Paris: Shakespeare and Co. 10th Printing 1928. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1928

8vo. Bound with the original Greek blue paper front cover, in contemporary simple half leather in matching color, with raised bands and gilt title. Binding is rubbed and somewhat worn (see photos) but still absolutely solid. (6), 735 pp. Some rubbing to front inner cover paper and the handwritten name of Danish Joyce translator Bent Wiberg to innercover front with pencil, and another handwritten name w pencil to preliminary blank, otherwise a clean copy and overall well preserved copy of the fragile Shakespeare & Co printing

A desirable 1928 original copy in a contemporary binding of the 10th printing

A penultimate edition – a KEY PRINTING BY SYLVIA BEACH’S SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY OF THIS LANDMARK OF 20th CENTURY LITERATURE. Bound as is often found on printings of the period in a simple style designed to draw little attention to itself due the controversy of the text within (banned in the States from 1923 to 1934). Joyce asked that the wrappers of Ulysses be printed in the Greek colours (white on a blue field), as he considered the colours lucky for him, and they also “suggested the myth of Greece and of Homer, the white island rising from the sea” (Ellman)

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