A nice copy of this handsome, readable edition of James Joyce’s masterpiece. Sir Michael Howard OM CH CBE MC (1922-2019), the distinguished military historian, was born in the year of the novel’s first publication. His ink ownership on the flyleaf is dated ‘March the fifth, 1943’ when he was twenty and a second lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards. In September that year he took part in the landings at Salerno. I rather doubt that this book travelled with him to Italy, but it speaks highly of his culture and broad sympathies that he bought the book in the midst of war and with European civilisation under such threat.