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Originally Posted by winkler
A pretty high percentage of the first editions of Ulysses have many or most their pages uncut, meaning no one has ever even opened those pages, let alone read the words on them. Hemingway claimed to be a big fan, but his copy is in a library in Boston with its pages uncut after the first few chapters.
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Funny story. Googling I find several variations on the same Hemingway story. Some say he only cut the last chapter, which is apparently famous for a sex scene.
Here's a more generous soul who says he only left half the pages uncut.
The closest thing to real evidence I can find it this:
Hemingway's Reading, 1910-1940
It's ambiguous, but one interpretation of the link above is that Hemingway had two copies of Ulysses, one an "unbound press copy," and the other an "edition . . . not in Key West."
Maybe this is the kind of story that's too good to fact check.