[6], 628 pp. 25.5x16 cm. (10x6¼"), original red buckram, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. No. 114 of 425 copies. First Edition.

Signed by Joyce on the limitation-page. This is one of 125 copies for Great Britain; the other 300 copies were for the United States of America. Slocum & Cahoon A49. One of the most astonishing – and controversial – books ever written. Completed in 1939 after seventeen years of labor, it was received with a mix of reactions ranging from bafflement to delight to open hostility. This copy with pages unopened after p.248. With the bookplate of Sidney Dorfman.