Neat contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown, bookseller's ticket (Gotham Book Mart) to rear pastedown. Housed in a custom blue quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in blind. Although the number of copies originally issued in America is unknown, it is unlikely to have been large since Huebsch had sold out by March 1917 and called for a second printing by April. He reserved from his print run about 750 sets of sheets for issue in the UK the following February. It was Huebsch who undertook the true first publication in book form, on 29 December 1916. First edition in book form, first printing, of Joyce's first novel, scarce in any state but especially rare retaining the dust jacket.ĭue at least in part to the hostile reaction to its serialization in The Egoist, no English printer would print the book for fear of prosecution under the obscenity laws.
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