Four Dubliners. Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett. Washington: Library of Congress, 1986. First Edition. Pp, x, 106. Illustrated with portrait plates. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Covers lightly faded otherwise a fine copy.

Signed by the Author on title page, additionally inscribed on endpaper. 

Richard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers. Ellmann’s James Joyce (1959), for which he won the National Book Award in 1960, is considered one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the 20th century.