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Cover of the first UK book edition of James Joyce's ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'', The Egoist Ltd., London, 1917. Immediate image source: [http://joyce.msk.ru/news/dw03/M103_lot266.jpg], linked at [http://joyce.msk.ru/works/joyce-po