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Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. B.W. Huebsch, New York, 1917.

Price: US$325.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 299 pages. Good only: cloth rubbed and stained; spine cloth and gilt faded. Front endpapers grubby, light soil/offsetting to rear ones along gutter. Light tideline and soil to first few leaves and to textblock edges.

Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada

JOYCE James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The Egoist Ltd, London, 1917.

Price: US$649.77 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Copyright page reads 'Copyright, 1916, by B.W.Huebsch, New York. First edition printed in the United States of America, 1916. Second edition, 1917'. 299pp. Green cloth boards w title to spine and front panel. A hint of tanning to page edges internally, both free eps lightly tanned and v slight split to both sets eps on hinge. Spine lightly darkened and bumped at head and foot, o/w a very good, tight, clean copy.

Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - 1st UK Issue on American Sheets. London Egoist, 1917.

Price: US$1299.55 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First UK Edition, First Issue 1917, American sheets, one of approximately 750 copies of Joyce's classic stream of consciousness work, his first novel. The first edition was printed in America and published by B.W. Huebsch in 1916, this is the first British edition made up of American sheets and published by The Egoist in 1917, "Copyright, 1916, by B.W. Huebsch - Printed in the United States of America" verso title page, iv, 299pp, recased retaining majority of original green cloth, renewed pastedowns and free endpapers. Internally all present including half title, and in excellent condition. Clean and fresh with no ownership markings not foxing. Slocum and Cahoon A12

Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom

JOYCE, James.. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.. London: Egoist Press, 1917, 1917.

Price: US$3248.86 + shipping

Description: First edition in book form, British issue, of the author's first novel, a landmark text in modernist literature. The novel was first serialized in the British literary magazine The Egoist from 1914 to 1915, before publication in book form in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch in New York. Harriet Shaw Weaver, the proprietor of the Egoist Press, purchased and bound some 750 sets of the US sheets, issuing them in London under the Egoist imprint. She subsequently printed a further edition in Britain the following year. Slocum & Cahoon A12. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Housed in custom green cloth solander box. Loosely inserted in box is a letter from the bookshop Elkin Mathews, 28 October 1922, regarding the sale of a copy of Joyce's Chamber Music, which they published. Cloth and inner hinges neatly restored, endpapers toned else contents clean; a good copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.. The Egoist Ltd, London, 1917.

Price: US$3800.00 + shipping

Description: First English edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel, one of about 1000 copies. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, which describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus. It was published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch, New York. The first British edition was published by the Egoist Press in February 1917. Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.. The Egoist Ltd, London, 1917.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Description: First English edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel, one of about 1000 copies. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, which describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus. It was published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch, New York. The first British edition was published by the Egoist Press in February 1917. Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. B.W. Huebsch, New York, 1917.

Price: US$12500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Second printing (April, 1917) of the American edition (the first edition was published in December, 1916, preceding the English edition). Octavo. 299pp. Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Contemporary bookplate of Walter A. Donnelly on the front pastedown, and his ownership signature on the front fly, else very near fine in attractive very good or better second printing dustjacket with several old internal tape repairs, mostly at the folds, and not visible on the outside. The text of the second printing jacket appears to be identical to the text of the first printing (although laid out slightly differently), with "Second printing" overstamped in red on the front panel. Joyce's landmark first novel. Huebsch printed 1250 sets of sheets for the first edition, selling 500 sets to England for the Egoist Press edition which was published later, thus the true first edition (in this case the American edition preceded the English) was 750 copies. We are unaware of the number of copies in the second printing, but it was likely to have been quite small, perhaps as few as 500 copies. Although the first edition is rare in jacket, we've at least seen a few jacketed copies. This is the first copy we've seen of the second printing in the appropriate jacket.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.