Dubliners. Hamburg, Paris, Milano: The Albatross, 1932. First Edition. Publisher’s yellow printed wrappers with black lettering. A fine bright copy.

The Albatross Modern Continental Library, Volume 1. The first Albatross edition of Dubliners and, significantly, the first paperback edition in English of Joyce’s only short story collection.

It is also notable as the inaugural volume in the Albatross Modern Continental Library, a series that ran to some four hundred titles by the 1950s.

The Albatross Press was founded in 1932 as a Penguin precursor, producing affordable mass-market paperbacks for continental readers