JOYCE, James Ulysses. 1922 Published for the Egoist Press, London, by John Rodker, Paris (Dijon, Darantière), 8vo (8 pp. list of errata lacking; 1st and last pp. fox. & brown., half title defect. at corners, locally fox., pp. 33/48 bound between...
Estimation :
500 / 700
Adjudication :
500 €
Description
pp. 16/17), bradel dark blue half morocco, grey cloth covers, flat gilt titled spine, untrimmed, orig. wrappers not preserved. Rather used copy.
2nd printing of the 1st ed. (Paris, Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, 1922). Ed. limited to 2000 copies on handmade paper (n. 906). "Even as the first edition was being sold, plans were underway for a second printing, this time in England by Weaver and the Egoist Press. At this point, Beach had no intention to continue publishing Ulysses beyond the first edition. In an attempt to circumvent prosecution, the book would still be printed in France by Darantiere. John Rodker acted as Weaver's agent in France, essentially following the plan he had suggested to her earlier (...) Two thousand numbered copies (and one hundred unnumbered) were printed and, with the exception of the publisher's statement, this edition is almost identical to the 750 series limitation of the first printing. Darantiere warned Beach that since the type he used was movable, a few new errors would creep into the second printing (and some did)" (Buffalo exhibition). "500 of these [2000 copies], sent to America, were reported seized and burned by United States government authorities (...) This edition was printed from the plates of the original edition" (Slocum).
2nd printing of the 1st ed. (Paris, Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, 1922). Ed. limited to 2000 copies on handmade paper (n. 906). "Even as the first edition was being sold, plans were underway for a second printing, this time in England by Weaver and the Egoist Press. At this point, Beach had no intention to continue publishing Ulysses beyond the first edition. In an attempt to circumvent prosecution, the book would still be printed in France by Darantiere. John Rodker acted as Weaver's agent in France, essentially following the plan he had suggested to her earlier (...) Two thousand numbered copies (and one hundred unnumbered) were printed and, with the exception of the publisher's statement, this edition is almost identical to the 750 series limitation of the first printing. Darantiere warned Beach that since the type he used was movable, a few new errors would creep into the second printing (and some did)" (Buffalo exhibition). "500 of these [2000 copies], sent to America, were reported seized and burned by United States government authorities (...) This edition was printed from the plates of the original edition" (Slocum).
