Ulysses by JOYCE, James - 1922

Paris and London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, 1922. Hardcover. Near Fine. First English edition (printed in France). Bound in cloth with black morocco spine label gilt. Wrappers bound in. Modest rubbing on the wrappers, faint dampstain confined to a tiny bit of the bottom corner, else near fine. Copy number 1547 of 2000 numbered copies (of which approximately 500 were destroyed by U.K. Customs). Author Gilbert Seldes's copy with his initials and a brief note on the leaf following the limitation page, noting that this copy came without the errata notice. Seldes was an important popularizer of Joyce, according to *The Nation: 1865-1990* by Katrina vanden Heuvel (1990), "[Seldes's] ... long, glowing 1922 review in The Nation of Ulysses by James Joyce helped the book become known in the United States (although it would remain banned there until 1933)." A nice association copy of one of the great novels of the 20th Century. *Connolly 100.*.