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James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The Egoist, London, 1917.
Price: US$237.29 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Second edition 1917, original cloth, requiring restoration, inner hinges weak/cracked, remains of old library label attached inside, corners & edges rubbed in place, slightly out of shape, photos available on request.
Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom
James Joyce. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN. London: The Egoist, 1917.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second English edition, the first bound from sheets printed in England. Publishers dark green cloth, spine titles in gilt cover titles and ruled in blind. A very sharp, fresh copy with reasonably bright spine titles, entirely free of any former owner marking. A superior collectors copy. Pictures supplied upon request. (hall case)
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
JOYCE, James.. A portrait of the artist as a young man. Second edition.. The Egoist, London,, 1917.
Price: US$623.09 + shipping
Description: 185x125mm, 299pages, Full green cloth. Title and autor gilged on the spine of the book. Title passed on the front panel. Both backstrips of the binding slighty pressed and starting to crack, otherwise book in fair condition, firm binding. Initial of previous owner on top of the front page. En cas de problème de commande, veuillez nous contacter via notre page d'accueil / If there is a problem with the order, please contact us via our homepage.
Seller: Bouquinerie du Varis, Russy, FR, Switzerland
JOYCE James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The Egoist Ltd, London, 1917.
Price: US$641.34 + 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. The Egoist Ltd., London, 1917.
Price: US$833.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A perfectly reasonable copy without any significant fault except the seriously dulled condition of the gilt lettering on the spine. Light rubbing to extremities; top of spine a little tender.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Price: US$1154.41 + 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. The Egoist Ltd, 1917.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition with use of UK sheets of which about 1,000 copies were printed. This copy was preceded by a UK edition using US sheets. The first US edition was published before the first UK edition in 1916. Book very good, tanning on spine, front and rear free end papers discolored, very slightly leaning. Housed in a custom-made slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: First English edition, from American sheets. [iv], 300 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A very sharp copy of this core work by Joyce, here in the earliest London edition, using American sheets from the Huebsch printing because English publishers refused to print the text. Slocum & Cahoon A12. Provenance: James Gilvarry; Carol Z. Rothkopf Original dark green cloth, upper cover titled in blind, spine titled in gilt. Very slightly bumped at spine ends. George Heron Milne bookplate. Near fine. Green cloth box First English edition, from American sheets.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
JOYCE, James.. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.. London: Egoist Press, 1917, 1917.
Price: US$3206.68 + 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 Joyceâs 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 Joyceâs 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.
JOYCE, James.. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.. London: Egoist Press, 1917, 1917.
Price: US$35273.51 + shipping
Description: First edition to be printed in Britain, inscribed by the author, "To George and Mary Slocombe, James Joyce, Paris 7. i. [1]926" on the half-title. George Slocombe was an English journalist writing for the American papers. Joyce asked Sylvia Beach to send him a press copy of Ulysses, and he was among its first reviewers, telling the readers of the Daily Herald that it was "as large as a telephone directory or a family Bible, and with many of the literary and social characteristics of each". Joyce's inscriptions usually appear on the front free endpaper; in this copy, however, that space was already taken by the ownership inscription, dated and located "Paris 1921" of Allan Ross "Dougie" MacDougall (1893-1956), a gay expatriate Scotsman in Paris, friend, and later biographer, of Isadora Duncan. In the early 1920s MacDougall had a regular column in the Chicago Tribune and he and Slocombe shared a close mutual friend in Edna St Vincent Millay. Presumably MacDougall gave the book to Slocombe, who then asked Joyce to inscribe it. Portrait was serialized in the English literary magazine The Egoist in 1914 and 1915, and first published as a book in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch of New York, from whom Harriet Shaw Weaver, proprietor of the Egoist Press, purchased and bound some 750 sets of the US sheets, issuing them in London under the Egoist imprint. This second edition is the first to be printed in Britain. Presentation copies of this printing are rare and examples with such intriguing Parisian provenance are exceptional. Slocum & Cahoon A12. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to front board in blind and to spine in white. Housed in a navy blue morocco backed bookform folding case by the Chelsea Bindery. Spine heavily toned and somewhat rolled, some toning around margins within, but still a sound copy in good condition.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom