Ulysses.
$34,198 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed
Paris: Shakespeare and Company,, 1922. It soared, a bird, it held its flight... soaring high, high resplendent First edition, number 418 of 750 copies on handmade paper numbered 251 to 1,000. This attractive copy is finely bound, retaining the distinctive original blue wrappers at the front and rear. The edition was published on 2 February 1922 in imitation of the traditional three-tiered French format, which was aimed at both connoisseurs and general readers. It consisted of 100 signed copies on Dutch handmade paper, 150 large-paper copies printed on heavier vergé d'Arches, and 750 copies on vergé à barbes, which formed the trade issue. One of the key texts of 20th-century modernist literature, Ulysses also proved a major test case for laws of freedom of expression. "Forced underground by censors,... this was a cryptoclassic already before it was read, a subversive colossus" (Sherry, p. 1). Its creator is considered one of the great geniuses of modern literature: "Joyce, not to mince words, is Ireland's Shakespeare, its Goethe, its Racine, its Tolstoy" (Sutherland). Small quarto (234 x 184 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in greenish blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, quintuple gilt ruled border to spines and covers, turn-ins ruled in gilt, cream endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original wrappers bound in. Housed in a matching leather entry slipcase by the Chelsea Bindery. A fine copy. Horowitz, Census, p. 121; Slocum & Cahoon A17. Brian Patrick Duggan,
- Year: 1922
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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