JOYCE, JAMES Ulysses.
Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1922. First edition, number 817 of 750 copies on handmade paper (from the edition of 1000). Publisher's blue wrappers, the upper cover lettered in white, housed in a cloth chemise and slipcase. 9 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches (23.8 x 19 cm); 732 pp. A worn but unrestored copy with the upper cover detached, marginal chips and a two inch tear into the right edge, the spine largely perished, the rear wrapper with small losses to extremities including along spine, the contexts generally clean, a small later portrait of Joyce tipped-in to verso of free endpaper.

First edition of the most influential modernist novel of the 20th century, retaining the painstakingly dyed blue wrappers designed to resemble the Greek flag. Slocum & Cahoon A17

C The Collection of Erica Jong and Ken Burrows

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