Joyce, James. (1882–1941) [introduction by Harry Levin, bibliographical preface by Clive Driver]. ULYSSES: A Facsimile of the Manuscript. New York and Philadelphia: Octagon Books, a Division of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux/ The Philip H. & A. S. W. Rosenbach Foundation. 1975. First.

First printing of this sizable reproduction of the original notebooks in which James Joyce wrote his masterwork.

Three large octavo volumes. Pp. [vi] 45 [[3]330; [ii] 331-672 [4]; [ii] 4 [unpaginated facsimile of 1st printing, compared with the manuscript]. The first two volumes are fascimiles of Joyce's autograph manuscript; the third is a comparison between the manuscript and the first printing (Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922). All three volumes fine in blue cloth boards titled in white, in original white slipcase, slightly bumped, paper separating at corner of one side, else fine.