Publisher and Year: Paris: Shakespeare & Company, 1927
Edition: Ninth printing stated on the copyright page. The type was entirely reset in the eighth printing to incorporate a variety of textual corrections, with those plates used through the eleventh printing issued in 1930. The novel was originally issued in 1922 in a limited run of 1,000 copies. (Slocum & Cahoon, pp. 25-26)
Condition and Description: Octavo (~7.5 x 6.75"), publisher's blue wrappers printed in white, 735 pp. Wrappers rubbed. Flaking to the paper at the joints and extremities, most heavily to the crown. Tanning to the edges and spine. Wrappers remain attached, but with two short splits at the ends of the rear joint, as shown in the final two photos. Binding firm. Pages tanned but clean, without any prior owner's markings.
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
Ulysses is widely regarded as one of the best and most defining novels of the century. Despite its later canonization, the novel was widely banned upon release, with distribution relying on subterfuge and smuggling operations to evade law enforcement. Despite these efforts, large portions of the first (February 1922) and second (October 1922) printings were seized and destroyed. All but a handful of the third printing (January 1923) met the same fate. Many copies were stripped of their recognizable wrappers or rebound into the new covers of unrelated titles as camouflage. The novel would not be legalized in the United States until 1933 and the United Kingdom in 1936. Copies from the 1920s are relics of an era when free speech in the arts was under threat.
Inventory ID: 938 - 402 - 895
Publisher and Year: Paris: Shakespeare & Company, 1927
Edition: Ninth printing stated on the copyright page. The type was entirely reset in the eighth printing to incorporate a variety of textual corrections, with those plates used through the eleventh printing issued in 1930. The novel was originally issued in 1922 in a limited run of 1,000 copies. (Slocum & Cahoon, pp. 25-26)
Condition and Description: Octavo (~7.5 x 6.75"), publisher's blue wrappers printed in white, 735 pp. Wrappers rubbed. Flaking to the paper at the joints and extremities, most heavily to the crown. Tanning to the edges and spine. Wrappers remain attached, but with two short splits at the ends of the rear joint, as shown in the final two photos. Binding firm. Pages tanned but clean, without any prior owner's markings.
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
Ulysses is widely regarded as one of the best and most defining novels of the century. Despite its later canonization, the novel was widely banned upon release, with distribution relying on subterfuge and smuggling operations to evade law enforcement. Despite these efforts, large portions of the first (February 1922) and second (October 1922) printings were seized and destroyed. All but a handful of the third printing (January 1923) met the same fate. Many copies were stripped of their recognizable wrappers or rebound into the new covers of unrelated titles as camouflage. The novel would not be legalized in the United States until 1933 and the United Kingdom in 1936. Copies from the 1920s are relics of an era when free speech in the arts was under threat.
Inventory ID: 938 - 402 - 895
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