Accession number
PML 197806
Creator
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Published
London : John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1936.
Credit line
Gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Notes
Title page printed in blue and black.
Appended to the text are documents relating to the history of publishing Ulysses in America: The International protest against the unauthorised & mutilated edition of 'Ulysses' in the U.S.A. (1927); Injunction [against Samuel Roth and Two Worlds Publishing Company] (1928); A letter from Mr Joyce to the publisher of the first American edition (1932); The decision of the United States District Court ... by Hon. John M. Woolsey lifting the ban on 'Ulysses' (1933); The decision of the United States Court of Appeals (1934); Foreword to the first American edition [by Morris L. Ernst] (1933).
"Bibliography of works by Mr. James Joyce": pages 765-[766].
"Limited to 1,000 copies, divided as follows: 100 copies on mould-made paper bound in calf vellum and signed by the author; 900 copies on Japon vellum paper bound in linen buckram, unsigned. This copy is No...."--Page [ix].
Library's copy numbered 84--one of the 100 copies signed by Joyce and bound in vellum.
"The binding design is by Eric Gill"--Printed paper label on slipcase.
Appended to the text are documents relating to the history of publishing Ulysses in America: The International protest against the unauthorised & mutilated edition of 'Ulysses' in the U.S.A. (1927); Injunction [against Samuel Roth and Two Worlds Publishing Company] (1928); A letter from Mr Joyce to the publisher of the first American edition (1932); The decision of the United States District Court ... by Hon. John M. Woolsey lifting the ban on 'Ulysses' (1933); The decision of the United States Court of Appeals (1934); Foreword to the first American edition [by Morris L. Ernst] (1933).
"Bibliography of works by Mr. James Joyce": pages 765-[766].
"Limited to 1,000 copies, divided as follows: 100 copies on mould-made paper bound in calf vellum and signed by the author; 900 copies on Japon vellum paper bound in linen buckram, unsigned. This copy is No...."--Page [ix].
Library's copy numbered 84--one of the 100 copies signed by Joyce and bound in vellum.
"The binding design is by Eric Gill"--Printed paper label on slipcase.
Description
[xvi], 765, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by Joyce on justification page, as issued.
Provenance
The Sean and Mary Kelly Collection; gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Binding
Publisher's full calf vellum, stamped in gilt with large 'Homeric' bow on upper and lower boards, spine lettered in gold, top edge gilt; issued in patterned paper slipcase with printed paper label, designed by Eric Gill and bound by Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co.
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