Ulysses by James Joyce - First US edition
JOYCE, James. Ulysses. New York, Random House, 1934.
First authorized American edition, first printing, of Ulysses: a landmark of 1930s graphic design.
Arguably the most significant literary achievement of the twentieth century, Ulysses was first published in 1922 by Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company in Paris. Deemed obscene and subsequently banned in both the UK and the US, several early copies faced destruction by customs and postal authorities.
This edition was designed by the typographer and graphic designer Ernst Reichl (1900-1980), who crafted the layout, binding, and dust-jacket. Its Art Deco design, functional and dramatic, feels as modern as Joyce’s work itself. It was preceded in the US by a pirated edition, published in New York for Samuel Roth in 1929.
Octavo, pp. 767, [1]; very good in the publisher’s cream cloth over bevelled boards, spine and front cover lettered in black and red, top edge red (some light cockling to lower edge of final 80 pages, some limited, light foxing to inner margin of initial leaves up to p. 13, but generally very clean; spine and extremities faintly toned, head of spine a little worn, some ink staining to fore edge of text block); with a facsimile dust-jacket; bookplate of Ken Noyer to front pastedown.
JOYCE, James. Ulysses. New York, Random House, 1934.
First authorized American edition, first printing, of Ulysses: a landmark of 1930s graphic design.
Arguably the most significant literary achievement of the twentieth century, Ulysses was first published in 1922 by Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company in Paris. Deemed obscene and subsequently banned in both the UK and the US, several early copies faced destruction by customs and postal authorities.
This edition was designed by the typographer and graphic designer Ernst Reichl (1900-1980), who crafted the layout, binding, and dust-jacket. Its Art Deco design, functional and dramatic, feels as modern as Joyce’s work itself. It was preceded in the US by a pirated edition, published in New York for Samuel Roth in 1929.
Octavo, pp. 767, [1]; very good in the publisher’s cream cloth over bevelled boards, spine and front cover lettered in black and red, top edge red (some light cockling to lower edge of final 80 pages, some limited, light foxing to inner margin of initial leaves up to p. 13, but generally very clean; spine and extremities faintly toned, head of spine a little worn, some ink staining to fore edge of text block); with a facsimile dust-jacket; bookplate of Ken Noyer to front pastedown.
JOYCE, James. Ulysses. New York, Random House, 1934.
First authorized American edition, first printing, of Ulysses: a landmark of 1930s graphic design.
Arguably the most significant literary achievement of the twentieth century, Ulysses was first published in 1922 by Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company in Paris. Deemed obscene and subsequently banned in both the UK and the US, several early copies faced destruction by customs and postal authorities.
This edition was designed by the typographer and graphic designer Ernst Reichl (1900-1980), who crafted the layout, binding, and dust-jacket. Its Art Deco design, functional and dramatic, feels as modern as Joyce’s work itself. It was preceded in the US by a pirated edition, published in New York for Samuel Roth in 1929.
Octavo, pp. 767, [1]; very good in the publisher’s cream cloth over bevelled boards, spine and front cover lettered in black and red, top edge red (some light cockling to lower edge of final 80 pages, some limited, light foxing to inner margin of initial leaves up to p. 13, but generally very clean; spine and extremities faintly toned, head of spine a little worn, some ink staining to fore edge of text block); with a facsimile dust-jacket; bookplate of Ken Noyer to front pastedown.