Dubliners

by James Joyce

$125,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First American edition, utilizing English sheets, first printing of James Joyce's first prose work--a collection of short stories all unified by a common place, depicting Irish middle class. The stories were written while Irish Nationalism was at its peak and the search for a national identity was raging. The country was at a cultural crossroads which Joyce felt was responsible for a collective

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