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Joyce, James
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description
- Joyce, James
- Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922
- paper
8vo (263 x 205mm.), first edition, number 199 of 1000 copies of which this is one of 150 copies on vergé d'Arches paper, original blue paper wrappers with lettering in white, collector's green morocco-backed folding box, some minor colour restoration to spine, morocco booklabel and offsetting from booklabel
Literature
Slocum and Cahoon A17
Catalogue Note
A lovely copy of the larger and more unusual 1/150 issue of the greatest novel of modern times.
As noted in Sylvia Beach's Ulysses notebook (see Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, James Joyce - Books and Manuscripts, 1996), this copy was originally sold to the firm of Bickers and Son on 3 April 1922. Bickers and Son were known as publishers although there was also a branch of the firm which operated a bindery. The large paper issue (150 copies) of the first edition is of a larger size than the other two issues (100 signed copies and 750 copies on handmade paper).