JOYCE, James. Ulysses.

JOYCE, James. Ulysses.JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: John Lane the Bodley Head. 1936. Tall 8vo. Original green linen buckram, lettered in gilt to spine, Eric Gills Homeric bow illustration in gilt to upper board, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; pp. [xiii], [3], 765, [3]; cloth discoloured (especially at extremities) and stained, spine sunned, extremities and text block rubbed; light foxing internally, but generally clean; a good copy. First UK edition, no. 341 of 900

JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: John Lane the Bodley Head. 1936.

Tall 8vo. Original green linen buckram, lettered in gilt to spine, Eric Gill’s Homeric bow illustration in gilt to upper board, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; pp. [xiii], [3], 765, [3]; cloth discoloured (especially at extremities) and stained, spine sunned, extremities and text block rubbed; light foxing internally, but generally clean; a good copy.

First UK edition, no. 341 of 900 copies on japon vellum paper bound in linen buckram, from a total edition of 1,000.

The Bodley Head edition of Ulysses, the first published in the United Kingdom, includes the first Joyce bibliography as well as appendices concerning the obscenity case that had kept the work from British printers. Unsurprisingly for a book with such a chequered publication history, there are a number of typographical differences from earlier editions. Despite Joyce correcting the proofs while on holiday in Copenhagen in early 1936, several mistakes were later spotted. The bibliography, by Peter Pertzoff, had been submitted without further corrections or acknowledgment from Joyce. Pertzoff was apparently surprised to see it appear, inaccuracies and all, in this edition.

The typography and design was overseen by Allen Lane and Joyce’s representative Paul Léon. Eric Gill was commissioned to design the binding of this edition with its iconic Homeric bow on the upper board.

Slocum & Cahoon A23.

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