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JOYCE, James.
Ulysses.
Publisher: Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922
Stock code: 59671
Price: £85,000 Currency Conversion
First edition, first impression, one of 750 printed on handmade paper. The first edition of Ulysses is a notoriously vulnerable production. An uncommonly long work to begin with and published in an unusually large format, copies in the original wrappers in fine condition are very scarce. The present example is one of the best we have seen. The total edition was limited to 1,000 copies: in addition to 750 copies on handmade paper, there were 100 signed copies on thicker Dutch handmade paper numbered 1–100; and 150 large paper copies on verge d'Arches numbered 101–250.
Small quarto. Original blue wrappers, titles to upper wrapper in white, all edges untrimmed. Housed in a blue cloth solander box. Some minimal rubbing to the edges, wrappers very slightly toned but an absolutely beautiful copy, entirely unsophisticated and unusually bright and fresh. Exceptional.
