Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition third printing hardcover copy of A Portrait by James Joyce. First US Edition unstated 1916 F. W. Hebsch. Third Printing January 1918 stated.
Very Good+ hardcover with bright boards with a few spots and strong sheen present, strong ink on spine title and front board initials, clean page blocks, no spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear and bumped corners. No marks or inscriptions inside. Pages clean and bright. Appears unread.
Very Good un-clipped dust jacket with mild surface wear and heavy edge wear and chips and gaps, mostly on the top spine end. Looks nice in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Considered to be the greatest 20th century novel written in English. It is a disillusioned study of estrangement, paralysis and the disintegration of society.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
