JOYCE (James). 
Ulysses. Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922. In-4, natural pig…
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JOYCE (James).

Ulysses. Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922. In-4, natural pigskin, double cold fillet, ribbed spine decorated with cold fillets extending over the boards, inner frame decorated with a set of 4 fillets, double cold fillet on the edges, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine, case (Binding of the time). First edition. One of 150 copies on Arches laid paper, second paper after 100 copies on hollande. These copies on Arches are larger than the first and third papers: "These copies bulk dramatically larger than copies from the other two issues, earning them the sobriquet of Giant Joyces" (Glenn Horowitz Bookstore, New York, James Joyce catalog, 1996, p. 36). Probably for this reason, the Arches laid edition was the last of the three sent to Paris by Maurice Darantière, the printer of Ulysses, who was from Dijon and did not speak English. The first Ulysses to come off the presses, one of the 750, was sent by the Dijon-Paris express to Joyce so that he could receive it on his fortieth birthday, February 2, 1922. Others, still from the current run, arrived on February 9. Sylvia Beach, the publisher, received the first copy on hollande on February 13. The first copy on Arches did not arrive at her bookstore until March 4. The complete French translation of Ulysses was not published until 1929, by Adrienne Monnier, after eight years of collective work led by Larbaud with the help of Auguste Morel, Stuart Gilbert, Léon-Paul Fargue, Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier of course, and Joyce who supervised. From the Charles Ballantyne library in Yarrow, with his bookplate. Hinges skillfully restored.

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