Ulysses finds a new home...

I had a wonderful copy of Ulysses. It was a fourth printing of the first edition by Shakespeare and Co. with wonderful ephemera (including the orginal invoice, on S. Beach's letterhead and in her hand, to a NYer who traveled to Paris to get a banned book). It was one of my very favorite items (I have admitted before my weakness for Joyce). That it sold tonight was nice...it is always nice when a great book sells.

What made my night was how pleased the new owner appears to be with it already. They very clearly love it as I did...less for it being an early printing of a great work and much more so because of how the ephemera and inscriptions/marginalia so clearly put it in time and place. I am very pleased a great book sold. I am more pleased that the new owner is so excited to possess it. I am, tonight, a matchmaker.