Dubliners.

£18,750 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

From a total printing of 1250 some 506 sets of sheets were sent to Huebsch for publication in the US, making this copy one of just 746 of the earliest issue of Joyce's Dubliners . Once described by Graham Greene as the greatest book of short fiction to have ever been written, copies in presentable condition are exceptionally rare. First edition, first impression; 8vo; light bleed from cloth to pastedowns, some marks to rear pastedown, occasional trivial offsetting; publisher's red cloth boards, gilt lettering, slight bloom to upper board, a few marks to lower board, top corner of upper board a little bumped; 278pp. Slocum Cahoon A8.

• Binding: Hardcover

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