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Joyce's Ulysses first edition 1 of 150

Title: Ulysses
Author: Joyce, James
Description: [8], 732, [1] pp. 10¼x8, full contemporary gilt-ruled dark brown levant morocco with original wrappers bound in, by the French Binders, Garden City, New York, rebacked employing the original spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, original blue-green front & back wrappers lettered in white bound in at rear. One of 150 copies on Vergé D'Arches (numbered 101 to 250), this being copy No. 116. First Edition.First edition, one of 150 large paper copies on Verge D'Arches. One of the greatest works of literature of the twentieth century, "Ulysses" can be viewed as the pinnacle of the Modernist movement, and its impact on all subsequent western literature is unmistakable. Such writers as Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Malcolm Lowry, and Anthony Burgess have all paid tribute to Joyce's influence. The first edition was printed in a total number of 1000 copies, in three limitation states: an edition of 100 copies (signed) on Dutch handmade paper, an edition of 150 large paper copies, and a regular edition of 750 copies. Slocum & Cahoon A17.
Heading: Place Published: Paris
Publisher: Shakespeare and Company
Date Published: 1922