28th Jan, 2020 10:00

Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 63
 
Lot 63 - Joyce (James) Ulysses, First English edition...

Joyce (James) Ulysses, First English edition (printed in France), NUMBER 23 OF 2000 COPIES, handmade paper, some toning and spotting, modern half morocco, gilt-tooled, lacking original blue wrappers, new endpapers, rear endpapers coming loose, 4to, printed by John Rodker from the original plates, Egoist Press, Paris, 1922.  *** Due the book's censoring, over 500 copies of this edition were allegedly seized and destroyed by officials on both sides of the Atlantic. Not including the errata: “As work on compiling the errata list was not finished in October, the eight page list of corrections… was not available for the first copies produced and sold.” - Sam Slote, 'Ulysses in the Plural', 2004.

Sold for £900

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