A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1917. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second printing (April, 1917) of the American edition (the first edition was published in December, 1916, preceding the English edition). Octavo. 299pp. Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Contemporary bookplate of Walter A. Donnelly on the front pastedown, and his ownership signature on the front fly, else very near fine in attractive very good or better second printing dustjacket with several old internal tape repairs, mostly at the folds, and not visible on the outside. The text of the second printing jacket appears to be identical to the text of the first printing (although laid out slightly differently), with "Second printing" overstamped in red on the front panel.

Joyce's landmark first novel. Huebsch printed 1250 sets of sheets for the first edition, selling 500 sets to England for the Egoist Press edition which was published later, thus the true first edition (in this case the American edition preceded the English) was 750 copies. We are unaware of the number of copies in the second printing, but it was likely to have been quite small, perhaps as few as 500 copies. Although the first edition is rare in jacket, we've at least seen a few jacketed copies. This is the first copy we've seen of the second printing in the appropriate jacket.