James Joyce. First American edition. Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped jacket with original price ($3.50) still intact. In mylar protective wrapper. Has two small pieces missing on top/bottom of jacket spine. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: A New Directions Book, 1944. Has former owner name and inscription on flyleaf and a small bookshop sticker on same page. Otherwise, no writing or markings in the book, 234 pp.
One of 3,000 copies printed. Edited from the manuscript in the Harvard College Library by Theodore Spencer.
An attractive copy. An early draft of "Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man," published posthumously. The British edition preceded the American by some months.
