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THE COMING-OUT OF COPY 46 JOYCE, JAMES. Ulysses. 4to, original sewn signatures, lacking wrappers save for a 2-inch strip still attached to spine;
THE COMING-OUT OF COPY 46 JOYCE, JAMES. Ulysses. 4to, original sewn signatures, lacking wrappers save for a 2-inch strip still attached to spine; binding threads of second half broken, leaving loose gatherings, exposed preliminary and endleaves lightly creased, chipped, and soiled along edges; old custom cloth chemise and slipcase, worn. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922
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Notes: first edition, limited issue, one of 100 copies on dutch handmade paper signed by joyce. One of only a few copies of this limitation still in private hands, this is its first appearance at auction. Purchased by the original owner in 1922, it was given to the consignor's father around 1940. It remained in the same slipcase and has belonged to the family ever since. Brought to J. Howard Woolmer's attention in the 1980s, it was included in the 1996 Ulysses census updated by him and Glenn Horowitz. Its appearance corresponds exactly to their description.
The first printing of Ulysses consisted of 1000 copies divided into three limitations: the first 100 were printed on Dutch handmade paper, numbered and signed by Joyce; copies 101-250 were printed on Vergé d'Arches paper, not signed; and the final 750 were numbered 251-1000 and printed on a lesser grade of handmade paper. Only about four copies of this limitation have appeared at auction in the last decade.
Arguably the most significant and celebrated English language novel of the 20th Century, its publishing trials and tribulations are legend. Stymied by obscenity charges that prevented its serial publication in The Egoist, Joyce's masterpiece was published instead by Sylvia Beach in the winter of 1922 under her imprint at the Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris. Slocum and Cahoon A17.
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