Books and Manuscripts: A Summer Miscellany
Books and Manuscripts: A Summer Miscellany
Property of a German Collector
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Property of a German Collector
JOYCE, JAMES
ULYSSES. HAMBURG: THE ODYSSEY PRESS, 1932
8vo, 2 volumes in one, original green cloth, red speckled edges
First one-volume thin paper edition of the earliest "Definitive edition" of Joyce's great modernist novel, with the text revised by Stuart Gilbert at the author's request. Slocum & Cahoon note that the plates were probably destroyed in the allied bombing of Hamburg during the war.
LITERATURE:
Slocum & Cahoon A20
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