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Price: US$32931.59 + 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$35514.46 + 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. 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