Ulysses. Hamburg: The Odyssey Press, 1939. Fourth Impression. Two volumes. Pp, 400, 392. Publisher’s stiff wrappers, titles to upper covers and spines, in original glassine dust jackets. Housed in publisher’s plain card slipcase. A fine bright set.

The first issue of Ulysses to be printed in two volumes and regarded as the definitive standard edition. It was revised at Joyce’s request, by Stuart Gilbert.

James Joyce’s Ulysses is a landmark modernist novel that reimagines Homer’s Odyssey in a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin.

The Odyssey Press edition was significant as one of the early authorised continental printings, making Joyce’s controversial work more accessible after its initial censorship battle.