The Essential James Joyce. With an Introduction and Notes by Harry Levin. London: Jonathan Cape, 1948. First Edition. Pp 534. Red cloth boards, in dust jacket. Jacket lightly faded, overall a nice bright copy.

A collection of four of Joyce’s works, Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, Exiles and Chamber Music, together with representative extracts from Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake & Pomes Pennyeach. Supplemented with critical and explanatory notes by Harry Levin.