Ulysses by James Joyce, First Edition, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922, presented by Pom Harrington.
You can view our first edition of Ulysses on our UK site here.
Small quarto. Original blue wrappers, titles to cover in white. Housed in a custom blue solander box with metal clasps. Wrappers a little rubbed, dulled, and very lightly creased at corners, a little faint foxing to edges, spine ends torn, small tear to front hinge around stitching and to head of p. 599. An excellent copy.
First edition, first printing, number 546 of 750 copies printed on vergé à barbes stock, from a total edition of 1,000 copies. Ulysses was published in imitation of the traditional three-tiered French format aimed at both connoisseurs and readers: 100 copies were printed on Dutch handmade paper and signed by Joyce; 150 large paper copies were printed on heavier vergé d’Arches, and the remaining 750 copies formed this slightly smaller format trade issue.
