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Joyce, James
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description
Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922
In 4s (9 3/8 x 7 5/8 in.; 239 x 194 mm, uncut). Publisher's "Greek flag" blue printed wrappers; some wear at extremities, spine chipped at edges and somewhat frayed. Blue buckram folding-case, morocco gilt lettering-piece on spine.
In 4s (9 3/8 x 7 5/8 in.; 239 x 194 mm, uncut). Publisher's "Greek flag" blue printed wrappers; some wear at extremities, spine chipped at edges and somewhat frayed. Blue buckram folding-case, morocco gilt lettering-piece on spine.
Literature
Slocum & Cahoon A17
Catalogue Note
First edition. Copy 878; one of 760 numbered copies on handmade paper (of a whole edition of 1000). Laid in is the Shakespeare and Company flyer announcing the publication of Ulysses for Autumn 1921 and with the rue Dupuytren address scored through and replaced in holograph by the rue de l'Odéon address.
A landmark of modern literature, "the book of the century" in critic Hugh Kenner's estimation. This opinion was shared by Ezra Pound, who resorted to more graphic language to express his admiration: "All the fuggs, all the fœtors, the whole boil of the European mind has been lanced."