A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. London: Egoist Press, [1917]. First English Edition, American Sheets. Copyright, 1916, B.W. Huebsch. Printed in the United States of America.  Pp, 299. Publisher’s green cloth boards, upper cover ruled & lettered in blind, title in gilt (faded) to spine. Cloth scuffed & mottled, spine edges worn, contents pages in good condition.

Two newspaper ‘Review’ clippings from The Nation (February 1917) & the Times Literary Supplement (March 1917) pasted-in to front endpapers.

Joyce’s first novel was published in America by B.W. Huebsch from whom Harriet Shaw Weaver, the proprietor of the Egoist Press in London, purchased ‘not more than 750’ sets of sheets issuing this English edition in 1917. She had done so because English printers had been too timid to print the book in that year.

The first English sheets edition, published in 1918, is printed on thin paper and is distinguished easily from this American sheets edition which, being printed on thicker paper, is stouter in appearance.

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