JOYCE, James (1882-1941). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. London [and New York: B.W. Huebsch for] The Egoist Press LTD., 1916 [i.e. 1917].

8vo. (Tiny worm hole slightly affecting upper margin of half-title and title.) Original green cloth lettered in blind (spotting to covers, spine a bit toned, gilt perished from spine lettering); morocco-backed folding case. Provenance: F.E. Dinshaw (bookplate).

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION from the American sheets. Harriet Shaw Weaver's English issue was published on 12 February 1917 in no more than 750 copies with the sheets from the American first edition after English printers refused the responsibility of printing it. Slocum & Cahoon A12.