New York: Random House, (1934). First american edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 768 pp. Original cream cloth-covered boards, stamped in black, red, in original, unrestored, first-state with “reichl” to the bottom right corner, unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket. Jacket shows light wear to ends and tips, some rubbing, light toning. A fragile jacket kept quite well. Mild spine toning. Some ghosting to underside of jacket, perhaps from previous mylar applications or paper transfer. Book is tight, square and firm. Mild handling wear. Mild toning to panel edges, some light curling to spine ends. Some light cloth damage at rear panel and spine fold crease. Mild toning to page edges, top stain still quite vibrant. In a custom clamshell case. Presents very well.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement. The first authorised U.S. edition, published after the decision in United States v. One Book Called Ulysses finding that the book was not obscene. Random House's founder Bennett Cerf chose to base this edition on a copy of the pirated Samuel Roth edition of 1929, which led it to reproduce many of that edition's errors."