Ulysses. Published for The Egoist Press. London by John Rodker, Paris 1922. Second Edition. Bound in full limp vellum covers, title lettered in black on spine. The original publisher’s wrappers bound-in front & rear. With the original eight pages of Errata listing the over 200 typographical errors (bound-in at rear). A fine bright copy.

Limited Edition of 2000 Numbered Copies on handmade paper [number 1352].

Issued in October 1922 for distribution in Britain, this second edition was printed primarily from the original, unaltered plates used in the production of the first Shakespeare edition. 

A long-time Joyce supporter, Harriet Weaver was determined to bring out her own edition of Ulysses. A socialist, she believed that her inheritance, “tainted by usury, was hers in trust,” and had signed a sizeable inheritance over to Joyce. She sent Joyce a £200 advance for an English edition, which was published for the Egoist Press by John Rodker of Paris, and printed by Silvia Beach’s printer Maurice Darentiere from the same plates as the first edition (published in February 1922).

500 copies of this edition were sent to America, but were reportedly seized or burned by U.S. government authorities. Copies of these volumes have resurfaced, however, and it is possible that the books were seized but not destroyed. John Rodker produced a January 1923 run to replace the missing copies, with the limitation notice ‘This edition of 500 copies is specially reprinted to replace those destroyed in transit to the USA.’