Ulysses by JOYCE, James - 1928

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1928. 10th PRINTING OF THE FIRST EDITION. Original blue printed wrappers, some chipping on edges and along spine, top wrapper and flyleaf nearly detached; otherwise a very good uncut copy. Tenth printing of the first edition. After failing to find a publisher, Sylvia Beach, an American expatriate living in Paris, undertook the publication of the first full edition of Ulysses in 1922. That first edition sold out within the first month; of interest in our copy is a timeline of printings on the leaf following the title page. Ulysses is considered to be the most important work of modernist literature, despite the fact that it was initially banned as obscene in both American and Great Britain.