James Joyce. 
 
B.W. Huebsch: 1917. Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. A few stains on the front and back boards. Sunning on the spine. Bumps on the corners of the boards and crown and heel of the spine. A stain or two on the text block. Moderate soiling on the endpapers. Leaves are toned brown by time but otherwise clean. A couple of pages have tears less than an inch long on the top of the leaf near the gutter. Production error for the text block that left a few leaves larger than the others. 288 pages. Very good. 
 
Joyce was an unknown when Dubliners was published, so even this second printing is scarce because of the small publishing run for the first few editions. Looking back, this modest look perfectly announces the stories that would define literature for a century. A set of stories about humble lives shaken by glimpses of truth, famously known as the epiphanies, with every word perfectly chosen. 
 
"She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue."