8vo. Original blind-stamped blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt (spine ends and joints slightly rubbed, spine slightly soiled). 

FIRST EDITION OF JOYCE’S FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL, which appeared in serial form in The Egoist from February 1914 to September 1915. Joyce began the work in 1904, and it went through a series of radical changes before publication in 1916. “The prose moves forward in complexity from the child’s sensations at the beginning to the adolescent subtleties at the end,” and the novel’s modernism is apparent in its episodic format and concern with the consciousness of the protagonist (Connolly, The Modern Movement 26). New York publisher B. W. ("Ben") Huebsch was the only publisher daring enough to publish Joyce's novel unexpurgated in 1916. In England, it was rejected by twelve publishers, and the English edition was not published until 1917. Slocum and Cahoon A11.