Joyce (James) Dubliners, second published English edition, contemporary pencil inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, spine a little darkened, a few minor marks to covers, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent copy, [Slocum & Cahoon A8n & A10n] 8vo, 1917 [but 1918].

⁂ The scarce second English edition, we know of only a handful of copies.

For the 1914 first edition of Dubliners (published only after an almost decade-long wait) Grant Richards decided to print 1,250 sets of sheets, of which around 500 were sent to B. W. Huebsch in the U.S. for the 1916 first American edition. A second American edition was published in 1917 by which time Grant Richards had run out of English sheets. Under pressure from Joyce (often a stickler when it came to others honouring contracts), Richards decided to publish just enough copies to satisfy the writer at a bare minimum of expense. This he did by importing sheets of the second America edition and binding them up as English copies. It is not known how many copies were produced in this fashion but only a handful have come to auction in the last 40 years.