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Ulysses

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Stock Code 107329

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936

One of 100 numbered copies bound & signed by Joyce. Indubitably the best-produced edition of Ulysses; a sumptuous copy of a spectacular book. The text of the Bodley edition was taken from that of the Odyssey Press printing of 1932, which had been edited by Stuart Gilbert but with some corrections. It remained the standard text until the revised 1962 edition. Additionally Lane reproduced, in the appendices, Joyce's famous letter to Cerf and importantly the landmark 'decision' by the great Judge John M. Woolsey, who's ruling lifted the ban in the USA on this masterpiece, which in turn lead to its universal acceptance. Indeed the 1936 printing in the UK was a test of the British authorities and, as no ban followed publication in 1937, Lane published a trade edition and Ulysses was never again out of print in the UK.

First edition printed in the UK, one of 100 numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author from an overall limitation of 1000; 4to; internally fine, probably unread; publisher's full vellum, with Homeric bow designed by Eric Gill to upper board gilt, titles to spine gilt, original card slip-case, Curwen Paper covering, title label to side giving the limitation number (87), minimally rubbed with some spotting to the label, preserved in a blue solander box, slightly worn, a very good copy indeed.

Slocum & Cahoon A23.
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Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper.

Our Bookshop and Gallery can be found in the heart of Mayfair at 106 New Bond Street, where most of our stock is available to view and on public display.

We exhibit at major international art fairs, including TEFAF (Maastricht and New York), Frieze Masters, Art Miami and Masterpiece London, as well as antiquarian & rare book fairs including New York, Paris, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Hong Kong.

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Ulysses

JOYCE, James.

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