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JOYCE, JAMES. Ulysses. [10], 732, [6] pages. Thick 4to, original Greek blue wrappers lettered in white, mild rubbing to front joint and head and foot of backstrip, rear and front cover with diminishing vertical creasing running into text leaves, small spot of rubbing to rear wrapper; partly unopened, contents clean. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922
number 724 of 750 copies on handmade paper. an unsophisticated example. The first printing of Ulysses consisted of 1000 copies comprising three various limitations: the first 100 were printed on Dutch handmade paper, numbered and signed by Joyce; copies 101-250 were printed on Verge d'Arches paper, not signed; and the final 750, as here, were numbered 251-1000 and printed on a lesser grade of handmade paper and like the previous limitation, were not signed by Joyce. With laid-in TLS from Burton Roscoe, Literary Editor of the New York Tribune (October 10, 1922, on their letterhead) to Russell H. Loines in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, wishing to forward the present copy ("There is danger in sending it through the mails...") he just received from Paris through Lewis Galantiere, an intimate of many writers in Joyce's circle in Paris. Connolly, The Modern Movement 42; Slocum & Cahoon A17.
