Ulysses by James Joyce. This is the first British edition printed in October 1922 for The Egoist Press, London by John Rodker in Paris. The first Paris edition was published by Shakespeare and Company in February and this, the second edition was published shortly after using the same plates as the first. It would lead to the court case over obscenity in the United States where the book was banned until 1936. 2,000 copies of the first English edition were printed, hundreds of which were smuggled to the UK & USA, with most intercepted and destroyed. It's been reported that the U.S. Post Office burned around 500 copies. Condition: 8vo 732 pages, (9 x 7"), beautifully rebound in polished blue calf leather with hand decorated endpapers, spine titles lettered in gilt. No. 1559 of 2000 copies. Light toning to interior, some foxing to preliminary pages, with a few scattered dots of foxing throughout, minuscule area of insect damage at top of limitation page; a couple of stray pencil notations and remnants of a stamp barely visible on the lower title page. Overall, a near fine, beautifully rebound and very rare edition of what has been called the single most significant English language novel of the last century. 
 
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