Ulysses. by JOYCE, James - 1922

Paris: The Egoist Press, 1922. First UK edition, number 1,659 of 2,000 numbered copies issued for publication through the Egoist Press in the UK, but printed in France, the second printing overall, printed in the same year as, and from the plates of, the Shakespeare and Company first edition. Of these 2,000 copies 500 were reportedly destroyed by US Customs.
This copy is from the library of anthropologist Paul Baxter (1925-2014), with his Downing College bookplate to the front pastedown, and the gift inscription from his wife presenting him the work on the first blank. Baxter married in 1944, and was at Downing College from 1945 until the early 1950s, dating the gift and binding of this copy to that time. Octavo (225 x 177 mm). Near-contemporary blue buckram, titles to spine in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, original blue front wrapper bound in at rear. Spine very faintly sunned, a little rubbing to ends, a couple of marks to cloth, light foxing to contents, outer leaves a touch soiled, short closed tear to top edge of half-title, a couple of staple holes to title page and subsequent 2 leaves; a very good copy. Slocum & Cahoon A18; Gordon Bowker, James Joyce: A Biography.