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James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. B. W. Huebsch, New York, 1916.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing. Pencil ownership signature to front free endpage. Circular spot of toning to margins of pages 205-225. Front and rear hinges cracked with evidence of repair (see photos); now holding, though feel slightly loose. Rubbing to spine ends. Else a clean copy.

Seller: Open Boat Booksellers, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.

James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. B.W. Huebsch, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A., 1916.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1916 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION published in 1916 for the first time by B.W. Huebsch in New York. (The first English edition was published a year later because the English printers refused to print it on moral grounds.) Hard bound with blind stamped front board. No dust jacket. Wear to corners and edges. Hinges weak but holding. Fraying to upper spine edge. Rubbing to edges. Interior clean. A RARE 1916 FIRST US EDITION!

Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. B. W. Huebsch, New York, 1916.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A Very Good copy with bright gilt on the spine. Shelfwear to extremities. Front inner hinge starting, but holding. Some offsetting to front endpaper and early ownership signature to front pastedown. Page 16 with slight skinning affecting several lines of text. Joyce's first novel recounts the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus, the artistic alter-ego of Joyce himself. Stephen grows up ensconced in rigid institutions: the church, school system, family, and national politics. Feeling trapped, Stephen experiences a series of awakenings as he grows older and as a result of these awakenings, Stephen rejects these traditional bulwarks of Irish culture. Instead, he develops an aestheticism that will support his artistic vision. This rejection of existing communities and institutions, alongside his embrace of a new aestheticism, alienates Stephen from what he knows. Facing this alienation, Stephen decides to leave Ireland and pursue his art abroad. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an important contribution to literary modernism. One innovation is Joyce's use of age-appropriate syntax and vocabulary. The beginning of the novel, which starts in Stephen's infancy, is mostly monosyllabic nonsense. As Stephen grows older and grasps more about the world and his place in it, the novel's vocabulary and syntax become correspondingly complex. Of Joyce's first novel, H.G. Wells writes that "It is a mosaic of jagged fragments that does altogether render with extreme completeness the growth of a rather secretive, imaginative boy in Dublin. The technique is startling, but on the whole it succeeds." Very Good.

Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. B. W. Huebsch, New York, 1916.

Price: US$3850.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A Very Good+ copy with minor shelfwear to extremities. Spine toned. Rear inner hinge tender, but holding. Previous owner's bookplate to the front free endpaper. Joyce's first novel recounts the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus, the artistic alter-ego of Joyce himself. Stephen grows up ensconced in rigid institutions: the church, school system, family, and national politics. Feeling trapped, Stephen experiences a series of awakenings as he grows older and as a result of these awakenings, Stephen rejects these traditional bulwarks of Irish culture. Instead, he develops an aestheticism that will support his artistic vision. This rejection of existing communities and institutions, alongside his embrace of a new aestheticism, alienates Stephen from what he knows. Facing this alienation, Stephen decides to leave Ireland and pursue his art abroad. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an important contribution to literary modernism. One aspect of this innovativeness is Joyce's use of age-appropriate syntax and vocabulary. The beginning of the novel, which starts in Stephen's infancy, is mostly monosyllabic nonsense. As Stephen grows older and grasps more about the world and his place in it, the novel's vocabulary and syntax become correspondingly complex. Of Joyce's first novel, H.G. Wells writes that "It is a mosaic of jagged fragments that does altogether render with extreme completeness the growth of a rather secretive, imaginative boy in Dublin. The technique is startling, but on the whole it succeeds." Very Good +.

Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

JOYCE, James.. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.. B.W. Huebsch, New York., 1916.

Price: US$4548.41 + shipping

Description: First edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 299.Spine slightly dull and a bit rubbed at the ends. Corners also slightly rubbed. Very good. No dustwrapper.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. B.W. Huebsch, New York, 1916.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first printing. 299 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, blind stamped front board. A Near Fine copy with an owner inscription on top of first page, dated 1917; small faint stains to front board and top edge, little bit of rubbing to head and foot. No jacket. A very nice copy of the first novel by the innovative Irish writer, printed in the US before its British issue.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Huebsch, New York, 1916.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy. The book is bound in the publisher's blue cloth and is in great shape with minor wear to the spine. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. B.W. Huebsch, New York, 1916.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. [iv], 299, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition. First edition of Joyce's autobiographical novel, recounting the schooldays and emerging artistic consciousness of his alter-ego Stephen Dedalus. The novel was refused by Grant Richards (publisher of Dubliners), Secker, and Edward Garnett for Duckworth. Finally B.W. Huebsch agreed to take on the book, if Harriet Weaver, who had serialized the novel in The Egoist in 1914, would arrange for 750 copies to be published in London. It was published first in New York by Huebsch on 29 December 1916 and then in London on 22 January, with the American sheets and a cancel Egoist title-page. Slocum & Cahoon A11 Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and in blind on front cover. Some rubbing spine ends, and slightly on corners, one scratch to front cover near spine, not affecting blind stamp; very clean internally

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

JOYCE, James.. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.. New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916, 1916.

Price: US$5847.96 + shipping

Description: First edition in book form, first printing, of the author's first novel, a landmark work of modernist literature. Portrait was serialized in The Egoist between 2 February 1914 and 1 September 1915. Because of the hostile reaction to its serialization, and for fear of prosecution under British obscenity laws, no English publisher would print the book, and it was Huebsch who undertook the true first publication in book form. Huebsch reserved from his print run about 750 sets of sheets for issue in Britain the following February. Although the number of copies originally issued in America is unknown, it is unlikely to have been large, as Huebsch had sold out by March 1917 and called for a second printing in April. Slocum & Cahoon A12. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in blind. Housed in a custom black quarter morocco folding box. Gift inscription, dated 1947, to front free endpaper. Spine toned, cloth a little rubbed and marked, inner hinges cracked but sound, short closed tear to lower margin of title page, contents lightly toned but clean. A very good copy.

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

JOYCE, James.. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.. New York, B.W. Huebsch, 1916., 1916.

Price: US$6732.44 + shipping

Description: New York, B.W. Huebsch, 1916. 186 x 125 mm. 2 Bl., 299 Seiten. OLeinen. Bound in original blue publisher's cloth, lettered in blind and gilt. Rücken gebräunt, Kanten etwas berieben. First edition, frist printing. - Erste Ausgabe. - KLL IX, 7670. KNLL VIII, 914. - Mit dem autobiographisch geprägten Roman gelang Joyce die Revolution der modernen Literatur. Er schildert sein Leben von Kindesbeinen an bis zu dem Zeitpunkt, als er Irland als Student verläßt; dabei benutzt Joyce jeweils die dem Alter angepaßte Sprache. - Gutes Exemplar des seltenen Bandes. - "Stephen Dedalus describes his spiritual journey through his Jesuit education and petty bourgeois Dublin to forge through 'silence, exile and cunning' the 'uncreated conscience of his race.' Following close on 'Dubliner's' (for it appeared through 1915 as a serial in 'The Egoist') the portrait can be read either as an autobiography or a novel. A landmark in sensibility, the prose moves forward in complexity from the child's sensations at the beginning to the adolescent subtleties at the end" (Connolly). This is the first edition of the book published in New York in 1916. The first English edition (in 1917) was made up of American sheets because english printers would not accept the responsibility of printing it, on moral grounds. A Very good plus copy. Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***

Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Huebsch, New York, 1916.

Price: US$7500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing preceding the English edition, which was issued from the American sheets, by two months. A wonderful copy bound in the ORIGINAL blue cloth from the publisher. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with a hint of wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy. We buy Joyce First Editions.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916.

Price: US$10235.49 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy, the spine ends a little rubbed, but the gold on the spine still fresh. Small bookseller's label ("BRENTANO'S | Booksellers & Stationers | NEW YORK") on the lower pastedown, slight browning to the front free endpaper. It comes in a fine facsimile dustwrapper for the first English edition by the Egoist Press. This item is part of our Catalogue 10: James Joyce.

Seller: Yves G. Rittener - YGRbookS, Zürich, Switzerland

Joyce, James. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN - THE B.W. HUEBSCH FAMILY COPY. B.W. Huebsch, New York, 1916.

Price: US$32500.00 + shipping

Description: First Printing, preceding the British edition by roughly two months. Octavo (19.25cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; dustjacket; [iv],299,[1]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, hint of sunning to spine, rear hinge starting (but sound), with some faint, shallow staining to upper board edges; text is fresh, with the gilt titling bright and unrubbed; Very Good. In the original dustjacket, priced $1.50 net at mid-spine, with a brief holograph note in blue grease pencil at lower front panel, either in Huebsch's hand or someone at his office: "1st Ed – addtl. copy." Sunning to spine and panels, old dampstain affecting spine and upper edge of front panel, with shallow losses along the edges – the deepest of these affecting the "SCH" in the publisher's name at base of spine; several splits, tears, and attendant creases, a dozen of them skillfully (and nearly invisibly) mended on verso; Good to Very Good. Joyce's autobiographical first novel, first serialized in 25 installments in The Egoist between February 2, 1914 and September 1, 1915 by his great patron, Harriet Shaw Weaver. As for the book publication, she was unsuccessful at finding an English printer willing to assume the responsibility of setting the text – seven of them refused to do it, all on moral grounds. "Under English law, unlike American, the printing of immoral writings is as actionable as their publication" (Slocum & Cahoon, p.20). Weaver sent a copy of her Egoist serialization to New York bookseller Edmond Byrne Hackett, who in turn contacted B.W. Huebsch, who undertook the publication of Portrait, just as he had for Dubliners several weeks earlier. ".on 16 June (an emblematic date for Joyce) Benjamin Huebsch wrote to Miss Weaver with his proposal: publication of the complete novel, with sheets printed in the US going to the English publisher under joint imprints, the costs being shared.He was anxious, he said, to see Joyce properly launched in America, and Pound recommended that Huebsch's offer be accepted" (Bowker, Gordon. James Joyce: A New Biography, p.226).Through his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, Joyce "describes his spiritual journey through his Jesuit education and petty bourgeois Dublin to forge through 'silence, exile and cunning' the 'uncreated conscience of his race'.A landmark in sensibility, the prose moves forward in complexity from the child's sensations at the beginning to the adolescent subtleties at the end" (Connolly 26). The number of copies of the first printing is unknown, but a second was published in April, 1917, followed by three additional printings (1918-1922) before Huebsch merged his publishing house with the Viking Press. We know of no documented presentation copies of the American edition of Portrait; the present copy, likely one of a very few copies with distinguished provenance not already in institutional hands, was one of Benjamin Huebsch's own retained copies, left to his son, Ian Oscar Huebsch, then passed by inheritance to a family friend. Slocum & Cahoon 11.

Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.. The Egoist Ltd, London, 1916.

Price: US$40000.00 + shipping

Description: First English edition, second printing of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Beatrice Randegger. JamesÂJoyce. 25 Novembre 1919. Trieste." The recipient was a private student's of Joyce in Italy. In excellent condition with light rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. 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.. Huebsch, New York, 1916.

Price: US$72000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel, in the exceptionally rare dust jacket. Octavo, original blue cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with small chips and wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare especially in this condition, without any of the usual restoration usually encountered. 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. Huebsch, New York, 1916.

Price: US$90000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A fine first American edition in a near fine dust jacket with some minor restoration to inside of dj to hinges and some edges. Housed in custom-made fold-out case.

Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.