A very good copy, an early rebind in black cloth with the name Lawrence S. Morris dated Paris 1926 to ffep indicating that this was rebound shortly after purchase. Lawrence S. Morris (1894–1992) graduated from Yale University and served as Chief of Cultural Exchange in the U.S. Embassy in France. Due to the binding the volume is internally in very good condition, some minor browning paper at edges as might be expected. The eighth printing of Ulysses, being the first following having the type entirely reset, work accomplished with Joyce's participation, one of the key Shakespeare and Company printings, nice early and desirable. Ulysses was printed (in English) by Shakespeare and Company, the independent bookstore in Paris which had been established in 1919 by the American expatriate Sylvia Beach - and which became the gathering-place for such literary greats as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and of course James Joyce. As is also noted on this volume's bibliographic history page, the first printing was published by Shakespeare and Company in 1922, the Tenth Printing was published in 1928, the type was entirely re-set to correct the legion of typographic errors in the hurried first printing that had carried through all the previous printings. Lacks original paper covers. An attractive, well preserved copy of an elusive edition.