Ulysses (Signed Limited Edition).
San Francisco, CA: The Arion Press, 1988. First edition thus. Hardcover. 835 pages. Number 82 of only 150 from a total edition of 175 with 25 hors commerce copies. The twenty-seventh publication from the Arion Press and widely considered their most sought after book. Designed by Andrew Hoyem with assistance from several others and done with the Eric Gill designed Perpetua monotype and printed on two different weights of French mould-made Johannot paper. Features Joyce's dense novel accompanied by forty etchings - 18 chapter numbers and 22 color illustrations by Robert Motherwell. A fine copy in blue cloth boards with white pigskin spine and in a very near fine cloth covered slipcase with printed paper spine label. Signed by Motherwell on the limitation page. The blue binding and slipcase are likely a nod to the original Shakespeare and Company edition. An exquisite production of one of the most important novels of the 20th century.
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Price: $17,500.00