James Joyce’s Hundredth Birthday. Side and Front Views. A Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress March 10, 1982 by Richard Ellmann. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982. Pp 27. Green wrappers. A fine copy.

Frontispiece portrait of James Joyce by Brancusi.

Signed by the Author on title page, additionally inscribed on endpaper.

Richard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers. Ellmann’s James Joyce (1959), for which he won the National Book Award in 1960, is considered one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the 20th century.