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A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
Written by James Joyce. Illustrated by Robin Jacques.
Stock no. 1831227
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Illustrated Edition. The story of Stephen Dedalus, a boy growing up in Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century, as he gradually decides to cast off all his social, familial, and religious constraints to live a life devoted to the art of writing. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front board. 6 full-page b/w illustrations. 257 pages. Top edge green. Boards clean. Text block browned. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light browning to endpapers, else contents clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is grubby and edge-worn.