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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 1930
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James Joyce (1882-1941)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 1930
JOYCE, James Augustine Aloysius (1882-1941). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1930.
Author's presentation copy, inscribed just nine days before Joyce's death. The book itself, Joyce's earliest sustained experimental work, and the work which introduced his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is the Tauchnitz edition published in Leipzig in 1930 to secure copyright. See Slocum and Cahoon 13 note.
Octavo (161 x 114mm). Half-title 'Collection of British and American Authors. Vol. 4937' (faint marginal stain to p.293). Contemporary half roan over paper-covered boards (extremities lightly rubbed, joints more heavily). Provenance: author's presentation copy (inscribed in green ink on half-title 'Zurich 4.1.1491 [sic]' to:) – Gustav Zumsteg (1915-2005).
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 1930
JOYCE, James Augustine Aloysius (1882-1941). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1930.
Author's presentation copy, inscribed just nine days before Joyce's death. The book itself, Joyce's earliest sustained experimental work, and the work which introduced his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is the Tauchnitz edition published in Leipzig in 1930 to secure copyright. See Slocum and Cahoon 13 note.
Octavo (161 x 114mm). Half-title 'Collection of British and American Authors. Vol. 4937' (faint marginal stain to p.293). Contemporary half roan over paper-covered boards (extremities lightly rubbed, joints more heavily). Provenance: author's presentation copy (inscribed in green ink on half-title 'Zurich 4.1.1491 [sic]' to:) – Gustav Zumsteg (1915-2005).
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