The Maurice Neville Collection of Modern Literature (Part III)

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Lot 59
  • 59

Joyce, James

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Joyce, James
  • Ulysses. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, [1936]
  • vellum, ink
4to. Title-page printed in blue. Original vellum, spine gilt-lettered, Homeric bow in gilt on front and rear covers, top edges gilt, others uncut; slight natural discoloration on spine. Publisher’s decorative slipcase with printed label; some light wear.

Literature

Slocum and Cahoon A23

Catalogue Note

First English edition (printed in England), one of 100 numbered copies signed by Joyce on mould-made paper and in this special binding, of an edition of 1,000 (this no. 71). With the prospectus laid in. This edition prints the added material from the first authorized American edition (1934), along with the “International Protest and Injunction against Samuel Roth” (for pirating Ulysses), and the first bibliography of Joyce’s works. A fine copy in the elegant binding designed by Eric Gill.