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JOYCE (JAMES) Ulysses, first English edition, NUMBER 28 OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1936 image 1
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JOYCE (JAMES)
Ulysses, first English edition, NUMBER 28 OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR,, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1936

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
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JOYCE (JAMES)

Ulysses, first English edition, NUMBER 28 OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, from an edition limited to 1,000 copies, on mould-made paper and specially bound, title-page printed in blue and black, bookseller's label on rear paste-down, original prospectus loosely inserted, untrimmed in publisher's vellum, with gilt Homeric bow after a design by Eric Gill on both covers, t.e.g., preserved in original slipcase with printed label numbered in manuscript, extremities worn [Slocum & Cahoon A23], 4to, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1936

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A FINE COPY OF THE SIGNED DELUXE EDITION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH PRINTING, ONE OF 100 COPIES ISSUED. This handsome edition includes the added material from the first authorised American edition, as well as the International Protest and Injunction against Samuel Roth, and the first bibliography of Joyce's works.

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