Item #000010594 My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years. Stanislaus Joyce.

My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years

New York: The Viking Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xxii, [2], 3-266 pp. Quarter green cloth over green paper boards with gold lettering on the spine; green topstain. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a plate, a photograph of the author in 1905 on the recto, a photograph of the author in 1955 on the recto. Stanislaus Joyce was three years younger than James Joyce, and the brothers were very close. Joyce's biography of his brother ends with James Joyce's 22nd year. Stanislaus Joyce records observations of the Joyce family, their life in Ireland, the exile in Trieste, and the adventures he and James Joyce engaged in during their youth. A beautiful copy of an important literary biography. Very near Fine / Fine. Item #000010594

A touch of fading to the topstain.

Price: $100.00

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