Ulysses

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Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First Edition, First Printing. Original blue printed wrappers. 4to. This is number 986 of the edition of 750 numbered copies of a total edition of 1000 copies (+ some more described below). Very minor wear to extremities of the spine and some slight toning to the wrappers, else a lovely copy: uncut, mostly unopened and completely untouched by any restorer. Small contemporary portrait of Joyce by C. Rup mounted on the recto of the half-title (taken from the original subscriber's form, which is in itself very rare) together with the neat signature of Frank Layton, who bought this copy on the 16th of March in 1922 according to Sylvia Beach's "Ulysses" Notebook. There are six known versions of the first edition of Ulysses: 1. Unbound proofs. 2. Review copies that came without the famous blue wrappers. 3-5. The three editions of the published version: 100 signed (3); 150 on large paper (4); 750 regular copies numbered like the one we are offering here (5). 6. There are some unnumbered copies - most prominently the one inscribed to the printer Darantiere - hors commerce. Please note that any copy of the first edition of Ulysses in its original condition is flimsier than any paperback you have ever owned: the book is heavy, the folded blue paper front and back covers only strengthened by a sheet of paper and the spine directly glued on to the book. This copy formed part of the Allan D. McGuire Collection of Cyril Connolly's "The Modern Movement - 100 Key Books from England, France and America 1880-1950" and was also exhibited in the "Allspace in a Notshall" Exhibition in Zürich in 1991. It comes with a beautiful three-quarter morocco slipcase and all the documentation of provenance and exhibtion. The Book of Books on any list of modern fiction (even after 100 years) and a great and funny read at that, which comes here in beautiful condition and with a full record of provenance. It is part of our Catalogue 10: James Joyce. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000171

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