A first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, found at the bottom of an old cardboard box, is expected to make up to £10,000 (€14,542) at auction in Salisbury, Wiltshire, next month.
The book still has its original blue dust jacket and is number 564 of the first 1,000 copies. It is printed on handmade paper and was published by Shakespeare and Company, the celebrated Paris book shop, in 1922.
Liz Merry, a book specialist at Woolley and Wallis where the book will be sold on April 5th, said: "It was among a lot of old books which came in from a local private house. They were all packed into 28 old cardboard boxes and, without exaggeration, this was at the bottom of the last box.
"This edition is very scarce in good condition because the wrappers are very delicate . . . The owner had no idea how it was acquired by the family."