A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. by Joyce, James - 1916

New York: Huebsch, 1916. First edition of Joyce's classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel. Octavo, original blue cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. In excellent condition without the usual fade to the spine. From the library of Henry W. Keyes, with his signature to the front free endpaper along with his daughters. Keyes was the Governor of New Hampshire and a United States Senator and married to the writer Frances Parkinson Keyes. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A nice example with noted provenance. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, which describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus. It was published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch, New York. The first British edition was published by the Egoist Press in February 1917. Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.