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First redesigned binding, more easily handled and with a resetting of the first English trade edition. 8vo, publisher’s original dark green cloth lettered on the spine in gilt, in the printed dark green dustjacket with the Eric Gill bow on the spine panel in white. 937 pp. A pristine copy, especially fine and essentially as mint, the jacket is also pristine.

Edizione: an especially fine copy. as pristine. a modern resetting of the first bodley head edition. contains an appendix matching old page numbers to new. ulysses can be viewed as the pinnacle of the modernist movement, and its impact on all subsequent western literature is unmistakable. such writers as virginia woolf, john dos passos, william faulkner, samuel beckett, malcolm lowry, and anthony burgess have all paid tribute, consciously or unconsciously, to joyce's influence. burgess as well pronounced it the greatest single work in the english literature of this century, and he is not alone in that opinion.