ulysses di joyce james, Copia autografata (38 risultati)

First Edition. THE BACKGROUNDS OF ULYSSES, Kenyon College, 1954, first edition, some light tanning and soiling to the covers, else vg+ in wraps as issued. A scarce separate off-print from the Kenyon Review, this copy INSCRIBED by the author to the former premier Walt Whitman collector, bibliophile and philanthropist, Charles Feinberg.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Signed and dated by Danis Rose on a label affixed to the title page. ".a completely redesigned and comprehensively edited text of James Joyce's masterpiece." Octavo: lxxxiii, 739 p. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. [Belgium]: [Die Keure], 2006. Produced as a conceptual art project nominated for the Beck's Future Prize, this is based on the 1922 edition of Joyce's seminal modern work. The artist has alphabetized Joyce's words into a long list of letters and punctuation. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition, which was LIMITED to 1000 copies, SIGNED and NUMBERED by the artist. This is copy number 728. Published in green wraps; a tiny bit of rub at the margins. In an archival plastic protector. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 65. ; . Wolfhound Press, Dublin, 1986. First edition, a fine copy in the dust wrapper. Presentation inscription from the author to the publisher of the front end paper, thanking him for his assistance. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. John Vernon Lord (illustratore). Thick 4to. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies signed by the artist. This is number 354, signed by John Vernon Lord. Bound in full green leather and blocked with a design by Lord. Includes the print in green folder, housed in iridescent orange cloth clamshell with gilt spine title and a portrait of Joyce mounted to the front. A fine copy, as new.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. London: Folio Society, 2022, Folio Society Numbered Limited Edition Signed by the Artist with extra "Exclusive Print presented in a Folder". Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies signed by John Vernon Lord, this copy number 97, bound in green calfskin leather blocked in gold foil, 768 pages of text set in Dante and printed on Munken Pure paper, printed in two colours throughout. Frontispiece and 18 full-page colour illustrations printed on Natural Evolution Ivory paper, gilt page top edges, two green grosgrain ribbon markers. Print by John Vernon Lord presented in a folder featuring a design by the artist. Clamshell box covered in red cloth inset with a printed label and blocked in gold foil, dimensions - 3½˝ × 12½˝ × 9˝ Clamshell box with a bumped corner and a mark to the spine front joint. Folio Society Centenary Edition. Provenance: in the original cardboard box with the Foilo Society label to the top. Approximately 11⅖˝ × 8˝ inches. Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition gilt titles and decoration. Joints very good condition. Corners very good condition. Boards very good condition full leather, gilt decoration to the front board. Page edges very good condition gilt top edge, others clean. Clamshell box good condition minor marks, rear corner bumped and creased to the cloth, mark to the front joint see photos. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition sound. Paste downs very good condition map or plan. End papers very good condition map or plan. Title very good condition unread. Pages very good condition unread. Binding very good condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 2022 Binding: Hardback. Signed by Illustrator(s).

8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, title and text decorations in sepia and black, 18 coloured plates and green printed endpapers; full green calfskin BY SMITH SETTLE, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, two green ribbon markers, a fine copy in publisher's terracotta cloth clamshell case with mounted illustration and gilt back. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES SIGNED BY LORD (THIS COPY No. 331). WITH EXCLUSIVE COLOURED PRINT IN SEPARATE PORTFOLIO. Splendid memorial edition published to commemorate the centenary of the work's first publication.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. No Jacket. John Vernon Lord (illustratore). 1st Edition. Brand new copy, will be shipped in Folio's original packaging. Fully bound in leather, Folio's centenary edition of the modernist masterpiece is illustrated and signed by John Vernon Lord. Signed by Author(s).

Full-Leather. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: None issued. John Vernon Lord (illustratore). 1st Edition. Signed by John Vernon Lord Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies Illustrations and introduction by John Vernon Lord Introductory essays by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon, and Stacey Herbert Fully bound in leather, Folio's centenary edition of the modernist masterpiece is illustrated and signed by John Vernon Lord. To mark the centenary of publication on 2 February 2022, this Folio Society limited edition, bound in calfskin leather, celebrates one of the greatest novels of the 20th century in the most authoritative edition of the text. The intricate artwork by John Vernon Lord, one of the finest illustrators working today, includes 19 colour illustrations and an exclusive print presented in a folder featuring a design by the artist. Lord has also signed each of the 500 hand-numbered copies on a letterpress-printed limitation page. Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies signed by John Vernon Lord Bound in green calfskin leather blocked in gold foil 768 pages of text set in Dante and printed on Munken Pure paper Printed in two colours throughout Frontispiece and 18 full-page colour illustrations printed on Natural Evolution Ivory paper Gold page tops Two green grosgrain ribbon markers 11?? × 8? Print by John Vernon Lord presented in a folder featuring a design by the artist Presentation box - Clamshell box covered in red cloth inset with a printed label and blocked in gold foil. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. . HBDJ, 1961, New Edition Corrected & Reset, The book is in Very Good+ Condition and comes from a smoke-free home. Some staining , small circle on two pages, Measures 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", Red Decorated Cloth Titled on Spine, Interior Nice tight Clean LIGHT FOXing, Wear, DJ Near Fine Condition Light Wear & Tiny Chips Extremities Light FoX, 783 pgs, Publisher Blue Dye at Top Edges pages. & the Decision of United States District Court rendered by Judge John M. Woolsey . New Edition Text Serupulously Corrected & Type Completely Reset & New Plates Made, One of Greatest Novels Ever Written. No consideration of contemporary CulTure can be Complete or even meaningful without it. Foreword by Morris L. Ernst & the Decision of United States District Court rendered by Judge John M. Woolsey. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Limited Edition. One of 1500 numbered copies, this copy signed by the illustrator, Henri Matisse. Hardcover, bound in decorative cloth. Lacks slipcase. The corners rubbed, one a bit frayed; one minor closed tear front fly leaf; repairs to the endpapers along the fold. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Illus. by Henri Matisse, 12 x 9.25", gilt-dec (by Matisse) brown cloth, 363pp, covers a little rubbed, extremities a little worn, spine a tad dull, hinges loose, bookseller ticket (Philip C. Duchnes) inside back cover; with the original "Monthly Letter" from the Limited Editions Club, and the original slipcase (very worn, stained, cracking at joints, etc.). LIMITED TO 1500 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #1261), SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, HENRI MATISSE.

Cloth. Condizione: Very good. Ulysses by James Joyce from The Limited Editions Club, signed by Henri Matisse. (illustratore). Limited Edition. Quarto, xv, [iii], 363pp, [3pp]. Brown cloth, gilt title on spine, embossed design on front cover. Top edge sprinkled brown, edges untrimmed. Light rubbing to tips, some shelf wear to gilt on front emblem. Solid text block. Contains twenty-six plates (six etchings by Matisse and twenty reproductions of preliminary drawings). Housed in custom beige slipcase, publisher's original paper spine over new boards. Includes original flyer from the Limited Editions Club. From a limited edition of 1500 copies signed by Henri Matisse, this being number 311. An excellent copy. In the early 1930s, Henri Matisse was paid $5000 by Limited Edition Club founder George Macy to do six full-page etchings for Ulysses. Many believe that Matisse never read the novel before beginning the compositions. This limited edition run of 1,500 copies was signed by artist Henri Matisse, with 250 copies signed by both Matisse and the author, James Joyce.

First edition thus. Number 1198 of 1,500 numbered copies SIGNED BY MATISSE. An interesting edition in the history of the Limited Editions Club in that, of the 1,500 numbered copies, only 250 were also signed by Joyce, who famously quit signing when he found out Matisse had prepared illustrations for Homer's work instead of his own. One of the finest productions of the Club, illustrated with 6 original soft-ground etchings by Matisse each of which is accompanied by 20 reproductions of his preliminary drawings on papers varying in size and color (26 illustrations total). Quarto (4to) gilt-stamped brown cloth boards with raised gilt illustration on front; top edge speckled in brown; 363 pages plus colophon. Near fine with light foxing to page fore edges and just a touch of rubbing to front medallion. Housed in the original publisher's slipcase which is somewhat soiled and worn but still quite sturdy. Scarce in such nice shape and in the original slipcase.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 1500 copies, signed by Henri Matisse on the limitation leaf a VERY GOOD first in brown cloth. Signed by Author(s).

One of the most arresting collaborations in 20th-century literature. "It was a great idea to bring them together; celebrities of the same generation, of similar virtuosity" (Wheeler, 15). The 26 beautiful full-page illustrations by Matisse accompany the text of Joyce's Ulysses, including six soft-ground etchings with reproductions of the sketches on blue and yellow paper. "One of the very few American livres de peintres issued before World War II. According to George Macy [this work's designer], who undertook this only American publication of Matisse's illustrations, he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide for $5000. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer's Odyssey. The preparatory drawings reproduced with the soft-ground etchings (Matisse's only use of this medium) record the evolution of the figures from vigorous sketches to closely knit compositions" (Artist and the Book 197).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 1500 copies, signed by Henri Matisse on the limitation leaf a VERY GOOD first in brown cloth. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Limited Edition #1009/1500. Quarto, 363 pages. In Fine condition with Near Fine glassine jacket. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt stamped decoration on front cover. Housed in publisher's orange paper slipcase. Slipcase is in Very Good minus condition with tearing to edges of opening, tearing to spine edges, and mild rubbing. Glassine jacket has slight tearing and wrinkling to edges. Book hinges in beautiful condition. Signed by illustrator Henri Matisse on limitation page. JW consignment. Shelved Case 7. 1381608. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

First edition thus. The iconic modernist book, signed by Matisse - one of the great editions of one of the great books. Joyce's masterpiece, in the deluxe edition published after the 1933 landmark ruling in the case of United States v. One Book Called Ulysses. Eleven years after the book's initial publication, a US court affirmed that in the matter of obscenity, One Book Called Ulysses had soundly defeated the United States, and immediately thereafter, Limited Editions Club founder George Macy began to plan what would be a monumental achievement: a landmark among Matisse's livres d'artiste, reproducing his preparatory drawings alongside the final soft-ground etchings; the only illustrated ULYSSES with an introduction that Joyce allowed to be published; and the most accurate text of the novel published in the US until 1961. In the early days of the project, believing that the artist "[knew] the French translation very well" and only wanted for an idea of the Irish context, Joyce proposed to send him an illustrated Dublin weekly of 1904 for visual reference. But Matisse had no interest in the specificities of Ireland, and, though his drawings were organized around the Odyssey itself, barely more interest in the specificities of Greece (the two struggling women of his "Calypso," Hillary Spurling suggests, were "an image that had more to do with the artist's own home life that summer than with either Joyce or Homer.") Seeing the sample drawings, George Macy began to plea for some connection, any connection between image and text: "While we understand, and admire, the idea by which the plates are to be illustrative of Homer's Odyssey, it is essential that the incidents of the Odyssey which are illustrated must also make reference to incidents in Joyce's book." This was no way to speak to a great artist. Matisse responded by matching his drawings to individual chapters without explanation, saying only that they represented "reactions of my mind before Joyce's work" and, by the way, "Mr. James Joyce, who knows about the way I am illustrating his book, quite agrees with me on it." This would perhaps have been news to Mr. James Joyce, whose best-known comment on the finished product was: "If they had been signed L.J. [Lucia Joyce] instead of H.M. people would have had a different tale to tell. I am only too painfully aware that Lucia has no future but that does not prevent me from seeing the difference between what is beautiful and shapely and what is ugly and shapeless. As usual I am in a minority of one." Setting aside Joyce's opinion, Matisse's work may be viewed as conceptually linked to his own: not illustrations in any conventional sense, but a parallel artistic project, a second great modernist manipulation of the ODYSSEY. Another plausible interpretation of Matisse's drawings understands them as a response not to the text but to "the critical apparatus that developed around the novel during the 1930s" (Brown), and specifically to Stuart Gilbert's perceptive introduction. As for contemporary reception, members of the Limited Editions Club expressed one of three reactions: A vile book, dressed up with great art; a great book, ruined by "crackpot drawings"; or a magnificent work, the expression of "perfect rapport among author, illustrator and designer." The third judgment has held up quite well. 11.75'' x 9''. Original brown Bancroft buckram with gilt globe stamped to front board. In original slipcase. Designed by George Macy. Introduction by Stuart Gilbert. Illustrated with six etchings and 20 tipped-in drawings on blue and yellow paper. 363, [1] pages. Edition of 1500 numbered copies signed by Matisse. This copy no. 1264. Slipcase with light expert restoration at edges; some rubbing and soiling overall. Book just starting at top of rear hinge, but firm. Else clean and bright. Both housed in a custom quarter leather over black cloth archival clamshell box with gilt title spine. Very good plus in a very good slipcase.

First Edition. "JOYCE, James. Ulysses Prospectus. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1921. One folded leaf, printed on both sides; pp. 4. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $10000.Very rare original Shakespeare and Company prospectus for Joyce's Ulysses.In 1919, Joyce's Ulysses began appearing in installments in the Egoist in London; although the Egoist's editor, Harriet Weaver, intended to publish the whole novel in book form (she even issued announcements of its forthcoming publication), no printers were willing to take the legal risk. The Little Review in Chicago then began publishing chapters, promptly leading to the prosecution of its editors, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, on charges of obscenity. Upon hearing of this from Joyce himself, Sylvia Beach offered to publish the work through her Parisian bookstore, Shakespeare and Company. "Undeterred by lack of capital, experience, and all the other requisites of a publisher, I went right ahead with Ulysses," wrote Beach in her memoir. Joyce had modest goals for publication: "He thought that if a dozen or so copies were printed there would be some left over. A thousand copies were to be printed, I told him firmly."A prospectus was printed announcing that Ulysses, by James Joyce, would be published 'complete as written' (a most important point) by Shakespeare and Company, Paris, in 'the autumn of 1921.' The prospectus stated that the edition was to be limited to a thousand copies: 100 printed on Dutch paper and signed, at 350 francs; 150 on verge-d'Arches, at 250 francs; and the remaining 750 on ordinary paper, at 150 francs. There was a postage-stamp-sized photo of the author, gaunt and beardedthe one taken in Zurichand excerpts from articles by those critics who had spotted Ulysses on its first appearance in the Little Review. On the back of the prospectus was a blank form to be filled in with the subscriber's name and his choice of the kind of copy he wanted" (Beach, Shakespeare and Company, 46-48).The prospectus was successful, and orders began pouring in from throughout the world, in part due to the tireless promotion of the work and distribution of the prospectus by friends of Beach such as Ezra Pound. The prospectus "was probably written by Adrienne. It was paid for at the beginning of May and mailed to people all over the world Friends in journalism publicized her plans. May and June were frantic. Mailings were sent out by the score Joyce haunted the bookshop every day waiting for the orders to arrive The Paris Tribune, the European edition of the Chicago Tribune, carried an article about her in its 28 May 1921 edition: 'American Girl Conducts Novel Bookstore Here.' In commenting on her coming publication of Ulysses, the article states, 'It is said that its present publication may mean that Miss Beach will not be allowed to return to America.' Such publicity added to the drama of publication" (Fitch, 81-84).After some delay, Ulysses was finally published on February 2, 1922. "Within a month of the publication, the first printing of Ulysses was practically sold out, and within a year Joyce had become a well-known literary figure. Ulysses was explosive in its impact on the literary world of 1922 Then began the great game of smuggling the edition into countries where it was forbidden, especially England and the United States. The contraband article was transported across the seas and national borders in all sorts of cunning ways" (de Grazia, 27). After Shakespeare and Company moved from its original location on the Rue Dupuytren to Rue de l'Odeon on in July 1921, the old address on the prospectus was crossed out and the new address written in, suggesting that this copy was one of the earlier ones mailed out (see Fitch, 91). With mounted photograph of Joyce on the last page, as issued. Leaf neatly split in two along fold; two small closed tears. Very scarce.".

Condizione: Fine. Signed Limited Edition. First illustrated edition. 373 pp. Copy number 1492 of a limited 1,500, signed by Henri Matisse. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt with, top edge speckled brown. Fine, with just the faintest rubbing to the gilt-covered relief on the front cover, in Near Fine publisher's slipcase with slight soiling and slight wear, bubbling to paper on one face. A beautiful copy, in much nicer condition than as normally found. A visually striking production which combines James Joyce's modernist masterpiece with twenty-six illustrations by Matisse, including six hand-printed etchings and twenty lithographs.

Condizione: Very Good. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. Ninth printing. Extra leaf tipped in at front and signed "James Joyce Paris 2-6-28." Large octavo. 735 pp. Bound in "Greek flag blue" wraps. Housed in half morocco slipcase lettered in gilt; inner cloth chemise. Wraps worn at extremities with very slight chipping to base of spine; a few creases to spine. Slight lean to spine, but binding holding soundly. Overall Very Good. The bound in leaf, inserted by an unknown previous party, was signed while Joyce was living in Paris and Finnegan's Wake was being published serially under the title "fragments from Work in Progress." [SLOCUM 17].

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Modern Library Reprint. Modern Library Reprint. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Joyce, James. ULYSSES. Samuel Beckett Presentation Copy. Joyce Signature. New York. Random House, 1948. The Modern Library Edition, later printing. 8vo., 768pp. Sea-green cloth. A near fine copy in a very good modestly restored black dustwrapper. This copy of James Joyce's Ulysses from the library of Ray DaBoll, considered one of the most talented calligraphers & designers in America, inscribed by Beckett on the title-page in black ink: "On his birthday and yours / Sam Beckett / Feb 2 (Groundhog Day)" - Making reference to James Joyce's birthday (February 2nd - Groundhog Day). There are Beckett inscription & than there are Beckett inscriptions - This elegant display of Beckett Brain Works, the latter, with Ray DaBoll's bookplate on the front pastedown. In addition, a fine example of Joyce's signature tipped to the front free endpaper. A Clever Beckett Presentation - Superb Association Copy - Fine Joyce Signature. In a custom TBCL Modern Clamshell Case. Punxsutawney Phil says. "It's our Birthday - This is a nifty gift".

Ulysses was published in Paris by Shakespeare & Company, 1922. It was a struggle for the author to find a publisher, a comic irony considering that Ulysses is "[u]niversally hailed as the most influential work of modern times" (Grolier Joyce 69). Ulysses was an immediate success. The first printing sold out, and "within a year Joyce had become a well-known literary figure. Ulysses was explosive in its impact on the literary world of 1922" (de Grazia, 27). Even so, the book faced difficulties in global reception. It was banned in the U.K. and was prosecuted for the obscenity in the Nausicaa episode (Ellmann, 1982). Joyce's inspiration for the novel began as a young boy reading Charles Lamb's Adventures of Ulysses and writing an essay entitled "My Favorite Hero" after being impressed by the wholeness of the character (Goreman, 1939). The idea for the novel grew from a story in Dubliners in 1906, which Joyce expanded into a short book in 1907, before reconceptualizing it as the heady novel in 1914 (Ellmann, 1982). The book can initially seem unstructured and chaotic, and Joyce admitted that he "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant" (The Observer, 2000). The French translator Stuart Gilbert published a defense of Ulysses shortly after its publication in which he supported the novel's use of obscenity and explained its internal structure and links to the Odyssey against accusations of ambiguity. Every episode, Gilbert explained, is connected to the Odyssey by theme, technique, and correspondence between characters. Another instance of Ulysses' literary contribution is his use of stream-of-consciousness, a technique employing carefully structured prose, both humorous and charactering, and involving puns and parodies. Joyce was a precursor to the use of stream of consciousness in the later decades. Similar narrative techniques were used by his contemporaries Virginia Wolfe, William Faulkner, and Italo Svevo. Their style can be better characterized as an "interior monologue, rather than stream of consciousness, is the appropriate term for the style in which [subjective experience] is recorded, both in The Waves and in Woolf's writing generally" (Stevenson, 1992).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Copy #1365 of 1500 numbered copies, one of the 250 copies signed by both James Joyce and Henri Matisse. A fine copy in the original gilt-stamped brown cloth, entirely unfaded with tight hinges; in a solid and intact copy of publisher's slipcase (the book has a couple of faints spots or bruises to the deckles on foredge; the slipcase has light wear and a few marks). Illustrated with 6 original etchings and 20 photomechanical reproductions by Henri Matisse Housed in a sturdy custom brown cloth clamshell box with black leather spine stamped in gilt. One of the most storied illustrated books of the 20th century. Although the tale is often erroneously told that Matisse thought he had been hired to illustrated Homer (and did so), Alfred Barr wrote "Matisse remarked that he had observed how Joyce's Ulysses was divided into episodes based on Homer's Odyssey . Macy accepted the suggestion and Matisse went to work." (Matisse: His Art and His Public, 1951).

One of the most arresting collaborations in 20th-century literature. "It was a great idea to bring them together; celebrities of the same generation, of similar virtuosity" (Wheeler, 15). The 26 beautiful full-page illustrations by Matisse accompany the text of Joyce's Ulysses, including six soft-ground etchings with reproductions of the sketches on blue and yellow paper. "One of the very few American livres de peintres issued before World War II. According to George Macy [this work's designer], who undertook this only American publication of Matisse's illustrations, he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide for $5000. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer's Odyssey. The preparatory drawings reproduced with the soft-ground etchings (Matisse's only use of this medium) record the evolution of the figures from vigorous sketches to closely knit compositions" (Artist and the Book 197).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Crown4to, xiii, 766 p. Original beautiful full vellum binding with the gilt Homeric bow designed by Eric Gill on the upper and lower covers, gilt titled backstrip, top edge gilt, cream endpapers, signed by Joyce beneath the limitation number 20. Small light brown mark on the backstrip (see picture) otherwise a superb completely unopened and internally very fine copy. There are no inscriptions or writing nor any bookplates on the book. Complete with a later superior matching slipcase. Limited Edition number 20 of 100 signed copies. First edition thus. Slocum & Cahoon 23. One of the most significant novels of the 20th century. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Limited Edition. This book is in Fine condition. The lettering to the spine is bright and unrubbed. There are no bookplates, signatures, or markings of any kind. The pages are clean and free of any foxing. This is a limited edition #27 of 40 copies signed by Robert Motherwell. The book contains 40 etchings by Robert Motherwell, 20 of which are in color. The book comes with its rare original slipcase in good condition. There is some fading to some of the sides of the slipcase. This is the deluxe edition which comes with a separate portfolio with an additional set of the etchings. Each etching in the additional suite of prints is signed in initials and numbered by Robert Motherwell. The clamshell case for the portfolio has some fading and minor staining to its front cover. It also comes in its original carboard shipping container from the Arion Press. Signed by Illustrator(s).

First edition to be printed in Britain, one of 100 copies on handmade paper (this copy number 38) signed by the author. Quarto. Original vellum over boards, binding design by Eric Gill with large gilt bow on each cover, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, John Lane, The Bodley Head. A really fine copy, all but perfect, with a little foxing to the fore-edge, but otherwise unthumbed, un-bowed, and unmarked, lacking the original slipcase. This signed limited Bodley Head issue of Ulysses is certainly the most handsome edition of the text published in Joyce's lifetime. Its publication followed the legal success of the 1934 Random House Ulysses trial, which established the principle that a ?classic? text was allowed greater leeway in the matter of morals. The ?classic? argument was backed up by the luxuriousness and expense of the Bodley Head edition, for experience had proved over years that expensive books were much less likely to be attacked for obscenity, and it was published with no public scandal. A touch of creasing to head and tail of spine, some variation to the tone of the vellum binding, faint marking to covers, very light spotting to edges of text block, endpapers and margins of preliminary and terminal leaves. Slocum & Cahoon, A23.

hard cover. Condizione: good. no jacket. Limited to 1000 copies. This is unnumbered copy of 100 copies printed on mould-made paper. Signed by James Joyce on limitation page. 3/4 vellum with blue cloth boards, brown title label with gilt lettering on spine, marbled e.ps. With a preserved case. xiii,(3),765,(1)pp. Boards and spine sl.stained. Edges foxing. Flyleaves foxing. e.ps., title page, limitation page, and pp.758-765 sl.spotted. pp.464-465 stained and pp.460-470 sl.stained. [f1339-171447]. signed by author.