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New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, utilizing English sheets, first printing of James Joyce's first prose work--a collection of short stories all unified by a common place, depicting Irish middle class. The stories were written while Irish Nationalism was at its peak and the search for a national identity was raging. The country was at a cultural crossroads which Joyce felt was responsible for a collective paralysis. He conceived of Dubliners as a "nicely polished looking-glass"held up to the Irish and a "first step towards [their] spiritual liberation." Bound in publisher's blue-green cloth stamped in green; one of 504 sets of sheets, which were imported by Huebsch from the British publisher Grant Richards. Title page is a cancel printed on laid paper with "Utopian" watermark. 278pp. Near Fine, textblock edge lightly dust-soiled and with a faint stain to the bottom edge, pages tanned. In the incredibly rare original dust…

Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle-class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.

Look for the publishing details which indicate 'Grant Richards Ltd, 1914' with no mention of subsequent printings.