Fritz Senn

So he came here and in the spring of 1930, Joyce was successfully operated.

So he owed his eyesight actually to Professor Vogt.

Professor Vogt was a very special person.

He had a great interest in the arts as well.

So he would never ask his patients who were artists or writers to pay in cash.

He asked them for a first edition or a valuable book or a painting.

And at the donation ceremony, his grandchildren told us that they have a substantial arts collection.

And they were all kind of payments of medical fees from his patients.

He actually received eight books from Joyce.

And the most precious one is this first edition of Ulysses that he gave Vogt after the eye operation.

More in her line.

You read where his finger opened.

All the dollar bills her husband gave her were spent in the stores on wondrous gowns and costliest frillies.

For him, for Raoul.

The monetary value of this first edition of Ulysses is 250,000 euros at least.

And this is because it is a signed copy, which also has a dedication to Hélène Faulk, to someone.

Joyce rarely wrote a dedication.

He signed his books, but he very rarely wrote a dedication.

So this is one reason why this one is so valuable.

It has an inscription to Helen Vogt, James Joyce, Whitsuntide, 1930, Zurich.