Stephen Hero
by James Joyce
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Boynton Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Stephen Hero, James Joyce. First American edition.
Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped jacket with original price ($3.50) still intact. In mylar protective wrapper. Has two small pieces missing on top/bottom of jacket spine. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: A New Directions Book, 1944. Has former owner name and inscription on flyleaf and a small bookshop sticker on same page. Otherwise, no writing or markings in the book, 234 pp.
One of 3,000 copies printed. Edited from the manuscript in the Harvard College Library by Theodore Spencer.
An attractive copy. An early draft of "Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man," published posthumously. The British edition preceded the American by a few months.
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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- Bookseller
- Burning Tree Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BTB00275
- Title
- Stephen Hero
- Author
- James Joyce
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A New Dimensions Book
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Pages
- 234
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- First edition, Stephen Hero, James Joyce
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