James Joyce’s Dublin: A Topographical Guide to the Dublin of Ulysses. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2004. Folio. Red cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

Published to coincide with the centenary of Bloomsday on June 16, 2004, this unique study uses more than 100 maps and photographs to examine the importance of Ulysses’s basis in physical fact, showing how characters move around the city and how the novel works in terms of time and place.