Giacomo Joyce, James Joyce — 1st UK Edition

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Giacomo Joyce, James Joyce — 1st UK Edition

Name: Giacomo Joyce, James Joyce — 1st UK Edition
Brand: Broadhursts Books
SKU: 4194-RM-F-VG-37
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Publication: London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1968

Formatting: 8vo, pp. [xxxi], 16, [4] plates.

Condition Report: Very Good. The book presents beautifully in its original dust jacket, which shows only mild uniform toning to the panels and trivial rubbing to the extremities, retaining its striking green hue without the heavy sun-fading to the spine. The underlying cloth binding remains tight and square, with sharp corners and unbumped head and tail spine ends. Internally, the text block is commendably bright and crisp; the pages, including the preliminary leaves and the delicate fold-out facsimile inserts, are entirely free from foxing, oxidation, or previous ownership inscriptions, ensuring a highly readable and aesthetically pleasing copy.

Catalogue Note: First UK Trade Edition, following the limited American edition published by the Viking Press earlier that same year. The original manuscript, a deeply personal notebook, was a closely guarded document that was not released for publication by the Joyce estate until nearly three decades after the author's death.

The edition is notably enriched by the scholarly introduction and comprehensive notes provided by the preeminent Joyce biographer, Richard Ellmann. It also includes several facsimile reproductions of the original handwritten manuscript pages, allowing readers a visual glimpse into Joyce's compositional process and penmanship. Copies with an unfaded dust jacket and such internally pristine pages remain uncommon.

Written around 1914 during his time in Trieste, Giacomo Joyce is a profound, poetic, and fiercely autobiographical prose-poem detailing James Joyce's infatuation with a young, aristocratic Jewish pupil, Amalia Popper. Comprising a series of intense, fragmented vignettes—or "epiphanies"—the work explores themes of illicit desire, the fleeting passage of youth, and the voyeuristic gaze of the artist. It serves as a vital stylistic bridge between the completion of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the revolutionary leaps of Ulysses, offering a fleeting but intimate look into the vulnerabilities of one of the twentieth century's greatest literary minds.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: James Joyce

Book Publisher: Faber and Faber

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Fiction

Genre: Poetry

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 47

Book Publication Year: 1968

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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