Joyce, James | A stately plump edition

Joyce, James

Ulysses. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936

Large 8vo. Title-page printed in blue. Original vellum, spine gilt-lettered, Homeric bow after a design by Eric Gill in gilt on front and rear covers, top edges gilt, others uncut; a lovely, unfaded copy lacking the original slipcase. Green morocco folding case. 

First English edition (printed in England), one of 100 numbered copies signed by Joyce on mould-made paper and in this special binding, of an edition of 1,000 (this no. 54). With the prospectus laid in.

This edition prints the added material from the first authorized American edition (1934), along with the "International Protest and Injunction against Samuel Roth" (for pirating Ulysses), and the first bibliography of Joyce’s works.

The most elegant of the editions of the modernist classic.

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Slocum & Cahoon 23