Ulysses. London: Bodley Head, 1937. First UK Trade Edition. Pp, 766. Publisher’s green cloth, lettered in gilt, Homeric Bow in gilt to upper board, title lettered in gilt to spine. Neat ownership mane to endpaper, with advertisement for Herbert Gorman’s biography on James Joyce to front pastedown. A fine bright copy (without dust jacket).

The first truly complete edition of Joyce’s literary masterpiece, incorporating the author’s corrected text and complemented by a prefatory list of previous editions and three appendices, including a legal history of the novel and a bibliography of the author’s works.

It was first published in the UK in a limited edition of 1000 copies by The Bodley Head in 1936.

[Slocum & Cahoon A23]