This dude is a whopper. Coming in at 11 1/8 inches long, with a breadth of 8 1/2 inches and just about exactly 1 inch thick. I weighs, I would say, about 3 ish pounds.
Or
28.2575 centimetres long, 21.59 Centimetres wide, and just a smidge over 2 and a half centimetres thick. And 0.0714286 Stones
I figure going metric would be an appropriate offering to the spirit of Mr. Joyce and his dear Ireland. Although, now that I've just now typed that, I think that he might have been living in Paris, at the time of writing this book. Gonna try to remember to look that up later.
The cover, I would say, is in pretty good shape. Although it looks like they took a jpeg and stretched it out. It shows a pixelated portrayal of Mr. Joyce looking sharp, holding a smoke and looking at something to his left. Topping it off with a green $2 sticker at the top left to balance it out.
It bugs me, that we have to but dollar sign before the number. I don't have a lot of experience typing dollar amounts, but when I do, I always type the number, backspace, look at the keyboard, hit shift and 4 and then type the number again.
we should change that.
On the spine, with the front facing way from me, reads "Ulysses by James Joyce Unabridged 1922 Original Version. This confirms my thinking about the Late 1800's - Early 1900's. (see my first post) and a redundant copy of his name on the other end of the spine.
Lets see... the back, solid black, just slightly roughed up. a little nick at the top left corner and a tiny bend at the top. UPC is 9781548813444, another tiny little barcode with 9000 > above it.
and the ISBN is 978154...its actually the same as the UPC. Thought they were usually different.
