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James Joyce. Ulysses. The Bodley Head, 1936.
Price: US$1537.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is number 641 from a 900 print run of the first UK edition from 1936, the boards has some minor marking and age toning, corners have some pushing, there is a previous owner bookplate to ffep and paperstamp to title page, front and rear endpages have hinge cracks, binding is still tight, please see pics, I'm happy to supply further pics, just get in touch, paypal accepted.
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
James Joyce. Ulysses (in fdj) UK 1st. The Bodley head, 1936.
Price: US$1921.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is number 392 from a 900 print run of the first UK edition from 1936, the boards has some speckling on the front, corners have some pushing, the binding is tight with no hinge cracks or marking to pages, The book comes with a facsimile dust jacket, please see pics, I'm happy to supply further pics, just get in touch, paypal accepted.
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
James Joyce. Ulysses. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936.
Price: US$2822.08 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First UK Edition, First Printing. No. 699 of 900 copies on Japon Vellum. A near fine copy, the spine of which is slightly faded, in a fine $25 facsimile dustwrapper.
Seller: Yves G. Rittener - YGRbookS, Zürich, Switzerland
JOYCE, James. Ulysses. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1936.
Price: US$3111.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1936. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. Includes original dust jacket, price unclipped, in fine condition. Dust jacket is slightly edge worn and damp-stained, otherwise a clean scarce copy. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
JOYCE, James.. Ulysses.. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1936.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: 766 pp. Small 4to, publisher's green buckram stamped with Homeric bow in gold; in dust jacket. First edition printed in England; No. 847 of 900 copies on Japon vellum. Very slight browning to extremities of spine; else a fresh bright copy in a price-clipped jacket with some light wear to its extremities and some hand-soiling, particularly to the spine. Uncommon in dust jacket.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Joyce (James). Ulysses.. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936.
Price: US$4803.24 + shipping
Description: 403/900 COPIES (from an edition of 1,000 copies) printed on Japon Vellum paper, pp. xiii, [1], 766, 4to, original green buckram with Eric Gill's Homeric bow design stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt with some fading to ends corresponding to dustjacket loss, one corner bumped, t.e.g., others untrimmed with a couple of spots, the dustjacket a little browned and lightly soiled overall, some creasing and heavily chipped around backstrip panel with some areas of loss, good. A notable and substantial edition, in a handsome design by Eric Gill (the numbering of the edition is also in his distinctive hand); its Appendices include accounts of legal proceedings and a bibliography. (Slocum & Cahoon 23)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Joyce James. ULYSSES. London John Lane, The Bodley Head 1936, 1936.
Price: US$7150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, English Issuance, First Authorized English edition, one of 900 copies only, printed on special Japon vellum papers, probably the most beautiful First Edition of ULYSSES ever printed. Tall, thick, royal 8vo, publishers original full green polished linen buckram with the gilt lettering and pictorial decoration of the gilt bow designed by Eric Gill on the upper cover and spine, housed in the rare printed dustjacket lettered in black on the upper cover and on the spine and decorated with the bow in red on the spine panel. [xvi], 766 pp. A well preserved copy, the covers of the green cloth in bright and beautiful condition without any of the fading typical to the book, the back just a bit mellowed at the tips, the dustjacket with the price still intact and showing some light aging and some evidence of use or handling, but whole and without major defects or substantial wear, some tidying up to the verso. A pleasing survival with all aspects of a collectors demands in good order. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT LITERARY FIRST EDITION, ARGUABLY THE GREATEST WORK OF FICTION OF THE 2OTH CENTURY, RARE IN THE DUSTJACKET. This an extremely impressive copy of the first authorized English edition. IT IS ALSO THE FIRST EDITION of ULYSSES PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. The superb binding executed in full polished linen buckram has been especially designed for this great book. DESIGNS FOR THE BINDING, EXECUTED IN GILT WERE ACCOMPLISHED BY ERIC GILL, ONE OF THE MOST GIFTED MASTERS OF THE ART. The typeface is extremely attractive and very readable, the printing on fine paper makes the book unusually handsome and presents what is perhaps the most beautiful printing of ULYSSES ever accomplished. Along with the text, there are a series of appendices attached including copies of the International Protest against the unauthorized and mutilated printings of ULYSSES done especially in the United States; a copy of the injunction issued to prevent Samuel Roth from continuing his piracies of ULYSSES; a copy of Joyces letter to Bennet Cerf concerning the promotion, legal fight and publication of ULYSSES on the authors behalf; a copy of the decision of the US District Court which was rendered on December 6, 1933 which lifted the ban on ULYSSES and a copy of the subsequent decision of the US Court of Appeals rendered in August of the following year which upheld the original decision; a copy of the forward to the first American edition and a bibliography of the works of James Joyce. ULYSSES can be viewed as the pinnacle of the Modernist movement, and its impact on all subsequent western literature is unmistakable. Such writers as Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Malcolm Lowry, and Anthony Burgess have all paid tribute, consciously or unconsciously, to Joyce's influence. Burgess as well pronounced it the greatest single work in the English literature of this century, and he is not alone in that opinion.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$32662.03 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 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 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 superior matching slipcase. Limited Edition number 20 of 100 signed copies. First edition thus.
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
Price: US$35223.75 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Joyce,James. Ulysses.. London: John Lane the Bodley Head,, 1936.
Price: US$36639.12 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Joyce, James. Ulysses. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1936.
Price: US$42500.00 + shipping
Description: No. 99 of 100 copies on mouldmade paper, signed by Joyce. Title page printed in blue and black. [xvi], 766 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. One of 100 Copies Signed by Joyce. Published following the legal success of the 1934 Random House Ulysses trial, which established the principle that a "classic" work was allowed greater flexibility when it came to conventional morality, coupled with the luxuriousness and expense of this edition ensured that it was published to no public scandal in the UK. An excellent copy of the most deluxe edition of Ulysses published during Joyce's lifetime, and signed by the author. Slocum & Cahoon A23; Gill 357 Original vellum over boards with gilt Homeric bow after design by Eric Gill, teg, other edges untrimmed, some toning to vellum with faint marking to covers, light spotting to edges of text block, endpapers, and margins of preliminary and terminal leaves; in original slipcase, rather scuffed and edge worn, but completely intact, with no splitting to the fragile joints, as often encountered, printed label with some marks and scuffing Title page printed in blue and black. [xvi], 766 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo No. 99 of 100 copies on mouldmade paper, signed by Joyce.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition printed in Britain. Thick quarto. Deluxe Edition, bound in full vellum; gilt-stamped boards famously designed by Eric Gill, with his Homeric bow motif. Hand-numbered as 10 of 100 copies and SIGNED by Joyce to colophon. This much-anticipated luxury edition of James Joyce's opus-advertised by Bodley Head as the work's "final and definitive" edition, with proofs corrected by the author-was published after the landmark 1933 trialUnited States v. One Book Called Ulysses, in which Random House successfully challenged the work's American publication ban for obscenity; a legal history that's represented by three appendices of materials reproduced at rear, including a letter from Joyce to Random House's head Bennett Cerf. This copy bumped to top of spine, with thumb-soling to vellum and some dusting to textblock edges. Overall: a close to near fine copy with remarkably crisp interior and firm hinges. Accompanied by the publisher's original patterned slipcase-now increasingly uncommon-with printed Bodley Head label affixed to front panel; no. 10 of 100 accomplished in manuscript. Original slipcase shows some scuffing and wear at corners, with previous collector's label to spine. Housed in custom half-leather slipcase with pull-tab chemise and gilt lettering to spine. A very pleasing copy of this milestone Joyce edition.
Seller: Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
JOYCE, JAMES. Ulysses. The Bodley Head, London, 1936.
Price: US$75000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Full cream (calf) vellum with gilt title to spine and the famous Eric Gill designed bow in gilt to front and rear panels. Housed in patterned cardboard slipcase which has in turn been put in a gilt lettered grey morocco clamshell box. This edition limited to 100 copies signed by James Joyce on mould-made paper. This copy #7.(lucky seven). Laid in is original prospectus. Vellum is uniformly in great condition Top edge gilt is fine. Cardboard slipcase shows wear especially at extremities . Grey morocco clamshell box is still in near fine condition. This edition with the textual improvements from the editions of Paris in the 1920's has become quite scarce . A nicer copy would be hard to find.
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada