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Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The Viking Press, New York, 1925.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 299pp. Navy cloth cover with blind-stamped front title and gilt spine title, very slight sunning and slight gilt fading to the spine. Underlining, highlighting and notation throughout the text. Otherwise Very Good. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. BC
Seller: Voyageur Book Shop, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo; [iv], 299 pages, light blue cloth, fore-edges flare outward, inked poem penned to recto of rear free endpaper by Cindy Belles, who left her name discreetly on the front endpaper. Scarce. [Slocum & Cahoon A11 note, which cites this as the first time this work was co-published by Viking and Huebsch of the only 7 printings prior to The Modern Library edition of 1928].
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
James Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,. Viking Press & B.W. Huebsch, New York,, 1925.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American Edition, Sixth Printing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," by James Joyce, Viking Press & B.W. Huebsch, New York, 1925. First American Edition, Sixth Printing. An early printing of this classic work. This printing was one of the first for Viking Books. Book is in Very Good condition. "MCMXXV" on the title page. "Sixth Printing, September, 1925" on the copyright page. Lacking the dustjacket. This book was previously in the collection of David McCord, Boston poet and Harvard University fundraiser. 299pp. Bound in blue cloth with blind-stamped and gold lettering. Cover mildly worn, with sunning on the spine. The binding is sturdy. Previous owner (McCord) name and notation on the endpapers, as well as occasional marginalia throughout the text. A very good copy.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Viking Press, New York, 1925.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 299pp. A crisp, clean, very good or better copy in the publisher's blue cloth, stamped in blind on the front board, with gilt spine title. In the scarce dust jacket, also stating "Sixth Printing," with some small chips to the spine ends, darkening to the spine panel, and a medium piece flapping at the base of the spine (though intact); still very good and with no sophistications. Publisher's $2.00 price present on both the spine and the front flap. Joyce's first novel is very uncommon in the early printings, and this sixth overall American printing represents the first done by Viking, executed in the first year of that company's existence, and as such one of its first publications. Heubsch, which had published "Portrait" up to this point, was acquired by Viking that same year, and thus took over future reprints. Decidedly uncommon in dust jacket, and--while a notable edition on its own--certainly also an appealing placeholder for anyone saving their pennies for the first American printing in dust jacket, which will set one back five figures.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.