James Joyce. Reset and reissued in its present form in May, 1968. Dust Jacket: None. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: The Viking Press, 1968. Introduction and notes by Eichard Ellman. Red cloth with grey spine and gold lettering. No markings or writing in the book, 16 pp. plus 4 facsimile pages and notes.
This is an autobiographical love story written by Joyce in Trieste, most likely around 1914, when he was 32. This is the same year in which he began "Ulysses, " wrote "Exiles" and completed "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It was not published until 1968, first in a limited edition; but there was much more interest in the work than anticipated, leading to a second, unlimited "trade" edition (OF WHICH IS, this copy), includes a two page B/W photo frontispiece of Joyce holding a guitar dressed in tie & buttoned vest taken by Ottocaro Weiss in Zurich, Switzerland 1915, soon after Joyce arrived there from Trieste.
