A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First edition. 8vo. [iv], 299, [1] pages. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered in blind to the upper board, spine stamped in gilt; lacking dust jacket. Corners rubbed, minor edgewear, head and foot of spine pushed and worn, somewhat rubbed, minor soiling. Cream endpapers; pencil notations (some effaced) to the front endpapers. Internally generally clean and tight; minor scattered thumbsoiling, text block edges toned with minor soiling and wear. Item #410927
A landmark Modernist novel, and the author's first. First serialized in The Egoist, in 1914, it was first published in book form in New York by Huebsch on 29 December 1916 and then in London on 22 January, with the American sheets and a cancel title-page. Slocum & Cahoon A11.
Price: $4,500.00