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50 JOYCE, James. Ulysses. New York: Random House, 1934 First authorized American edition, trade issue, first state jacket (with designer’s name present). Laid-in to this copy is a single leaf advertisement for Joyce’s reading of Anna Livia Plurabelle and a promotional print of one of Berenice Abbott’s most iconic photographs of Joyce (1926). Joyce would immortalise Abbott in Finnegans Wake as “the Tulloch-Turnbull girl with coldblood kodak” (quoted in Marler). This edition was preceded by the pirated edition of the Shakespeare and Company Ulysses , published in New York for Samuel Roth (1929), unauthorized by Joyce and sold illegally in the United States. Octavo. Original cream cloth, bevelled edges, titles to front and spine black and red, top edge red. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom black cloth chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. Square and firm, boards and edges very lightly foxed, two tiny marks to rear board, a fine copy, in the bright, clean jacket, small chips to tips, occasional crease and nick to extremities, remarkably fresh. ¶ Slocum & Cahoon A21. £5,000 [153756]
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