New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916. First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, front board lettered in blind, spine lettered in gilt, spine sunned, joints and spine ends rubbed, extremities a bit darkened, joints starting. Slocum & Cahoon A11

First edition of Joyce's first published novel, which first appeared in serial form in The Egoist, from February 1914 to September 1915. He began working on the novel in 1904, and it underwent a series of radical changes before its publication in 1916. “The prose moves forward in complexity from the child’s sensations at the beginning to the adolescent subtleties at the end,” and the novel’s modernism is apparent in its episodic format and concern with the consciousness of the protagonist (Connolly, The Modern Movement 26).