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Joyce, James
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description
- Joyce, James
- Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922
- Ink and paper; morocco leather
8vo. Original blue wrappers with white title; two tiny spots of color retouching on spine, another at spine end alongside an unobtrusively repaired tear to spine wrapper, but with the wrappers fresh and interior clean, a very handsome copy and unusually unrubbed except for a few intermittent spots along joints. Blue half morocco and gilt case.
Literature
Connolly 42, Slocum and Cahoon A17
Catalogue Note
first edition of the 20th century's great novel, number 875 from the issue of 750 on linen, from a total edition of 1,000 copies.
"....[Ulysses] does achieve greatness like a ruined temple soaring from a jungle - and should be judged perhaps as a poem, a festival of the imagination..." (Connolly)