First edition, first printing, number 233 of 150 large paper copies numbered between 101 and 250.
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 copies were printed on heavier vergé d’Arches to create this large paper format; and the remaining 750 copies formed a small format trade issue, printed on less expensive vergé à barbes stock.
Bought by C. E. Fritze Hofbokhandel and bound for the bookseller by Östermalms bokbinderi, this copy was recorded in Sylvia Beach’s notebook as having been sent on 24 May 1922. As such, it is the first Ulysses to be imported to Sweden; copies of the work were generally hard to find in Scandinavia throughout the 1920s and 1930s (Riikonen, “Blooms in the North”, in The Reception of James Joyce in Europe, p. 130).
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