TITLE: Ulysses
AUTHOR: James Joyce
PUBLISHER: John Lane The Bodley Head
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1936
EDITION: Third
NUMBERED: 252 / 1000
BINDING: Publisher's green cloth binding with large pictorial centrepiece (a Homeric bow) stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, many unopened. Housed in the publisher's decorative paper slipcase. Binding and typography designed by Eric Gill.
NO.OF PAGES: pp. xiii, 765, [1], [2, blank] pages.
SIZE [WITHSLIPCASE]:
Height: 27 cm
Width: 21.5 cm
Depth: 6.5 cm

A COPY OF THE RARE BODLEY HEAD EDITION, NUMBERED 252 OF 1000

The first edition printed in England, 100 copies were made on mould-made paper, bound in calf vellum, and signed by James Joyce. 900 copies were made on Japon Vellum paper bound in linen buckram.

In the volume are three appendices comprising protests, injunctions, and Joyce's letter to his American publisher, Judge Woolsey's decision to lift the ban on "Ulysses" in the United States, and other related material, including a Joyce bibliography.

In 1998, "Ulysses" was named the most important novel of the twentieth century by the editorial board of the Modern Library.


CONDITION:
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