Ulysses 1st Trade Edition 1937 in custom leather binding by Karen McGuire with bow motif inlaid to front board
Joyce, James
$995.00
Place Published: London
Edition: 1st Trade Edition
Date Published: 1937
Size: 8vo
The first trade edition of Ulysses, Bodley Head 1937, here in a custom full-leather art binding by Karen McGuire, bound at this bookseller’s request; text reproduced by photo-offset from the 1936 ed., includes list of previous editions (up to 1936), and appendices relating to the banning of Ulysses, the unauthorized serial edition of Samuel Roth (and list of writers and other notables who signed a petition against Roth), and a Joyce Bibliography (18 titles); bound in new full green leather with gilt borders to front and rear boards, gilt titling to spine, and with Bow motif (after Eric Gill’s original design) in maroon inlay and gilt details; new headbands and endpapers; some foxing and mild creases to prelims, minor stains to text block (with mild bleeding to edges of some pages), original green topstain faded, o.w. Very Good.