7th Jun, 2019 11:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 41
 

41

Joyce, James Ulysses. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936. Royal 8vo, org. green linen buckram,...

Joyce, James
Ulysses. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936. Royal 8vo, org. green linen buckram, upper board with gilt bow after Eric Gill, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g., in dust jacket. Limited edition, numbered 242 of 900 printed on japon vellum paper. With original prospectus loosely inserted. This edition of Joyce's masterpiece of modernist Irish surreal realism was expanded with two appendices dealing with the tortured legal history of the book.

Sold for £2,300
Estimated at £800 - £1,000


 

. Jacket a little creased at head and foot of spine, spine a touch sunned, slight marking to lower board, head and foot of spine a touch yellowed, edges slightly foxed, internally clean, a nice copy.

 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 7th Jun, 2019

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