A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce

$3,850 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First edition. 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,

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