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Joyce, James. Ulysses 1st Trade Edition 1937. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1937.
Price: US$165.42 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first trade edition of Ulysses, Bodley Head 1937, the text being reproduced by photo-offset from the 1936 ed.; includes list of previous editions (up to 1936), and appendices relating to the banning of Ulysses, the unauthorized serial edition of Samuel Roth (and list of writers and other notables who signed a petition against Roth), and a Joyce Bibliography (a full 18 titles!); former owner's name to front endpaper, heavy foxing/tanning to endpapers, lighter to prelims and text block, G-VG throughout; boards rubbed and foxed, dulled to spine. no dustwrapper. 765pp. 8vo. Good
Seller: Gotcha By The Books, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
James Joyce.. ULYSSES.. , 1937.
Price: US$640.43 + shipping
Description: 1937, London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, first trade edition, pp766, green cloth in dustwrapper. Dustwrapper browned, chipped and torn, cloth slightly browned, otherwise a good copy of an uncommon edition.
Seller: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
JOYCE, James.. Ulysses.. London John Lane The Bodley Head, 1937.
Price: US$907.50 + shipping
Description: First UK trade edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's green cloth, Gill's Homeric bow design to upper board and titles to spine gilt, with the dust jacket. Boards somewhat browned but a very good copy in the rubbed and frayed dust jacket with a strip of surface loss to the front panel costing several letter extending slightly onto the spine panel. After the Bodley Head had successfully published their limited edition of 1936 without attracting any judicial actions, this first trade edition was put out for general sale. It too was left unprosecuted and paved the way for all subsequent printings in the UK. An especially handsome publication worthy of a masterpiece.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
James Joyce. Ulysses. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1937.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Splendid copy of this classic landmark title, #1 on the Random House/Modern Library Best 100 Books of the (20th) Century. Finely bound in three-quarter mid 20th-century green half morocco, title and compartments to spine gilt, top edge gilt. A beautiful production.
Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Joyce, James. Ulysses. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1937.
Price: US$1537.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1937 John Lane, The Bodley Head hardback 1st UK Trade edition 1st impression Green cloth with the iconic bow design and titling in gilt. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good+ unclipped dustjacket. A clean bright copy
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
James Joyce. Ulysses. Bodley Head, London, 1937.
Price: US$1601.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original green cloth boards with bow design in gilt to front boards. Housed in a good dust jacket with minor loss to head of spine and price clipped in rather a crude manner. with some interesting newpaper clippings pasted to the rear of the front board from 1939 and 1941. Internally no inscriptions or marks. A very handsome copy of the first British trade edition.
Seller: No. 5 Rare Books, Caistor, United Kingdom
Joyce, James. Ulysses. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1937.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First British trade edition, first printing. [viii], 766, [2] pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. Very Near Fine with subtle bowing to boards, a little offsetting to endpapers and few tiny stains, in an unclipped dust jacket, very lightly shelfworn, else Fine. An attractive copy of the classic novel.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Joyce, James. ULYSSES. John Lane / The Bodley Head, London, 1937.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo (21.25cm); green cloth, with titling and Homeric bow stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; mint green topstain; dustjacket; [viii],765,[3]pp. Hint of foxing to front cover, some offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers, else clean internally; very Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with light wear to crown, and three small closed tears; a bright, Near Fine example. An attractive edition of Joyce's most enduring work, the text reproduced by photo-offset from John Lane's 1936 limited edition, and issued in a reduced-size trade binding. cf.Slocum & Cahoon 23, p.35.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Joyce, James. Ulysses. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1937.
Price: US$95000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An exceedingly scarce presentation copy of the first English edition printed in England, limited issue signed by James Joyce. One of 100 copies (from a total edition of 1000 copies, this copy unnumbered) printed on mould-made paper and bound in full calf vellum. This copy was reserved for presentation by the author, unnumbered at the colophon with the words "Presentation Copy" inscribed in calligraphy below the limitation. The only other copy of this edition of 100 that we could locate that bears the presentation inscription (this copy also unnumbered) was from Joyce's private library now housed in the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo. They also hold two other copies of the Bodley Head Ulysses (1/900) that also bear the words "Presentation Copy" on the edition statement: one having been owned by Joyce and the other by Sylvia Beach. Bound in publisher's original full calf vellum with gilt Homeric bows designed by Eric Gill on the upper and lower cover and titles in gilt on spine, top edge gilt. Housed in publisher's original patterned slipcase, which is also correctly sans number matching the presentation copy's blank. Near Fine with light discoloration and light rubbing to the vellum, spine slightly darkened and with light mottled foxing, foxing to textblock extremities. Slipcase is rubbed and a little worn, with several small stains; Foxing to interior of slipcase. Publisher's prospectus laid in.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.