James Joyce.
Ulysses. Published for the Egoist Press, London, by John Rodker, Paris, 1922.
Call Number: (RARE) PR 6019 .O9 U4 1922, c.1
Special Collections, Golda Meir Library

127k

Limited edition of 2000 copies on handmade paper. A longtime Joyce supporter, Harriet Weaver was determined to bring out her own edition of Ulysses. A socialist, she believed that her inheritance, "tainted by usury, was hers in trust," and had signed a sizeable inheritance over to Joyce. She sent Joyce a £200 advance for an English edition, which was published for the Egoist Press by John Rodker of Paris, and printed by Beach's printer Maurice Darentiere from the same plates as the first edition. Rodker laid in eight pages of Errata listing the over 200 typographical errors. Rodker's edition includes the statement, "First Published by Shakespeare and Company, Paris: February 1922. Published By the Egoist Press, London: October 1922. . . . The Publishers apologize for the typographical errors, a list of which is appended."

Beach's dire predictions had been correct; the English edition was plagued by censorship difficulties. 500 copies were originally sent to America, but were reportedly seized or burned by U.S. government authorities. Copies of these volumes have resurfaced, however, and it is possible that the books were seized but not destroyed. John Rodker produced a January 1923 run to replace the missing copies, with the limitation notice "This edition of 500 copies is specially reprinted to replace those destroyed in transit to the USA." All but three replacements were burned by English customs authorities at Folkestone.