Dubliners. Pennsylvania. The Franklin Library. 1980. Illustrated with plates. Publisher’s decorative full red leather boards, raised bands, all edges gilt, moire silk endpapers, satin ribbon place-marker. A fine copy.

Limited Edition, exclusively for subscribers to ‘The Collected Stories of the World’s Greatest Writers.’ 

Written for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness, the stories stand beside those of Chekhov and De Maupassant. ‘The Dead’, is regularly cited as the greatest work of short fiction in English.