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The Library of a Deceased Irish Collector
Lot 210

JOYCE (JAMES)
Ulysses, first English edition, NUMBER 228 OF 900 COPIES on Japon vellum, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1936

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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JOYCE (JAMES)

Ulysses, first English edition, NUMBER 228 OF 900 COPIES on Japon vellum, from an edition limited to 1,000 copies, untrimmed in publisher's green linen buckram, with gilt Homeric bow after a design by Eric Gill on upper cover, t.e.g., dust-jacket with repeat of Gill's bow design on spine, covers with narrow band of fading at lower edges, dust-jacket with slight dampstain to spine [Slocum & Cahoon A23], 4to, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1936

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The first English printing of Ulysses, with the dust-jacket.

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