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Description: Joyce, James. Ulysses. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential novels of the 20th century. A scarce "Press Copy" for Arthur Symons (1865-1945), featuring a loosely-inserted photograph of Joyce, signed & inscribed to Symons, the verso of photograph stamped by Shakespeare & Company. First English edition [one of 2,000 copies, but this being an unnumbered press review copy], London: Published for The Egoist Press by John Rodker, Paris, 1922. Quarto, delicate paper covers in the distinctive blue chosen by Joyce, pp. [x], [iii], 4-732, [i]. Housed in a blue solander box crafted by George Bayntun in 1947, the invoice still present and loosely inserted. 2,000 copies of the first English edition were printed, hundreds of which were smuggled to the UK & USA, intercepted and destroyed. It's reported that the U.S. Post Office burned around 500 copies. This unnumbered press copy is scarcer still, being 'one of six' according to an accompanying typed note. Ulysses was banned in the US until 1934, and the UK until 1936. Together with Imaging Ulysses, by Richard Hamilton inscribed for the vendor by Stephen Coppel [curator of the exhibition at British Museum], 'For Yvonne & Dennis. A Souvenir of your visit to the BM exhibition & in memory of your showing me Joyce in 1980! With warmest wishes, Stephen, 7 Feb 2002', plus folded exhibition poster, flyer and programme Arthur William Symons (1865-1945) was an English poet and critic who played an important role in the development of Joyce's career. Symons's own work was featured in the famous March 1918 issue of The Little Review, in which Ulysses made its debut appearance