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JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , in: The Egoist. An Individual Review . London: Robert Johnson and Co. for The New Freewoman Ltd., 1914-1915, vol I, no.1-vol II, no.12. 36 issues bound in 2 volumes, 2° (320 x 206mm and 331 x 220mm). Contemporary blue half morocco, gilt edges (vol.II incorrectly titled on spine as June 1915-Dec 1915, extremities worn). FIRST EDITIONS. THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF A PORTRAIT . Connolly The Modern Movement 26; Slocum and Cahoon Joyce C46. Ezra POUND. 'James Joyce. At Last the Novel Appears' in: The Egoist. An Individual Review . London: Robert Johnson and Co. for The New Freewoman Ltd., February 1917, vol IV, no.2, pp.21-22. 2° (327 x 229mm). Woodcut portrait of Joyce by Roald Christian. (Lightly browned.) Original wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Publication details are included in a note on p.21 (' A Portrait [...] by James Joyce. The Egoist Ltd. Ready now, price 6s') and an order form for A Portrait is printed on p.32. Gallup Pound C246. [The Egoist (publisher)] Extracts from Some Press Notices of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce . London: Leveridge and Co. for the Egoist Press, [1917]. 8° bifolium (218 x 141mm). FIRST EDITION. SCARCE. A collection of quotations from reviews in the British, Irish, Continental and American Press including Ezra Pound's from The Egoist , H.G. Wells's from The Nation and Carlo Linati's from Il Convegno . Another similar 4-page leaflet [?Zurich: ?Joyce, ?1917] was also printed: in this, the quotation from Pound's review ran for nine lines. Cf. Gallup Pound C246 (noting the publication of this pamphlet). THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN --'A LANDMARK OF SENSIBILITY' (Connolly). Together with Pound's review and the scarce Extracts from Some Press Notices . Joyce sent the first chapter of A Portrait , together with Dubliners , to Ezra Pound, who replied in a letter of 19 January 1914 that he would be able to persuade Dora Marsden, the then editor of The Egoist (succeeded by Harriet Shaw Weaver on 1 July 1914) to print it. As a prelude to its publication, Pound included in his review column letters from and to Joyce concerning the difficulties of getting Dubliners published ('A Curious History', in: The Egoist , vol.I, no.2, 15 January 1914, pp.26-7). Serialization of A Portrait began on 2 February 1914 (vol.I, no.3) and it ran to 1 September 1915 (vol.II, no.9): however, it was not printed between 15 September and 16 November 1914 (vol.I, no.3-vol.II, no.9), when, due to the war, Joyce was unable to get the manuscript sent from Trieste, and no instalment was included in the special Imagist issue of 1 May 1915 (vol.II, no.5). The text of the serialization is substantially the same as that of the first edition (New York: 1916) but it did not include the opening pages of Chapter III. Through Joyce's association with The Egoist , where he was 'discovered and coddled by Pound, [and] mothered by Miss Weaver, he managed not only to finish A Portrait of the Artist but also to begin to write Exiles and Ulysses ' (Ellmann Joyce , p.355). (4)