Ulysses by James Joyce, Penguin

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

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Penguin’s first paperback edition of Ulysses, published as Modern Classics 3000.

Mike Dempsey comments:

Penguin’s master typographer Hans Schmoller (1916–1985) designed this elegant cover in 1969 [1968]. Selecting the perfect typeface Spectrum , modifying the capital letters and arranging it perfectly on the blackest of backgrounds, making the result timeless and beautiful.

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The interior – starting with a short bio of Joyce – is set in Plantin.

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The open caps on the title page aren’t from Jan van Krimpen’s Open Kapitalen as one might expect. Instead, they are from Max Caflisch’s similar Columna , here used with an alternate Y.

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The back cover has a drawing of James Joyce by Augustus John.

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