{"product_id":"giacomo-joyce-james-joyce-1st-uk-edition","title":"Giacomo Joyce, James Joyce — 1st UK Edition","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"4\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003ePublication:\u003c\/b\u003e London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1968\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"5\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eFormatting:\u003c\/b\u003e 8vo, pp. [xxxi], 16, [4] plates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"6\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"6\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eCondition Report:\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"7\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eCatalogue Note:\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"8\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"9\"\u003eWritten around 1914 during his time in Trieste, \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"9\" data-index-in-node=\"55\"\u003eGiacomo Joyce\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"9\" data-index-in-node=\"473\"\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man\u003c\/i\u003e and the revolutionary leaps of \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"9\" data-index-in-node=\"544\"\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, offering a fleeting but intimate look into the vulnerabilities of one of the twentieth century's greatest literary minds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53953327464787,"sku":"4194-RM-F-VG-37","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20260605_160425.jpg?v=1780998400","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/giacomo-joyce-james-joyce-1st-uk-edition","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}