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47 JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922 Unrestored in wrappers, distributed by Harriet Shaw Weaver First edition, number 825 of 750 copies on handmade paper numbered 251 to 1,000, an attractive example in the iconic blue wrappers entirely untouched by restoration. Sylvia Beach’s notebook records that this copy was one of a number sold to “Miss Weaver (on sale)”. Harriet Shaw Weaver was Joyce’s indispensable patron, without whose backing both Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
might never have been published. The 24 copies of the first edition so marked in Beach’s notebook suggest Weaver hard at work finding buyers and readers for his masterpiece. As a measure of Weaver’s paramount importance to Joyce, he inscribed copy number 1 to her. Small quarto. Original blue wrappers, titles to cover in white. Housed in a navy blue leather-backed bookform box. Pencil ownership inscription to first blank, “Alfred T. Cowie, 1954”. Mild rubbing to extremities with some loss to wrappers around spine corners, some light soiling but the whole still fresh and attractive, and entirely untouched by restoration, very few trivial spots within, a very good copy indeed. ¶ Slocum & Cahoon A17; Horowitz, Census , p. 131. £55,000 [153854]
All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk
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