Ulysses.
Paris: John Rodker for the Egoist Press, 1922.
4to, [15], 732, (1)pp. Later half black morocco, gilt top, backstrip richly gilt, original Aegean blue printed wrappers bound in. A very good copy tastefully bound and preserving the iconic wrappers.
§ First UK edition, number 715 of 2,000 copies printed (500 were seized and burned by the U.S. customs upon arrival); with half-title and 7 pages of errata at the front. Long bookseller's note in pencil at back (by John Howell-Books), priced $75.
Joyce's ground-breaking modernist novel was first serialized in the American journal The Little Review and was the target of the first of many censorship attempts soon after the publication of the Nausicaa episode. Despite being banned in the UK and suppressed in the US well into the 1930s the novel was recognized as a landmark in literature from its earliest reviews.
"I hold this book to be the most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape." - T.S. Eliot.
Slocum & Cahoon A18. Item #126350
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