"I hold Ulysses to be the most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape."

-T.S. Eliot

Harriet Shaw Weaver, editor of London's Egoist Press and one of Joyce's greatest patrons and supporters, searched for several years for a printer who was willing to risk prosecution and perhaps a jail sentence to produce the controversial Ulysses before abandoning her hopes of a first edition printed in England. She then lent her support to Sylvia Beach's Paris-based Shakespeare and Company for the production of the first edition, printed in Paris and published on February 2, 1922. Weaver's Egoist Press edition appeared on October 12, 1922, printed in Paris in an edition of 2000 from the plates of the original Shakespeare and Company edition with the addition of several pages of errata citing newly discovered typographical errors. 

Of the 2000 copies of the Egoist Press edition printed, it is believed that 500 copies were sent to the U.S. in 1922 and were seized and destroyed by U.S. Customs officials. Ulysses, in fact, was banned in the United States until 1933.

First English edition (printed in France) of the greatest literary achievement of the twentieth century; number 508 of only 2000 copies printed. Published in the same year as the Shakespeare and Company first edition. Bound without original blue wrappers. Occasional minor spotting. A beautifully bound copy of a rare and important edition.