Light rubbing at extremities otherwise a fine copy, bright and tight, in very good, restored jacket, loss to lettering on spine panel though all lettering unaffected on front and rear panels: a creditable example of a particularly rare jacket. Neat contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown, bookseller's ticket (Gotham Book Mart) to rear pastedown. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, autobiographical novel by James Joyce, published serially in The Egoist in 191415 and in book form in 1916 considered by many the greatest bildungsroman in the English language. Housed in a custom blue quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Introduction to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in blind. From birth to adolescence, the protagonist of the story, Stephen Dedalus, responds to his experiences throughout life with actions of rejection and isolation. by Car Seat Headrest Includes unlimited streaming via the Bandcamp app, plus download in mp3, FLAC and more. It was published in Dublin in 1916, its a semi-autobiographical novel. Although the number of copies originally issued in America is unknown, it is unlikely to have been large since Huebsch had sold out by March 1917 and called for a second printing by April. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is James Joyces second novel. He reserved from his print run about 750 sets of sheets for issue in the UK the following February. It was Huebsch who undertook the true first publication in book form, on 29 December 1916. His transformation is at time very interesting, such as his conversations and activities during school, and at other times very dull, such as him reminiscing. First edition in book form, first printing, of Joyce's first novel, scarce in any state but especially rare retaining the dust jacket.ĭue at least in part to the hostile reaction to its serialization in The Egoist, no English printer would print the book for fear of prosecution under the obscenity laws. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-biographical novel by James Joyce that showcases his rise from a timid and pious young man to an intelligent, skeptical college student.

A portrait of a young artist