JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: Egoist Press, 1922. 

4to. 8pp. errata. Contemporary brown morocco gilt, stamp-signed by Morrell (lower hinge starting); original wrappers bound in. Provenance: W. & G. Foyle & Ltd. (bookseller's label on lower pastedown). 

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, number 260 of 2,000 copies, printed in Dijon from the original plates for Joyce's patron, Harriet Weaver, who was unable to find a printer in London, and distributed by Rodker and Ezra Pound. Of the 2,000 copies printed, 500 copies were sent to America and were subsequently reported seized and burned by the United States government authorities; recent evidence suggests that not all of the copies sent to America were destroyed.  According to Harriet Shaw Weaver, 'a good number of copies sent by ordinary book post to the U.S.A got through to their various destinations, but some time between October 1922 (when the Egoist edition as published) and December, the U.S.A censorship authorities evidently became suspicious€¦until finally 400-500 copies were confiscated and burnt' (qtd. in Slocum and Cahoon). Slocum and Cahoon A18.

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