First edition of James Joyce's Ulysses
the most celebrated novel of the 20th century

JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Co., 1922. Quarto, original blue-green wrappers. Custom half-leather box. $40,000.

Quarto, original blue-green wrappers. First edition, one of 750 printed on handmade paper (out of a total edition of 1000). A beautiful copy in original wrappers. A few small spots of early, very light, almost undetectable color touch-up (no new paper added) to paper joints, some wear to base of spine; otherwise a near-perfect copy with fragile wrappers completely intact. Rare in this condition.  WITH: A very early prospectus/ad laid-in. NOTE: the handwritten address change indicates that this is a very early prospectus, printed before Shakespeare and Company moved to their new address.