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JOYCE, James Augustine Aloysius (1882-1941). Ulysses. Paris: Maurice Darantière for Shakespeare and Company, 1922.
4° (239 x 185mm). (Occasional, mainly marginal, light marking.) Original 'Greek' blue and white printed wrappers (lightly marked, edges a little rubbed, spine skilfully restored).
FIRST EDITION, limited to 1,000 copies, this number 985 of 750 on handmade paper. 'FOR MYSELF, I ALWAYS WRITE ABOUT DUBLIN, BECAUSE IF I CAN GET TO THE HEART OF DUBLIN, I CAN GET TO THE HEART OF ALL THE CITIES OF THE WORLD. IN THE PARTICULAR IS CONTAINED THE UNIVERSAL' (Joyce, quoted in: R. Ellman James Joyce (Oxford: 1983), p.505). Joyce asked that the wrappers of Ulysses be printed in the Greek colours (white on a blue field), as he considered the colours lucky for him, and they also 'suggested the myth of Greece and of Homer, the white island rising from the sea' (Ellman op. cit., p.524). The precise shade caused the binders problems, and a sample was eventually mixed for their use by Joyce's friend, the artist Myron Nutting. Slocum and Cahoon James Joyce 17.
4° (239 x 185mm). (Occasional, mainly marginal, light marking.) Original 'Greek' blue and white printed wrappers (lightly marked, edges a little rubbed, spine skilfully restored).
FIRST EDITION, limited to 1,000 copies, this number 985 of 750 on handmade paper. 'FOR MYSELF, I ALWAYS WRITE ABOUT DUBLIN, BECAUSE IF I CAN GET TO THE HEART OF DUBLIN, I CAN GET TO THE HEART OF ALL THE CITIES OF THE WORLD. IN THE PARTICULAR IS CONTAINED THE UNIVERSAL' (Joyce, quoted in: R. Ellman James Joyce (Oxford: 1983), p.505). Joyce asked that the wrappers of Ulysses be printed in the Greek colours (white on a blue field), as he considered the colours lucky for him, and they also 'suggested the myth of Greece and of Homer, the white island rising from the sea' (Ellman op. cit., p.524). The precise shade caused the binders problems, and a sample was eventually mixed for their use by Joyce's friend, the artist Myron Nutting. Slocum and Cahoon James Joyce 17.
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