Joyce (James) - Ulysses. [Specially revised at the author's request by Stuart Gilbert.]

Uysses, by James Joyce. [Specially revised at the author's request by Stuart Gilbert.] First Odyssey Press edition, two volumes, 12mo, 18cm, pp.1-400, pp.[iv] 401-792[2], The Odyssey Press, Hamburg, Paris, Bologna, December 1932.

Text set in Monotype Baskerville with Naudin and Le Champleve used for titling. Beige paper wrappers (a little creased), titled in reddish brown on the front and spine. A very good set in a later slipcase.

The Odyssey Press edition was the first to appear after Sylvia Beach gave up her exclusive right to publish Ulysses. It contained many corrections and by its fourth edition in April 1939 it was considered the most correct text of Ulysses, even thoough it still contained errors.

Odyssey Press was an imprint of Albatross Press and wasset up in 1932 speciallyto publish Joyce's Ulysses. Albatross had been established in 1931 by John Holroyd-Reece, a publisher of art books at Pegasus Press  and Max Christian Wenger who had worked for the renowned Tauchnitz publishers. The first book published in the Albatross Modern Continental Library in 1932 was Joyce's Dubliners, and thereafter Holroyd-Reece and Wenger bombarded Joyce with requests to bring out an edition of Ulysses.