Green cloth with black and gilt titling. Black jacket with white blue and yellow title design, and American College Dictionary ad on back. An early Random House book club edition of the 1946 reset/corrected edition, designed by Ernst Reichl, jacket design by E. McKnight Kaufferm with the foreword by Morris Ernst and the groundbreaking court decision by Judge Woolsey that allowed Ulysses to be printed and sold in the United States. Minor bumping, rubbing and edge wear to boards. Discoloration and white transfer to spine. Heavy chipping with missing section and wear to jacket. Secure spine, clean unmarked pages.