Ulysses by James Joyce

JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1926.

Eighth printing, the first with the type entirely reset, revised and corrected by the author.

Arguably the most significant literary achievement of the twentieth century, Ulysses was first published in 1922 by Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company in Paris. Deemed obscene and subsequently banned in both the UK and the US, several early copies faced destruction by customs and postal authorities (see the book’s colophon for details). For this eighth printing, also by Shakespeare and Company, the type was reset, incorporating Joyce’s corrections from the earlier printings. The iconic blue wrappers with white lettering of the first printing were retained.

Small quarto, pp. 735; a very good copy; original blue wrappers, titles to cover and spine in white (spine slightly sunned and worn, joints neatly restored, extremities slightly rubbed, tail of spine chipped).