Ulysses.  London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936



Large 8vo (10  1/8  x 7  1/2  in.; 257 x 190 mm, uncut and partially unopened).  Title printed in blue and black, music in text; very light browning in margins.  Publisher's vellum gilt by the Leighton Straker Bookbinding Co., spine gilt-lettered, both covers with gilt-stamped bow design after Eric Gill, top edges gilt; some soiling.  Modern buckram slipcase.

Slocum & Cahoon A23

Large 8vo (10 1/8 x 7 1/2 in.; 257 x 190 mm, uncut and partially unopened). Title printed in blue and black, music in text; very light browning in margins. Publisher's vellum gilt by the Leighton Straker Bookbinding Co., spine gilt-lettered, both covers with gilt-stamped bow design after Eric Gill, top edges gilt; some soiling. Modern buckram slipcase.
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First English edition. Copy 46 of 100 copies on mould-made paper, signed by Joyce (of a whole edition of 1000).

This edition was based on the second impression of the Odyssey Press edition of 1933, with the addition of appendices: "International Protest" and "Injunction against Samuel🍎 Roth," a letter from Joyce to Bennett Cerf with other materials on the court case which lifted the ban on publication, and Pertzhoff's "Bibliography."