Joyce, James. (1882–1941) [introduction by Harry Levin, bibliographical preface by Clive Driver] [Bidart, Frank. (b.1939)]. ULYSSES: A Facsimile of the Manuscript - EX FRANK BIDART. 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. A special example, from the library of poet Frank Bidart. 

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, very light rubbing to spines, in original white slipcase, slightly bumped and with a few stray marks, else fine. 

From the library of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. His signature of ownership on the half title or ffe of each volume.