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JOYCE, James. Ulysses. The Odyssey Press, Hamburg, Paris, Bologna, 1932.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Duodecimo. 4.5 x 7 in. 792 pp. Good in original grey paper wrappers, with general reading wear to both volumes, and vertical creasing to the spine on Vol. 1. A previous owner removed the title page from each volume, leaving the specific edition unknown. However, the back of each volume bears the warning "Not to be introduced into the British Empire of the U.S.A.," which would indicate a second or later impression. This two volume set became the definitive text for later editions of Joyce's novel.
Seller: Bagatelle Books, IOBA, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.
Joyce, James. ULYSSES [two volume set]. The Odyssey Press: Hamburg, 1932.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 vols. 7 x 4.25", wrpas, 792pp, covers worn, toned and lightly spotted, Vol. 1 covers detached and creased at corners, ink name of former owner on front blank, spines chipped, a rather well used but still decent copy of the FIRST ODYSSEY PRESS EDITION from December 1932. SWAF.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$121.68 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition thus, 1932. This edition may be regarded as the definitive standard edition, as it has been specially revised, at the author's request by Stuart Gilbert. Two volume set. Bookplate of Douglas Lyne inside the front cover of volume two. Half title of volume one torn (no loss). Front card wrapper of volume one detached, The corners of both volume slightly creased and rubbed. Corners of the wrappers of both volume slightly chipped and rubbed. Covers marked and rubbed and spine of both volume darkened. Some light creasing to covers. Wrappers printed in red. Uncommon edition. 792 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
James Joyce. Ulysses. The Odyssey Press, 1932.
Price: US$263.10 + shipping
Description: (TC32) - Allemagne - The present edition may be regarded as the definitive standard edition as it has been specially revised at the author s request by Stuart Gilbert - 2 volúmenes con 792 páginas en total - Rústico - Tapas con pocas manchas y algo de suciedad - Lomos manchados y también reparado - Aceptable
Seller: LIBROS EL CID CAMPEADOR, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Joyce, James (1882-1941):. Ulysses. Roman.. Hamburg/Paris/Bologna, The Odyssey Press, 1932.
Price: US$274.06 + shipping
Description: 790(2) Seiten, Dünndruck. Ordentliches Exemplar. Seltene einbändige Dünndruckausgabe. Stockflecken auf dem Einband, wenige auf den Seiten. Good copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000
Seller: Antiquariat Schröter -Uta-Janine Störmer, Unna, Germany
Joyce, James. ULYSSES. The Odyssey Press: Hamburg (1932), 1932.
Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Description: 2 vols. 7 x 4.5", cloth with gilt-lettered spines, 792pp, covers well rubbed and soiled, spines very browned, extremities lightly bumped and fraying, vol. 1 front cover ring-stained, large spots to foredge of textblock of vol. 2, hinges loose, eps toned, but still a decent, collectible set of the FIRST ODYSSEY PRESS EDITION (first edition after Shakespeare and Co.).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Joyce James. Ulysses. 2 volumi. The Odyssey Press, 1932.
Price: US$303.66 + shipping
Description: Testo in inglese. Due volumi, 792 pagine totali, f.to cm 18x11, copertina flessibile. Molto buono, bruniture esterne.
Seller: FolignoLibri, Foligno, PG, Italy
Joyce, James. Ulysses (in two volumes). The Odyssey Press, Hamburg, Paris & Bologna, 1932.
Price: US$306.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First issued by The Odyssey Press: December 1932. Two volumes in very good condition.
Seller: OPEN DOOR BOOKSHOP, Roma, RM, Italy
JAMES JOYCE. ULYSSES. THE ODYSSEY PRESS, HAMBURG, PARIS & BOLOGNA, 1932.
Price: US$313.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION IN THIS FORM, BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS CARD COVERS, COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES, ENGLISH TEXT. EACH BOOK MEASURES APPROX 7 x 5 INCHES. COUPLE OF SMALL MINOR TEARS AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINES WITH A CHIP TO FRONT CORNER OF VOLUME 1, SPINES LIGHTLY BROWNED WITH A FEW MINOR MARKS & CREASES TO COVERS, FEW MINOR WRINKLES TO PAGES BUT MOSTLY TO FIRST FEW PAGES OF VOLUME 1 WITH SOME OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING TO BOTH VOLUMES. OVERALL IN VERY GOOD CONDITION WITH MAJORITY OF PAGES CLEAN & COVERS WELL ATTACHED. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY FOR OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS ARE POSTED IN A STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Joyce, James. ULYSSES [TWO VOLUMES]. The Odyssey Press, Hamburg, 1932.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 2 vols.; VG; softcover; in publisher's Fair glassine, in Fair gray slipcase; spines white, with red lettering; mild shelf wear and soiling to vols.; mild age toning to crowns and tails of spines; pages clean; CX consignment; shelved Case 2. 1346089. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
James Joyce. Ulysses. Odyssey Press, 1932.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Ulysses" by James Joyce. The Odyssey Press, Hamburg - Paris - Bologna. 1932 first thus edition. Edited by Stuart Gilbert, 2 vol., very light browning to titles, half-title to vol.1 with very small tear at head of inner margin, rebound in contemporary half roan, rubbed, [Slocum & Cahoon A20],
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$356.28 + shipping
Description: Worn set crudely bound in the original cloth. Wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; two volumes. Subjects; James Joyce. Ulysses. Irish Fiction. Irish Literature. The Odyssey Press. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
James Joyce. Ulysses. 2 Volumes. 1932 Odyssey Press First Impression. Odyssey Press, Hamburg, 1932.
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1932 First impression of the first Odyssey Press Edition, Hamburg, 1932. Size 12mo, 7" tall, 792 pages continuously paginated across both volumes. This edition advertises itself as the "definitive standard edition" The text was revised at Joyce's request by his friend Stuart Gilbert. The base of the rear cover of each volume states "Not to be introduced into the British Empire or the U.S.A." Grey paper covers with red titles to the front covers and spines. Condition good plus, covers are quite clean with a little marking at edges, head and tail of spines slightly worn, hinges a little rubbed, pages edges a bit dust darkened, hinges a little loose, pages slightly toned otherwise clean throughout, no marks or inscriptions. Quite a nice clean set.
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Worn set crudely bound in the original cloth. Wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; two volumes. Subjects; James Joyce. Ulysses. Irish Fiction. Irish Literature. The Odyssey Press. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Joyce, James. Ulysses. Odyssey Press, 1932.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 Vols. First Odyssey Press edition, 1932, Hamburg, may be regarded as the definitive standard edition as it has been specially revised at the author's request by Stuart Gilbert. Very good in wrappers. Previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$512.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Text set in Monotype Baskerville, with Naudin and Le Champleve used for titling. Beige paper wrappers (a little creased), titled in reddish-brown on the front and spine. A very good set in a later slipcase. The Odyssey Press edition was the first to appear after Sylvia Beach gave up her exlusive right to publish Ulysses. It contained many corrections and by its fourth edition in April 1939 it was considered the most correct text of Ulysses even though it still contained errors. Odyssey Press was an imprint of Albatross Press and was set up in 1932 specially to publish Joyce's Ulysses. Albatross had been established in 1931 by John Holroyd-Reece, a publisher of art books at Pegasus Press, and Max Christian Wenger, who had worked for the renowned Tauchnitz publishers. The first book published in the Albatross Modern Continental Library in 1932 was Joyce's Dubliners, and thereafter Holroyd-Reece and Wenger bombarded Joyce with requests to bring out an edition of Ulysses
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Joyce, James. Ulysses. The Odyssey Press, Hamburg, 1932.
Price: US$685.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 791 pag - one-volume edition printed on india paper
Seller: Von Meyenfeldt, Slaats & Sons, Breda, Netherlands
Joyce, James. Ulysses. The Odyssey Press, Hamburg, 1932.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes, each 4.375" X 7. Volume 1 is 400 pp. Volume 2 brings total to 792 pp. Fine in cream colored cloth with red lettering on the front panel & there is very slight foxing. Owners name penned very lightly to flyleaf, inscription dated March 1933. Shipped in a box, not a padded envelope.
Seller: Dubliners Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$712.57 + shipping
Description: ''The present edition may be considered as the definitive standard edition, as it has been specially revised, at the author's request, by Stuart Gilbert''. Edizione definitiva, rivista su richiesta dello stesso Joyce, da Stuart Gilbert. Opera in 2 volumi . 16mo. pp. 792. . Ottimo (Fine). . Quarta edizione (4th Edition). .
Seller: Studio Bibliografico Marini, ROMA, RM, Italy
Price: US$877.01 + shipping
Description: 789pp.
Seller: Antiquariaat Ovidius, Bredevoort, Netherlands
James Joyce. ULYSSES 2 VOLUME SET. Odyssey Press, Hamburg, 1932.
Price: US$949.95 + shipping
Description: Both volumes Very Good+ in wraps. Both spines toned.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
James Joyce. Ulysses. The Odyssey Press, Hamburg, 1932.
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A scarce, first one volume cloth edition of James Joyce's leading modernist novel, 'Ulysses'. A first thus. The first one volume edition in cloth issued by the Odyssey press of Hamburg.This edition is composed in Baskerville type, and has been printed on thin paper by Papier-Fabrik Zum Bruderhaus.'Ulysses' was first issued in England in 1922 by Shakespeare and Company.With a later slipcase.The text of this edition has been edited by Stuart Gilbert, with assistance from Joyce. Therefore this work is one of the most important lifetime printings of Ulysses.Ulysses is an incredibly influential novel, and is a major work in the modernist canon. First serialized in the American journal 'The Little Review' before being published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in Paris. A parallel of Homer's epic 'The Odyssey', Joyce's novel is set in 20th century Ireland and explores the relationship of the country's relationship with Britain. A beloved work by many, T.S Eliot referred to 'Ulysses' as being 'a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. In a later slipcase. Externally, very smart. A few light spots to the edges of the cream boards. Red text to the spine is slightly rubbed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Faint aroma of cigar smoke to the work. Scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Otherwise, just the odd spot. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Joyce (James).. Ulysses. The Odyssey Press, Hamburg, Paris, Bologna,, 1932.
Price: US$1075.93 + shipping
Description: Two volumes Spine just a little sunned but a very nice copy On the verso of the title-page is the printed statement: "The present edition may be regarded as the definitive standard edition, as it has been specially revised, at the authors request, by Stuart Gilbert." Green quarter morocco, marbled boards, sides with gilt rules, spines with raised bands lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, original wrappers bound in, in matching marbled slipcase
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
James Joyce. ULYSSES 2 VOLUME SET. Odyssey Press, Hamburg, 1932.
Price: US$1375.00 + shipping
Description: Both volumes Very Good+ in wraps. Faint owner printed stamp on bottom of both volumes' rear end pages.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: Collection of several editions of Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses. The collection is comprised of a first American edition of Ulysses [New York: Random House, 1934]; early printing of the Unlimited edition of Ulysses [London: The Bodley Head, 1949]; the Odyssey Press edition of Ulysses in two volumes [Hamburg: The Odyssey Press, 1932]; early printing of the New edition of Ulysses in a dust jacket [London: The Bodley Head, 1967]; facsimile edition of the first edition of Ulysses housed in a custom full buckram box [Shelton: The First Edition Library, n.d.]; facsimile edition of the second edition of Ulysses [London: The Folio Society, 1998]; a first American edition of Finnegans Wake [New York: The Viking Press, 1939]; and two others. Each volume is in near fine to fine condition. A unique set illustrating the evolution of this great literary work. James Joyce's Ulysses was first published by Shakespeare and Company, Paris, in February 1922. Between 1922 and 1925 the text was reprinted six times. In May 1926, Shakespeare and Company issued a second edition (mistakenly called the eighth printing) in which the type of the text was entirely reset and Joyce's corrections from the previous printings were absorbed. Since its publication, the book has attracted controversy and scrutiny, ranging from an obscenity trial in the United States in 1921 to protracted textual "Joyce Wars". The novel's stream of consciousness technique, careful structuring, and experimental proseâ"replete with puns, parodies, and allusionsâ"as well as its rich characterization and broad humor have led it to be regarded as one of the greatest literary works in history.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.