Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701

Sale 2701 - Lot 273

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Ulysses, first English edition.

London: The Egoist Press, 1922.

First English edition, quarto; number 650 of 2,000 printed (500 were seized and burned by the U.S. government upon arrival); with half-title and 8 pages of errata; bound in full polished calf, tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; with original wrappers bound in (even marginal toning throughout; small scratches to front board, rubbing); housed in a custom blue cloth clamshell box; 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.

Slocum & Cahoon 18.