A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James - (1917)

London: The Egoist. Fair with no dust jacket. (1917). Hardcover. The first English edition from sheets printed in England. This edition was preceded by an earlier English edition from American sheets [Reference: Slocum and Cahoon 13]. Copyright page has: "Copyright, 1916, By B. W. Huebsch, New York. First edition printed in the United States of America, 1916. Second Edition, 1917. Visiter Printing Works, Southport." Title page imprint: "The Egoist Ltd. 23 Adelphi Terrace House W. C. London". Original green cloth boards with gilt title on spine and blind-stamped title on front board. [vi], 299 pages. Page dimensions: 182 x 119mm. A 3 1/2" tear to cloth along lower part of front joint. Cloth frayed and torn along both ends of spine. A couple of <1/2" vertical tears to cloth at head of spine, with slight loss of cloth. A few marks to cloth. Corners bruised. No loss of cloth at corners of boards. Internally good. No signatures. Narrow split to gutter between the half-title and the title pages. No splitting to gutters at endpapers. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .