Ulysses
Shakespeare and Co. / Adolph & Rudolph Loewinger, 230 West 17th St., New York for Samuel and Max Roth, 1929. Unauthorized American Edition. 8vo (6.5 x 8.5), custom bound in recent blue calf, three raised bands, gilt titles, blue marbleized endpapers, 735pp. Original text with mounted blue grey endpapers (presumably unoriginal), lacking the scarce original wrappers. The first unauthorized edition published in the United States by Adolph & Rudolph Loewinger, 230 West 17th St., New York for Samuel and Max Roth. Piracy based on the plates for the 9th printing of the Paris edition, though varying in font and punctuation, and replete with numerous printer’s errors: Jonthan for Jonathan Cape on By the Same Writer page, divisional numeral I page and flyleaf page reversed, page 359 numbered to inner margin, text inverted to page 323 third line from bottom, uneven trimming to pages (359-382; 419-446), et al. Text block appears to have been sewn into previous binding, with visible stitch holes at first blank page and in between sections of text (ex. pgs 34-35). A few pages contain mild soil marks to edges and small creasing to paper particularly at inner edges, small closed tear to fore edge of page 533. Nonetheless, defects are marginal, as pages of this edition are often found in much rougher condition. Contents clean, unmarked and complete. An edition 2,000-3,000 copies, many which were seized by the the Society for the Suppression of Vice on October 5th, 1929. “Copies of this pirated ninth edition reached Paris and were imported into the United States as genuine copies. One of these, sent by Joyce to Bennet A. Cerf of Random House, was used in setting up the first authorized American edition of Ulysses (Slocum, 29).” Presents in a navy blue custom clamshell case, lettered in gilt with marbleized inserts. An exceptional copy. Fine.
Price: $2,000.00