TITLE: Ulysses
AUTHOR: James Joyce
PUBLISHER: John Lane The Bodley Head
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1936
EDITION: Third
NUMBERED: 252 / 1000
BINDING: Publishers green cloth binding with large pictorial centerpiece (a Homeric bow) stampedin gilt, smooth spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, many unopened. Housed in the publisher's decorative paper slipcase. Binding and typography designed by Eric Gill.
NO.OF PAGES: pp.xiii, 765, [1], [2, blank] pages.
SIZE [WITHSLIPCASE]:
Height: 27 cm
Width: 21.5 cm
Depth: 6.5 cm

A Beautiful Copy of the Rare Bodley Head Edition, Copy # 252 of 1000

First edition printed in England, 100 copies were made on mould-made paper, bound in calf vellum, and signed by James Joyce. 900 copies were made on Japan Vellum paper bound in linen buckram.

A gorgeous copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses, considered to be the most handsome of all editions. In the volume are three appendices comprising protests, injunctions, Joyce's letter to his American publisher, Judge Woolsey's decision to lift the ban on Ulysses in the United States, and other related material, including a Joyce bibliography.

"Universally hailed as the most influential work of modern times" (Grolier, Joyce, 69), in 1998 Ulysses was named the most important novel of the twentieth century by the editorial board of the Modern Library.

Slocum and Cahoon A23.