[Rarebooks] FS: James Joyce Ulysses, 1922, #482 of 750

[Charles Agvent]

Copy #676 sold at Christies on Monday for $109,000.

JOYCE, James. ULYSSES. Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922.  First
Edition.  The true First Printing of this modern classic. Copy #482 of
750  numbered  copies printed on handmade paper of a total edition  of
only  1000. Bound without the original blue paper covers in half brown
morocco  with  matching  corners,  spine   lettered  in  gilt,  with a
matching  half  morocco  slipcase.  A   very  nice  copy  priced  very
attractively  because  the  half title and title pages are  in  expert
facsimile.  There  is also a facsimile corner repair to one page.  The
initial  and  rear blanks as well as the colophon leaf at the end  are
lacking;  the  limitation leaf at the beginning is original. In  order
to  bring  the  book into an English-speaking country  before  1934, a
number  of  people  evidently tore off the wraps and  title  pages  to
smuggle  it  in through customs. If you can live with this,  you  will
have  on  your shelf perhaps the most notable work of fiction  written
in  the  twentieth century at a price you are not likely to  encounter
elsewhere.  Despite  the  defects, Very Good in a  handsome  slipcase.

$6000--
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