Bruce Levy
2000 WINNER: DeGolyer Award for American Bookbinding

JAMES JOYCE (1882 - 1941). Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. Printed for Sylvia Beach by Maurice Darantiere at Dijon. First edition, no. 313 of 1000 copies. 23 x 18 cm. Bridwell Library Special Collections. Design binding by Bruce R. Levy, Nevada City, CA, 2000 - 2003.

Pale "Ulysses" blue leather laminated conservation boards, both boards with panels and title tooled in black, title of bottom board with letters Y, E, S gilt. Binding is based on the beveled fifteenth-century "K-118" structure, with five raised bands on spine. Both doublures carved and molded in relief in brown calf after photographs (of "lovers" and "Molly") by the binder, imprinting reversed images on black suede flyleaves. Original paper wrapper bound in. In half leather blue clamshell box.