Accession number
PML 197807
Creator
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Published
London : John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1936.
Credit line
Gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Notes
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"--Page [ix].
Library's copy numbered 367 of 900 copies printed on Japon vellum paper.
"The design of the bow on wrapper and binding is by Eric Gill"--Front flap of dust jacket.
"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"--Page [ix].
Library's copy numbered 367 of 900 copies printed on Japon vellum paper.
"The design of the bow on wrapper and binding is by Eric Gill"--Front flap of dust jacket.
Description
[xvi], 765, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Provenance
The Sean and Mary Kelly Collection; gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Binding
Publisher's green linen buckram, stamped in gilt with large 'Homeric' bow on upper board, spine lettered in gold, top edge gilt; issued in tan dust jacket lettered in black with bow design printed on spine in red, designed by Eric Gill.
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