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Joyce, James. Ulysses. 2 vols.

399, (3) pp.; pp. 401-791, (3) pp. 8vo. Orig. wrappers. – Hamburg, Paris, and Bologna, The Odyssey Press (Christian Wegner), December 1932.

First Odyssey Press edition, regarded as the definitive standard edition, specially revised, at the author’s request, by Stuart Gilbert. Composed in Baskerville type, cut by the Monotype Corporation. Printing and binding by Oscar Brandstetter, Abteilung Jakob Hegner, Leipzig. – (Accompanied by:) T.L.S. (in German) by the publisher Christian Wegner to the Swiss translator and literary scolar Fritz Güttinger (1907-1992) in which he acknowlidges that Stuart Gilbert, assistant of James Joyce, corrected more than 1000 printing errors and misleading text passages in order that the present edition is approved by the author as the final version, the only correct on the market. – Best.-Nr. 26968