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Descrizione: Paris Shakespeare and Company, 1922. The First Edition of Joyce s Great Work, 1 of 100 Copies Signed by Joyce JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies on Dutch handmade paper, out of a total of 1000, this being number 41. Signed by Joyce. Quarto (9 3/4 inches x 7 3/4 inches; 237 x 195 mm). [viii], 732, [1, colophon], [3, blank] pp. Of the 1,000 copies of the first edition, 100 were on Dutch handmade paper (measuring 23.7 x 19.5 cm.) and signed by Joyce, 150 were on vergé d Arches paper (measuring 26.2 x 20.1 cm.), and 750 were on handmade paper (measuring 23.7 x 18.5 cm.). The last two formats were not issued signed. Complete with flyleaves. Original blue printed wrappers. Uncut. Interior is extremely clean. Wrappers with some minor edge wear and rubbing. Fragile original spine with expected minimal chipping. Some loss along lower back joint and some small loss to the head and tail of spine and a few nicks along edges. Some very minor toning and foxing to first and last few leaves. Remnants of an old bookplate that was removed on front free endpaper. A very fresh copy, completely unsophisticated, superior in condition to how most copies are usually found. Housed in a custom blue cloth clamshell case with morocco label. "The novel is universally hailed as the most influential work of modern times" (Grolier Joyce 69). After working seven years on Ulysses, Joyce, desperate to find a publisher, turned to Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company in Paris. "Within a month of the publication, the first printing of Ulysses was practically sold out, and within a year Joyce had become a well-known literary figure. Ulysses was explosive in its impact on the literary world of 1922 . Then began the great game of smuggling the edition into countries where it was forbidden, especially England and the United States. The contraband article was transported across the seas and national borders in all sorts of cunning ways" (de Grazia, 27). Slocum and Cahoon A17. HBS 68153. $250,000. Codice articolo 68153

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Descrizione: Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1922. First edition, one of 750 numbered copies, this example is number 282. Quarto, original blue wrappers as issued. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Lewis Galantiere James Joyce Paris 11 February 1922." Ulysses was scheduled for publication on Joyce's fortieth birthday (February 2, 1922), but only two copies were ready on that date due to technical difficulties in printing the cover, the color of which Joyce wanted to match with the blue of the Greek flag. One of these was the copy delivered by Sylvia Beach to Joyce on February 2, which he then inscribed to his wife Nora, being the only known presentation copy to predate Galantiere's. The present copy in turn predates by two days the three copies presented to Sylvia Beach, Harriet Shaw Weaver and Margaret Anderson, and by three days the copy inscribed to Robert McAlmon, who helped Joyce prepare the final typescript. Galantiere was an American translator of French literature, writer, playwright and journalist. From 1920 to 1927 he was secretary of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, and came to know most of the literary figures of the day, including Hemingway. In a letter to Harriet Weaver of 17 April 1926, Joyce writes: "I am to read [from Finnegans Wake] . to a small group, this time including . a young American Galantiere who is preparing a course of lectures of Ulysses" (Joyce Letters vol 3, p 140). Slocum & Cahoon A17; Connolly The Modern Movement 42. In excellent condition with light rubbing, rebacked without the folding flaps. With Galantiere's marginal markings in pencil and in ink. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box. An exceptional rarity of this twentieth century milestone. Ulysses was published in Paris by Shakespeare & Company in 1922. "The novel is universally hailed as the most influential work of modern times" (Grolier Joyce 69). After working seven years on Ulysses, Joyce, desperate to find a publisher, turned to Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company in Paris. "Within a month of the publication, the first printing of Ulysses was practically sold out, and within a year Joyce had become a well-known literary figure. Ulysses was explosive in its impact on the literary world of 1922. Then began the great game of smuggling the edition into countries where it was forbidden, especially England and the United States. The contraband article was transported across the seas and national borders in all sorts of cunning ways" (de Grazia, 27). Codice articolo 19070

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Descrizione: Various Publishers/ Various Places: 1916 till 1939, 1939. Hardcover. Condizione: Wie neu. Condizione sovraccoperta: Wie neu. 1. Auflage. Up for sale is a collection of four works by James Joyce. It includes very fine and unrestored first editions of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922, and the signed limited English first edition of 1936 with the original flyer and original slipcase) and Finnegans Wake (1939, limited edition signed in original slipcase). You can order a catalogue of the collection from us or hava a look at all of our first or otherwise interesting editions of Joyce's works as well as books on the author and some paraphernalia at ygrbooks.ch. PLEASE NOTE that the near fine copy of Dubliners, shown in the pictures, has been sold and is no longer part of this collection. Signatur des Verfassers. Codice articolo 000521

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Descrizione: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. The Limited Editions Club: NY, 1935. Illus. by Henri Matisse. Six soft ground etchings hand-signed by Henri Matisse (Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 1869 - Nice, 1954) in pencil in the lower right margin. Numbered from the edition of 150 in pencil in the lower left margin. This is the only copy available of these etchings in their original buckram binding as issued. All other copies are individual lithographs for sale. All etchings are in fine condition. The buckram binding is in fine condition except for slight rubs to the buckram at the top and bottom of the spine, see picture. Image: 11 9/16 in x 9 1/16 in (29.4 cm x 23 cm) Sheet: 15 15/16 in x 12 7/16 in (40.5 cm x 31.6 cm). Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo 1011

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Descrizione: Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1922, 1922. First Edition; one of 750 numbered copies. Original publisher's wrappers. Minor rubbing and soiling of the wrappers; a little short of fine, but an excellent, unrestored copy. Never having read this effusively praised and influential book, this cataloguer will refrain from plagiarizing those who are actually familiar with it. In a custom clamshell box. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted. Codice articolo 27807

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Descrizione: Paris Shakespeare Press Paris, 1922. First edition, number 550 of 750 copies on handmade paper, from a total edition of 1000 copies. Original 'Greek flag' blue-green wrappers, lettered in white to upper cover. A fine copy, fresh and crisp, with just a trace of wear to a couple of corners and spine ends. Internally unimpeachable, with a contemporary pencil name and discreet bookplate to inside front wrapper. A stunning example and rare in this condition. The author's most famous work and tour de force of modern literature. The first printing of Ulysses consisted of 1000 numbered copies to be sold by subscription. Copies number 1-100 were printed on Holland handmade paper and each signed by Joyce; copies 101-250 were printed on vergé d'Arches and the remaining 750 copies on linen paper, the least expensive stock. Following a disastrous serialisation in the Little Review, it was to Sylvia Beach and her small Parisian bookshop, Shakespeare and Company that Joyce turned. Beach, like Andersen before her, had immediately seen the genius in Ulysses, and wrote to her mother that she might be soon to publish "the most important book of the age". A printer was found in Maurice Darantière of Dijon and publication was planned for October. The printing process was not nearly as straightforward as anticipated, due in part to Joyce's continual rewriting of the text and his and Beach's perfectionism in the printing process. The publication date was continually moved back and eventually 2 February 1922, Joyce's birthday, was settled upon. Copies were delivered in tranches and all 1000 of the first edition were sold within a month. It is now recognised as one of the key works of the twentieth century and the defining work of the modernist movement. Slocum A17; Connolly 42. Codice articolo 33546

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Descrizione: Shakespeare & Company, Paris, 1922. First edition, one of 750 numbered copies on handmade paper from a total edition of 1000 copies, this is number 992. Thick quarto, original blue and white wrappers. A near fine example, internally fresh and largely unopened, completely unrestored. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. This example contains the original prospectus with the tipped-on reproduction of the 1918 photo of Joyce by C. Ruf. The front panel of the prospectus has been amended, as often, to indicate the book "is now ready," and the original buyer must have jumped at the opportunity, as the order panel of the prospectus has been neatly cut away. Sisley Huddleston's 5 March 1922 review from The Observer is also laid in (though both items are in prophylactic sleeves that have prevented any offsetting). Also laid into the slipcase is some correspondence relating to the sale of this copy in 1972 by Duschnes in New York City. An exceptional example with noted provenance. Ulysses was published in Paris by Shakespeare & Company, 1922. It was a struggle for the author to find a publisher, a comic irony considering that Ulysses is "[u]niversally hailed as the most influential work of modern times" (Grolier Joyce 69). Ulysses was an immediate success. The first printing sold out, and "within a year Joyce had become a well-known literary figure. Ulysses was explosive in its impact on the literary world of 1922" (de Grazia, 27). Even so, the book faced difficulties in global reception. It was banned in the U.K. and was prosecuted for the obscenity in the Nausicaa episode (Ellmann, 1982). Joyce's inspiration for the novel began as a young boy reading Charles Lamb's Adventures of Ulysses and writing an essay entitled "My Favorite Hero" after being impressed by the wholeness of the character (Goreman, 1939). The idea for the novel grew from a story in Dubliners in 1906, which Joyce expanded into a short book in 1907, before reconceptualizing it as the heady novel in 1914 (Ellmann, 1982). The book can initially seem unstructured and chaotic, and Joyce admitted that he "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant" (The Observer, 2000). The French translator Stuart Gilbert published a defense of Ulysses shortly after its publication in which he supported the novel's use of obscenity and explained its internal structure and links to the Odyssey against accusations of ambiguity. Every episode, Gilbert explained, is connected to the Odyssey by theme, technique, and correspondence between characters. Another instance of Ulysses' literary contribution is his use of stream-of-consciousness, a technique employing carefully structured prose, both humorous and charactering, and involving puns and parodies. Joyce was a precursor to the use of stream of consciousness in the later decades. Similar narrative techniques were used by his contemporaries Virginia Wolfe, William Faulkner, and Italo Svevo. Their style can be better characterized as an "interior monologue, rather than stream of consciousness, is the appropriate term for the style in which [subjective experience] is recorded, both in The Waves and in Woolf's writing generally" (Stevenson, 1992). Codice articolo 3053

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Descrizione: Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922, 1922. Small quarto (233 x 178 mm). Contemporary blue half morocco with the original wrappers bound-in, decorative gilt spine, blue linen sides, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Housed in a custom made blue cloth solander box, red calf label. Joints rubbed but professionally refurbished; bound without the final blank. An excellent copy. First edition, first printing, number 795 from a total edition of 1,000 copies, one of 750 copies on vergé à barbes. Signed by Joyce on the blank before the half-title: "James Joyce, Paris, 26 February 1924". At this time Joyce was already at work on Finnegans Wake and on the previous day (25 February) had penned a postcard to Ford Madox Ford asking "can you please let me have my typescript back and the first proofs?"; Ford, editing the transatlantic review, was to publish the first fragment in the April 1924 issue (see Richard Ellmann, Letters of James Joyce, vol. III, 1966, p. 89). Ulysses was published on 2 February 1922 in imitation of the traditional three-tiered French format aimed at both connoisseurs and readers: 100 copies were printed on Dutch handmade paper and signed by Joyce; 150 copies were printed on heavier vergé d'Arches to create a large paper format; and the remaining 750 copies formed a small format trade issue, printed on less expensive vergé à barbes stock. Slocum & Cahoon A17. Codice articolo 113181

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Descrizione: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Specially bound in full leather in 2 volumes. This is number 389 of a the special 750 copies printed on handmade, laid paper. Signed and dated in ink by James Joyce: "James Joyce, Paris, 9. ix. 1924" on the front endpaper following the front blue wrapper. Joyce's Signature has been authenticated by Glenn Horowitz of NYC. Volume I contains 370 pages. Volume II begins on page 371 and and ends on p. 732 with the "Trieste-Zurich-Paris, 1914-1921" dateline. The next page is printed in capital letters: "Printed for Sylvia Beach by Maurice Darantiere at Dijon, France." The rear wrapper is not present at the end of volume two. Both volumes have been specially bound in full leather with 4 gilt rectangular rules and a delicate inner rectangle of hand-tooled chain patterns culminating in larger floral designs at the inside corners of the front and rear boards. Both front boards bear the name of "JOAN" in vertical gilt capital letters. The spine of volume I is missing 6" of the 9.5" of the spine length, but the top portion with "I" is present. The front blue wrapper printed in White with "Ulysses" by James Joyce is clean and crisp, as is the text throughout volumes one and two. The top edges are gilded. And there are predominantly orange and grey marbled endpapers. There is hand-tooled dentelle gilding along the front and rear inside edges of the boards as well. Both volumes have some pencil scrawlings on the front endpapers, but nothing affecting the text. Despite the unusual two-volume format and the missing rear wrapper, modern first edition authority Allen Ahearn opined that this signed and dated copy in Joyce's hand of one of the 750 specially printed first editions is perhaps as scarce as one of the 100 signed copies, given that none of the 750 copies was issued with Joyce's signature. This copy was signed and dated two years after publication in 1924. This edition is limited to 1000 copies: 100 copies (signed) on Dutch handmade paper numbered from 1 to 100; 150 copies on vergé d'Arches numbered from 101 to 250; 750 copies on handmade paper numbered from 251 to 1000. This is copy No. 389. "The publisher asks the reader s indulgence for typographical errors unavoidable in the exceptional circumstances. S.B." In a review in The Dial, T.S. Eliot said of Ulysses: "I hold this book to be the most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape." He went on to claim that Joyce was not at fault if people after him did not understand it: "The next generation is responsible for its own soul; a man of genius is responsible to his peers, not to a studio full of uneducated and undisciplined coxcombs." The book has its critics; Virginia Woolf stated that "Ulysses was a memorable catastrophe immense in daring, terrific in disaster." Ulysses has been called "the most prominent landmark in modernist literature", a work where life's complexities are depicted with "unprecedented, and unequalled, linguistic and stylistic virtuosity." That style has been stated to be the finest example of the use of stream-of-consciousness in modern fiction, with the author going deeper and farther than any other novelist in handling interior monologue. This technique has been praised for its faithful representation of the flow of thought, feeling, mental reflection, and shifts of mood. (Wikipedia) First Edition, One of 750 numbered copies. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo 310

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Descrizione: John Lane, 1936. Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. This Limited Edition of 100 copies is SIGNED by James Joyce. A beautiful copy bound in the original vellum with only slight wear to the edges. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the panels. The pages are clean. There is no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy SIGNED by the author. We buy James Joyce First Editions. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo ABE-7692268158

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Descrizione: London John Lane, The Bodley Head 1936, 1936. First authorized English edition; one of 100 copies signed by Joyce (of a total edition of 1000) printed on mould-made paper bound in vellum. 8vo, luxuriously bound in a beautiful designed binding by Eric Gill of full vellum with his gilt decorations of a bow on the upper cover, and a gilt titled spine, t.e.g. Housed in the original publishers patterned boards slipcase. 766 pp. A very fine copy. One of the most handsome we have seen. VERY IMPORTANT LITERARY FIRST. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. This an extremely impressive copy of the first authorized English edition, signed by Joyce. IT IS ALSO THE FIRST EDITION of ULYSSES PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. The superb binding executed In full vellum has been especially designed for this great book. DESIGNS FOR THE BINDING, EXECUTED IN GILT WERE DESIGNED BY ERIC GILL. The typeface is extremely attractive and very readable, the printing on fine paper makes the book unusually handsome and presents what is perhaps the most beautiful printing of ULYSSES ever accomplished. Along with the text, there are a series of appendices attached including copies of the International Protest against the unauthorized and mutilated printings of ULYSSES done especially in the United States; a copy of the injunction issued to prevent Samuel Roth from continuing his piracies of ULYSSES; a copy of Joyce s letter to Bennet Cerf concerning the promotion, legal fight and publication of ULYSSES on the author s behalf; a copy of the decision of the US District Court which was rendered on December 6, 1933 which lifted the ban on ULYSSES and a copy of the subsequent decision of the US Court of Appeals rendered in August of the following year which upheld the original decision; a copy of the forward to the first American edition and a bibiography of the works of James Joyce. ULYSSES can be viewed as the pinnacle of the Modernist movement, and its impact on all subsequent western literature is unmistakable. Such writers as Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Malcolm Lowry, and Anthony Burgess have all paid tribute, consciously or unconsciously, to Joyce's influence. Burgess as well pronounced it the greatest single work in the English literature of this century, and he is not alone in that opinion. Codice articolo 20503

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Descrizione: Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. Softcover. Condizione: Wie neu. Condizione sovraccoperta: Wie neu. 1. Auflage. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First Edition, First Printing. Original blue printed wrappers. 4to. This is number 986 of the edition of 750 numbered copies (of a total edition of 1000 copies). Very minor wear to extremities of the spine and some slight toning to the wrappers, else a lovely copy: uncut, mostly unopened and untouched by any restorer. Small contemporary portrait of Joyce by C. Rup mounted on the recto of the half-title together with the neat signature of Frank Layton, who bought this copy on the 16th of March in 1922 according to Sylvia Beach's "Ulysses" Notebook. It formed part of the Allan D. McGuire Collection of Cyril Connolly's "The Modern Movement - 100 Key Books from England, France and America 1880-1950" and was also exhibited in the "Allspace in a Notshall" Exhibition in Zürich in 1991. Complete with a beautiful three-quarter morocco slipcase and all the documentation of provenance and exhibtion. The Book of Books on any list of modern fiction and a great and funny read at that, which comes here in beautiful condition and with a full record of provenance. This item is part of our Catalogue 10: James Joyce, which you can browse through at ygrbooks.ch. Codice articolo 000171

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Descrizione: Shakespeare & Company, Paris, 1922. First edition - one of 750 numbered copies on hand-made paper of a total edition of 1,000. Some restoration of paper to the spine, light soiling to wrappers but a very good copy in solander cloth case. Codice articolo 659

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Descrizione: Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922, 1922. Small quarto. Original blue wrappers, titles to cover in white. Housed in a custom brown cloth flat-backed box. Minor loss to spine ends, edges rubbed with some typical separation at spine, couple of marks to wrappers and slightly sunned, colour still strong, slight crease to foot of front wrapper and head of rear wrapper with concomitant short closed tear. A fresh copy, entirely unrestored, and with a few leaves unopened. First edition, first printing, number 475 of 750 copies, from a total edition of 1,000 copies. Ulysses was published in imitation of the traditional three-tiered French format aimed at both connoisseurs and readers: 100 copies were printed on Dutch handmade paper and signed by Joyce; 150 large paper copies were printed on heavier vergé d'Arches, and the remaining 750 copies formed this slightly smaller format trade issue. Ulysses was published on 2 February 1922. Sylvia Beach's notebook records that this copy was sent to the American book wholesalers, Stevens and Brown, on 18 February. Harriet Shaw Weaver, the proprietor of the Egoist Press and Joyce's agent for Ulysses, pressed Sylvia Beach to grant a larger discount to wholesalers and export agents for the work, citing Stevens and Brown as an example. Weaver noted that they were unlikely "to buy copies to hold up and sell at an advanced price. Would you agree to 15%? it was scarcely worth their while to take any trouble over the book at a discount of 10% because their customers, being booksellers, they will themselves have to allow some discount" (Rainey, p. 59). Slocum & Cahoon A17; Rainey, Lawrence S., Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture (1998). Codice articolo 132928

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Descrizione: London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936. Hardcover. Condizione: Wie neu. Condizione sovraccoperta: Wie neu. 1. Auflage. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936. First Edition printed in England. Fine (vellum boards a tiny bit soiled, but a fine copy) in a near fine original slipcase, which is lightly worn at the corners, as almost always. No. 69 of 100 numbered copies signed by Joyce, printed on mould-made paper and bound in calf vellum out of a total edition of 1'000. With the Bodley Head's printed announcement of publication laid in. Housed in a beautiful, dark blue custom-made folding case. This item is part of our Catalogue 10: James Joyce, which you can browse through at ygrbooks.ch. Signatur des Verfassers. Codice articolo 000522

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Descrizione: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies. This copy is SIGNED by James Joyce and Henri Matisse, the illustrator. A spectacular copy with slight wear to the spine and edges. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a wonderful copy SIGNED by the author and illustrator. We buy SIGNED Joyce First Editions. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo ABE-7002616142

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Descrizione: John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1936. 264 x 194 mm. (10 3/8 x 7 5/8"). 8 p.l., 765, [1] pp. No. 7 OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. (There were also 900 unsigned copies.) First Edition Printed in England. Original vellum, gilt titling on spine, large stylized gilt bow on each cover, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed and MOSTLY UNOPENED. In the original (slightly worn but very solid) black and white patterned paper slipcase with paper label, housed in a fine silk-lined gray morocco clamshell box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Title printed in blue and black. Prospectus laid in at front. Slocum & Cahoon A-23. Perhaps a hint of smudging to vellum (or perhaps just a natural variation in its color), but, in any case, A VIRTUALLY MINT COPY, the binding entirely unworn, and the especially bright and mostly unopened text pristine. Billed in the laid-in prospectus as the "final and definitive edition," this is the first printing of Joyce's masterwork actually to be done in Britain. Joyce's chronicle of Leopold Bloom's odyssey through Dublin on 16 June 1904 (the date of Joyce's first date with his wife Nora) excited much controvery upon publication in 1922 and was for years a target of censorship, especially in the U.S. and U.K. In an article in the "Clarion" published two years before the present edition, J. B. Priestley lamented the "ridiculous" circumstance of being unable to obtain (except through underground means) a work "hailed as a masterpiece by writers . . . all over the world." He said that "probably no novel of our time has been more often mentioned in print than 'Ulysses,' yet the actual number of English-speaking readers who have read it is very small." Our edition is beautifully printed and notable for its accuracy. As the recent Ursus catalogue entry states, "the Shakespeare & Co. first edition included well over 5,000 departures from the author's own text, thus making any page erroneous at least seven times per page on average. The combination of an American publisher (Sylvia Beach), a French printer and typesetter (Maurice Darantière), [and] typists of various nationalities, all trying to interpret the difficult handwriting and unpredictable syntax of a half-blind Irish genius, resulted in a first edition inundated with inaccuracies." The present version remedies this by incorporating corrections made by Joyce's friend Stuart Gilbert (in preparation for his 1932 Odyssey Press edition). Copies like ours, from the run of 100, were printed on mould-made paper and bound in vellum designed by Eric Gill; the 900 unsigned copies were printed on Japon vellum paper and bound in linen buckram. Previous owners apparently cared just to read Molly Bloom's soliloquy, as those are the only pages that have been opened. In addition to the novel, our copy contains appendices with materials related to litigation over the publication of an expurgated edition in the United States, and a bibliography of works by Joyce. Billed in the laid-in prospectus as the "final and definitive edition," this is the first printing of Joyce's masterwork actually to be done in Britain. Joyce's chronicle of Leopold Bloom's odyssey through Dublin on 16 June 1904 (the date of Joyce's first date with his wife Nora) excited much controvery upon publication in 1922 and was for years a target of censorship, especially in the U.S. and U.K. In an article in the "Clarion" published two years before the present edition, J. B. Priestley lamented the "ridiculous" circumstance of being unable to obtain (except through underground means) a work "hailed as a masterpiece by writers . . . all over the world." He said that "probably no novel of our time has been more often mentioned in print than 'Ulysses,' yet the actual number of English-speaking readers who have read it is very small." Our edition is beautifully printed and notable for its accuracy. As the recent Ursus catalogue entry states, "the Shakespeare & Co. first edition included well over 5,000 departures from the author's own text, thus making any page erroneous at least seven times per page on average. The combination of an American publisher (Sylvia Beach), a French printer and typesetter (Maurice Darantière), [and] typists of various nationalities, all trying to interpret the difficult handwriting and unpredictable syntax of a half-blind Irish genius, resulted in a first edition inundated with inaccuracies." The present version remedies this by incorporating corrections made by Joyce's friend Stuart Gilbert (in preparation for his 1932 Odyssey Press edition). Copies like ours, from the run of 100, were printed on mould-made paper and bound in vellum designed by Eric Gill; the 900 unsigned copies were printed on Japon vellum paper and bound in linen buckram. Previous owners apparently cared just to read Molly Bloom's soliloquy, as those are the only pages that have been opened. In addition to the novel, our copy contains appendices with materials related to litigation over the publication of an expurgated edition in the United States, and a bibliography of works by Joyce. No. 7 OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. (There were also 900 unsigned copies.) First Edition Printed in England. Codice articolo CAH1215

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Descrizione: Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922, 1922. Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. This is one of 750 numbered copies (of an edition of 1000) of Ulysses, the most sought-after book of 20th-century literature. Early in 1918, Ezra Pound secured Ulysses, then in progress, for the avant-garde American literary magazine The Little Review. Joyce was delighted to know that his book was being read and talked about, if only in modernist circles, and the serial publication spurred the author on as he tried to keep pace with the magazine s schedule. Several numbers were seized as obscene and burned by the United States Post Office, the obscenity trial beginning on February 14, 1921 resulted in the editors conviction. The serial publication of Ulysses ceased, and the American publishers who had considered publishing the book abandoned the project. Within weeks Joyce agreed to Sylvia Beach s offer that the first edition appear in Paris under her Shakespeare and Company imprint in 1922. Just prior to publication, Joyce warned, The pity is the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in some serious way, and on the honor of a gentleman, there is not one single serious line in it. He added, In Ulysses I have recorded, simultaneously, what a man says, see, thinks, and that such seeing, thinking, saying does, to what you Freudians call the sub-conscious but as for psychoanalysis, it s neither more nor less than blackmail (Ellmann). T.S. Eliot told Virginia Woolf after reading Ulysses, How could anyone write again after achieving the immense prodigy of the last chapter? Gertrude Stein commented, Joyce is good. He is a good writer. People like him because he is incomprehensible and anybody can understand him. Connolly, The Modern Movement A17. Slocum and Cahoon, Bibliography of James Joyce A17. Original blue wrappers. Some wear and signs of handling, but a very good, unrestored copy. Quarter morocco slipcase. Codice articolo ABE-1564604392326

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Descrizione: Shakespeare & Co., Paris, 1922. Leather (wraps Bound in ). Condizione: VG+. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG+. 1st Edition. Full gilt lettered turquoise leather with the original turquoise wraps bound in. Housed in matching clamshell box. This is the first edition limited to 750 copies on handmade paper of which this is #629. The wraps are complete (minus spine) with some scuffing and minor marking to them. Otherwise a very sharp clean copy attractively rebound. The most influential, if not the greatest, novel of the 20th century by the greatest of all wordsmiths published by the adoring Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare and Co. Joyce was the only author she ever published. What a choice! Size: 8vo. Codice articolo 20837

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Descrizione: Paris: Shakespeare & Co, 1922, 1922. First Edition. One of 750 copies. Publisher's wrappers; some splitting and tears, mostly, as usual, on the spine, but fortunately unrestored; very good; in a custom clamshell box with chemise. Laid into this copy in the original prospectus (creased and splitting) and a typed letter, signed, from Sylvia Beach (on Shakespeare & Co. letterhead), dated July 4, 1921, to poet Wilbur Underwood, enclosing the prospectus, noting that she is publishing it in France as '.an edition in England or America being out of the question.' All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted. Codice articolo 38170

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Descrizione: Shakespeare, 1922. Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Limited Edition. Original blue paper wrappers lettered in white. A very well preserved unsophisticated copy without any restoration, light shelf-wear to spine edges and margins of wrappers, contents bright and clean. FIRST EDITION, IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Loosely inserted ALS from Harriet Weaver on Egoist Press stationary relating to issues of The Egoist (mentions Portrait of the Artist & Ulysses) and a separate page listing various volumes available and prices (2 pages). Housed in solander box. Codice articolo 50297

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Descrizione: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Perfect condition, in original shipping box and glassine. Signed by Joyce and Matisse. Extremely rare in this condition. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo 1006

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Descrizione: Shakespeare & Co, Paris, 1922. paperback. Condizione: very good(-). Limited. Thick large 8vo, original blue wrappers printed in white. Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1922. First edition. From a total printing of 1000, this is one of only 150 large paper copies on verge d'Arches, measuring 10.375 x 8.9375 inches. Housed in a blue half morocco clam-shell case. A large, uncut copy in original wrappers, paper lacking from the spine and with small chips at the joints; faint discoloration on copyright and limitation pages from old paper once laid in; a handful of other pages with brownish spatter. Number 174 of 1000 numbered copies. Although the series of 750 were numbered 251- 1000 they were actually printed first. The series of 100 was done next, and the large format run last. Because of the larger format the printer had to reimpose the forms, which gave Joyce the opportunity to correct one typo, "borad" to "board" on p. 31, l. 10. S & C. A17. Codice articolo 233256

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Descrizione: John Lane The Bodley Head: London, 1936. Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Crown4to, xiii, 766 p. Original beautifully designed full vellum binding by Eric Gill with his gilt decorations of Homeric bows on the upper and lower cover, gilt titled backstrip, top edge gilt, cream endpapers. Faint mottling of the vellum as usual, a hint of a bruise at the head of the backstrip, some peculiar pale purple speckles to the verso of the rear fep otherwise a superb completely unopened and fine copy, complete with the Bodley Head folded printed announcement of publication laid in. There is no writing or bookplates in the book. Provided with a custom made heavy duty black cloth covered slipcase. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo 15863

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Descrizione: Shakespeare & Company, Paris, 1922. First edition, one of 750 numbered copies on handmade paper from a total edition of 1000 copies, this is number number 347. Thick quarto, original blue and white wrappers. In excellent condition, the volume is square and tight, without marks of any kind, with some some restoration to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A nice example. Ulysses was published in Paris by Shakespeare & Company, 1922. It was a struggle for the author to find a publisher, a comic irony considering that Ulysses is "[u]niversally hailed as the most influential work of modern times" (Grolier Joyce 69). Ulysses was an immediate success. The first printing sold out, and "within a year Joyce had become a well-known literary figure. Ulysses was explosive in its impact on the literary world of 1922" (de Grazia, 27). Even so, the book faced difficulties in global reception. It was banned in the U.K. and was prosecuted for the obscenity in the Nausicaa episode (Ellmann, 1982). Joyce's inspiration for the novel began as a young boy reading Charles Lamb's Adventures of Ulysses and writing an essay entitled "My Favorite Hero" after being impressed by the wholeness of the character (Goreman, 1939). The idea for the novel grew from a story in Dubliners in 1906, which Joyce expanded into a short book in 1907, before reconceptualizing it as the heady novel in 1914 (Ellmann, 1982). The book can initially seem unstructured and chaotic, and Joyce admitted that he "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant" (The Observer, 2000). The French translator Stuart Gilbert published a defense of Ulysses shortly after its publication in which he supported the novel's use of obscenity and explained its internal structure and links to the Odyssey against accusations of ambiguity. Every episode, Gilbert explained, is connected to the Odyssey by theme, technique, and correspondence between characters. Another instance of Ulysses' literary contribution is his use of stream-of-consciousness, a technique employing carefully structured prose, both humorous and charactering, and involving puns and parodies. Joyce was a precursor to the use of stream of consciousness in the later decades. Similar narrative techniques were used by his contemporaries Virginia Wolfe, William Faulkner, and Italo Svevo. Their style can be better characterized as an "interior monologue, rather than stream of consciousness, is the appropriate term for the style in which [subjective experience] is recorded, both in The Waves and in Woolf's writing generally" (Stevenson, 1992). Codice articolo 92994

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Descrizione: Paris Shakespeare and Co. January 1924, 1924. First Edition, the fourth printing. AN IMPORTANT AND RARE COPY INSCRIBED BY JOYCE on a preliminary blank To A.K. Griggs / James Joyce / Paris/ 16.iv [1]934 With 4 pp. of "Ulysses Additional Corrections" bound in at the end. 8vo, in a French binding of wine-red cloth, the spine with black morocco lettering label gilt, and with a fine slipcase, marbled endleaves, and with the original white wrappers printed in blue bound in. 736 pp. A fine copy, the paper lightly browned overall as is usual with this printing, some marginal tears or chips, primarily at the prelims. THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVEL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. A RARE AND IMPORTANT INSCRIBED COPY OF JOYCE S MASTERWORK. ULYSSES can be viewed as the pinnacle of the Modernist movement, and its impact on all subsequent western literature is unmistakable. Such writers as Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Malcolm Lowry, and Anthony Burgess have all paid tribute, consciously or unconsciously, to Joyce's influence. Burgess as well pronounced it the greatest single work in the English literature of the last century, and he is not alone in that opinion. According to James Spoerri, "This fortunate combination of printer and publisher resulted in the appearance of ULYSSES as a book whose physical aspect is particularly suited to its content. It is a fat and inviting volume, the blue and white of its covers subtly evocative of the Greece whose epic it so closely parallels" (quoted in the catalogue for the Garden Sale, Sotheby's 1989, first edition, first issue). "Universally hailed as the most influential work of modern times" (Grolier Joyce 69). After working for seven years on Ulysses, Joyce, desperate to find a publisher, turned to Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company in Paris. "Within a month of the publication, the first printing of Ulysses was practically sold out, and within a year Joyce had become a well-known literary figure. Ulysses was explosive in its impact on the literary world of 1922. Then began the great game of smuggling the edition into countries where it was forbidden, especially England and the United States. The contraband article was transported across the seas and national borders in all sorts of cunning ways." (de Grazia, 27). Arthur Kingsland Griggs, the recipient of this copy of ULYSSES, inscribed by Joyce, lived from 1891-1934. He was editor and translator of Léon Daudet s MEMOIRS (1925) and the MEMOIRS OF QUEEN HORTENSE (1928). He also published MY PARIS, AN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN PARIS FROM THE WORKS OF CONTEMPORARY FRENCH WRITERS (1932) and wrote a popular (and often reprinted) guidebook, PARIS FOR EVERYMAN - HER PRESENT, HER PAST & HER ENVIRONS (1926). COPIES OF ULYSSES INSCRIBED BY JOYCE ARE TRULY RARE. THIS IS A HANDSOME AND DESIRABLE COPY OF A CORNERSTONE LITERARY WORK. Codice articolo 19491

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Descrizione: The Bodley Head, 1936. Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London John Lane, The Bodley Head 1936. First authorized English edition; one of 100 copies signed by Joyce (this is No. 20) printed on mould-made paper bound in vellum. 8vo, luxuriously bound in a beautifully designed binding by Eric Gill in full vellum with his gilt decorations of a bow on the upper cover, and gilt titled spine, Housed in custom made slipcase. 766 pp. This is an extremely impressive copy of the first authorized English edition, signed by Joyce. it s the supreme modernist novel and epitomizes the concept of industrial strength psychological realism. It was condemned as scandalous erotica, in the days when safe sex meant a padded headboard. It was stoutly suppressed by authorities fearful of any novel portraying chastity as an unlit lamp, or adult abstinence as malnutrition. But millennials don t care what squares thought about sex 97 years ago, or that from the 1940s to the 1970s Ulysses meaning was mused upon as a cypher in some language twins teach each other. They just face it as a long and arduous 732 page, 265,000 word legacy, a test of focus, set in turn of the century Dublin, and only worth the effort because it recaptures life in a signally fascinating time and place. So the motivation for reading Ulysses has been protean in each generation, but it always stayed the best of its type, and that flexibility of appeal is the profile of conscious art. Let s try to narrow the gap between you and James Joyce. Here he is on the moon: Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible. This is Ulysses. Ready to read it? Here s a boost. Don t hesitate. Proceed aggressively. If your comprehension lapses even for pages at a time it s better to push on seeing as you re going to get lost in the random flux, where things encountered early are not explained until much later, so you ll have to reread it anyway. Rare Collector's Item. Don't wait until 2022. Buy it now. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo 11

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Descrizione: Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1922, 1922. Quarto in eights. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in greenish blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, twin rule to boards gilt, Greek key to turn-ins gilt, japan vellum doublures, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a matching leather entry slipcase. A fine copy. First edition, first printing, number 164 of 150 large paper copies numbered between 101 and 250. Ulysses was published in imitation of the traditional three-tiered French format aimed at both connoisseurs and readers: 100 copies were printed on Dutch handmade paper and signed by Joyce; 150 copies were printed on heavier vergé d'Arches to create this large paper format; and the remaining 750 copies formed a small format trade issue, printed on less expensive vergé à barbes stock. With its generous margins, the large paper issue is the most aesthetically pleasing of the three. Codice articolo 103479

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Descrizione: Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1922. Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Copy No. 837 with a beautiful hand crafted, blue green leather binding by Chelsea Bindery protects this work of art. The hardcover is in fine condition with a sturdy and handsome slipcase to house this treasure. This edition is limited to 1000 copies: 100 copies (signed) on Dutch handmade paper numbered from 1 to 100; 150 copies on Verge D'Arches numbered from 101 to 250; 750 copies on handmade paper numbered from 251 to 1000. "Joyce's masterpiece tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on one day in 1904. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature and was hailed as a work of genius. Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially eloquent, resourcefully comic and generously humane, Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience." - Shakespeare and Company website. This copy is in fine condition with deckled edges, top edge gold gilded. There is a slight water mark upper two first pages. Slight closed tear to middle section of publishers note page and minor marks on first pages; overall clean and crisp copy. Pages show mild tanning at the edges - normal age. Original beautiful jewel blue wrappers shows wear and slight tear bottom right. pages 693 - 700 show one Small brown mark at the bottom pages, fading from the mid pages out one or two (images shown). Please request more images if desired. Ephemera includes a newspaper clipping: Joyce with Sylvia Beach at 8 Rue Dupuytren, 1921 (photographer unknown). More about this book from the British Library: "This is the first edition of Ulysses, a novel by the Irish writer James Joyce and a key text of literary modernism. Joyce started work on the novel in 1914, and it was serially published in the Chicago Little Review between 1918 and 1920. It met with scandal and controversy when the editors were found guilty of publishing obscene material. Joyce was finally able to publish the novel in Paris in 1922, thanks to Sylvia Beach, owner of the bookshop Shakespeare and Company" . read the full write up at bit.ly/AboutUlysses. Codice articolo 000082

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