Stephen Hero
by James Joyce
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine /Very Good
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, United States
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About This Item
New Directions. New Directions, New York, 1955. Hardcover. Condition: Fine as though purchased today in unblemished uniform vanilla pages. Dust Jacket: Very Good with browned (from blue) spine and a 2cm triangle of same to top left corner of front cover from sun exposure, yet still Bright all elsewhere with Deep Black lettering and blue. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in pale yellow cloth, in a Very Good blue green dust jacket, not price-clipped. Edited by Theodore Spencer from the Manuscript in the Harvard College Library. . Fine. Hardcover. 1955.
Synopsis
Stephen Hero is a posthumously-published autobiographical novel by Irish author James Joyce. Its published form reflects only a portion of an original manuscript, part of which was lost. Many of its ideas were used in composing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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Details
- Bookseller
- J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011097
- Title
- Stephen Hero
- Author
- James Joyce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints
Biblio member since 2019
Garrison, New York
About J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints
We are a 50 year old, third generation antiquarian bookshop nestled in the bucolic Hudson Highlands of New York's historic Hudson Valley, less than a mile from a transverse of the Appalachian Trail. While we have strong first edition literature and poetry collections, we specialize in New York, history, and Americana. We are a proud member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA).
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