James Joyce: His First Forty Years
by Gorman, Herbert S
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1926. Later printing. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. [4], 238 pages. Tan paper covered boards with burgundy cloth spine. Paper title label on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Joyce and a photograph of the first page of Ulysses in text. A few spots and to the paper. The cloth spine is worn and a little faded. Toning to the right front flyleaf and rear flyleaf. "Isseido" small red bookseller label in the upper left corner of the front paste down. Number 168 hand written under the title page. A vertical line of Asian language characters written in light pen on the blank verso of the frontispiece. First published in New York by B. W. Huebsch 1924. Reissued by Viking Press and B. W. Huebsch in 1925. Published in England by Geoffrey Bles in 1926 with American sheets but a new title page (John Slocums' Bibliography of James Joyce page 76).
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- Bookseller
- Americana Books ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19709
- Title
- James Joyce: His First Forty Years
- Author
- Gorman, Herbert S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Geoffrey Bles
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- Biography
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