Ulysses.
$37,678 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
London.: John Lane / The Bodley Head., 1936.. Original publisher's full vellum designed by Eric Gill with gilt bow vignette to front and rear boards, cream endpapers, title gilt to spine, a.e.g., original patterned paper-covered board slipcase with white paper label with printed titles and matching copy number in ink.. Large 8vo. (264 x 204 mm).. Half-title, printed title in blue and black, leaf with justification and production credits verso, leaf with list of 'Previous Editions of 'Ulysses'', leaf with details of the appendices and Joyce's text concluding 'Trieste-Zürich-Paris, 1914-1921' and appendices. The deluxe issue of the first edition of Joyce's magnum opus to be printed in Great Britain. From the edition limited to 1,000 copies, with this one of 100 on mould-made paper in the deluxe vellum binding designed by Eric Gill and signed and numbered by Joyce; the original slipcase features matching numbering to the book. This authoritative edition of 'Ulysses', the first to be published in Great Britain, features Joyce's corrected text (see below), details of the seven previous editions and their fates where applicable (for example for the Egoist Press edition '499 copies were seized by the Customs Authorities, Folkestone') and detailed appendices concerning the protests, injunctions and trials relating to the publication of the book and a bibliography of works by Joyce. Written over a seven year period during Joyce's peripatetic tour of Trieste, Zurich and Paris (where it
- Publisher: John Lane / The Bodley Head.
- Year: 1936
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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