Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition third printing hardcover copy of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. First US Edition unstated 1916 F. W. Huebsch. Third Printing January 1918 stated.
Very Good hardcover with bright boards with a few spots and strong sheen present and a coffee cup stain on the front cover with the debossed title. Also with, strong gilt on the lightly sunned spine , light soiling on the top of the toned page blocks, mild spine tilt, rolled, rubbed and frayed spine ends, heavy edge wear and rounded and rubbed corners with no bare spots. The interior of the book is also in Good condition with the ghost of erased prices on the first free end paper and front paste down. There is also a small, vintage Bentano’s Bookstore label on the rear paste down. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
No dust jacket.
James Joyce’s first novel recounts the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus, the artistic alter-ego of Joyce himself. In an exuberantly inventive masterpiece of subjectivity, Joyce portrays his alter ego growing up in Dublin and struggling through religious and sexual guilt toward an aesthetic awakening.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an important contribution to literary modernism. One aspect of this innovativeness is Joyce’s use of age-appropriate syntax and vocabulary. The beginning of the novel, which starts in Stephen’s infancy, is mostly monosyllabic nonsense. As Stephen grows older and grasps more about the world and his place in it, the novel’s vocabulary and syntax become correspondingly complex.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
