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Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. 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… Read More

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, May 1927. Ninth Printing of the First Edition. 205 x 160 mm. (8 1/8 x 6 1/4"). 4 p.l. (first blank), 735 pp. DRAMATIC DARK BLUE-GRAY CRUSHED MOROCCO, BLIND-TOOLED AND INLAID TO AN ABSTRACT DESIGN, BY SALLY LOU SMITH (stamp-signed with her initials in gilt on rear doublure), with overall wraparound design of inlaid elongated, irregular-shaped pieces of black, gray, blue, tan, and yellow morocco with blind-tooled lines extending from these shapes, MATCHING MOROCCO DOUBLURES tooled in gilt with branch-like lines, yellow handmade free endpapers, gray flyleaves, all edges gilt. In the matching morocco-backed clamshell box. Front flyleaf INSCRIBED BY JOYCE TO H. G. WELLS: "To / H. G. Wells / Respectfully / James Joyce / 5 November 1928 / Paris." Slocum and Cahoon 17. ◆Isolated faint foxing or marginal spots, but a clean, fresh copy with few signs of use, in a new binding. This later printing of what is generally recognized to be the most important 20th century novel in… Read More

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition of Joyce's masterpiece, one of 750 numbered copies printed on handmade paper from a total edition of 1000 copies, this is number number 276. Thick quarto, original blue and white wrappers. In near fine condition, square and tight with a touch of rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine. Housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional 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,… Read More

Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1922. First Edition; one of 750 numbered copies (this is no. 843; the special issues of 100 and 150 were also numbered). 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.

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922 First edition. Limited to 1000 copies. The 1000 copies were divided into three limitations: 100 copies (nos. 1-100) printed on Dutch paper and signed by Joyce; 150 copies (nos. 101-250) printed on Vergé d'Arches paper; and the final 750 copies (nos. 251-1000) printed on linen paper, of which this is number 349. Original publisher's teal paper wrappers, lettered in white. Light rubbing to wrapper edges, wear to spine with a small chip below first spine band and some loss to lower spine, very mild crease to first several leaves, front wrapper joint tender but holding. Housed in custom slipcase with folding chemise, slipcase with some wear. Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, was first published serially in The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, at which time copies of the magazine were seized and the magazine's publishers were taken to trial due to the sexually explicit nature of the novel. Because of the controversy surrounding… Read More

Paris: Shakespeare and Co, 1922. first. softcover. very good. Small quarto. Original blue wrappers, titles to upper wrapper in white. In a blue quarter morocco case. Very good condition with a chip at the ipper left corner of the front panel of the dj. From a total edition of 1000 copies, this is one of the last 750 on handmade paper. Some pages uncut at top.

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936. . First edition printed in the UK, one of 100 numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author from an overall limitation of 1000; 4to; internally fine, probably unread; publisher's full vellum, with Homeric bow designed by Eric Gill to upper board gilt, titles to spine gilt, original card slip-case, Curwen Paper covering, title label to side giving the limitation number (87), minimally rubbed with some spotting to the label, preserved in a blue solander box, slightly worn, a very good copy indeed. Indubitably the best-produced edition of Ulysses; a sumptuous copy of a spectacular book. The text of the Bodley edition was taken from that of the Odyssey Press printing of 1932, which had been edited by Stuart Gilbert but with some corrections. It remained the standard text until the revised 1962 edition. Additionally Lane reproduced, in the appendices, Joyce's famous letter to Cerf and importantly the landmark 'decision' by the great Judge John M.… Read More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. One of the most arresting collaborations in 20th-century literature. "It was a great idea to bring them together; celebrities of the same generation, of similar virtuosity" (Wheeler, 15). The 26 beautiful full-page illustrations by Matisse accompany the text of Joyce's Ulysses, including six soft-ground etchings with reproductions of the sketches on blue and yellow paper. "One of the very few American livres de peintres issued before World War II. According to George Macy [this work's designer], who undertook this only American publication of Matisse's illustrations, he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide for $5000. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer's Odyssey. The preparatory drawings reproduced with the soft-ground etchings (Matisse's only use of this medium) record the evolution of the figures from vigorous sketches to closely knit compositions" (Artist and the Book 197).

Limited Editions Club, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Copy #1365 of 1500 numbered copies, one of the 250 copies signed by both James Joyce and Henri Matisse. A fine copy in the original gilt-stamped brown cloth, entirely unfaded with tight hinges; in a solid and intact copy of publisher's slipcase (the book has a couple of faints spots or bruises to the deckles on foredge; the slipcase has light wear and a few marks). Illustrated with 6 original etchings and 20 photomechanical reproductions by Henri Matisse Housed in a sturdy custom brown cloth clamshell box with black leather spine stamped in gilt. One of the most storied illustrated books of the 20th century. Although the tale is often erroneously told that Matisse thought he had been hired to illustrated Homer (and did so), Alfred Barr wrote "Matisse remarked that he had observed how Joyce's Ulysses was divided into episodes based on Homer's Odyssey ... Macy accepted the suggestion and Matisse went to work." (Matisse: His Art and His… Read More

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First Edition. Near Fine. First trade edition, first printing. One of 750 numbered copies from an edition of 1,000 total copies, this being number 909. Finely bound in full dark blue morocco decorated in gilt, with inner dentelles, top edge gilt; bound without first two and final blank leaves. Toning to pages. Repairs to gutter and fore edge margin of half-title page, three preliminary pages; chip to edge of last two pages, the second of which has been repaired. A beautiful copy of Joyce's stream-of-conscious masterpiece, which is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and beyond.

1922. First Edition . JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. Quarto, modern three-quarter navy morocco, raised bands, top edge gilt; original front wrapper bound in. $20,000.First edition of the novel that changed the path of modern literature, number 368 of only 750 numbered copies on handmade paper, handsomely bound with original blue paper front wrapper bound in.""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… Read More

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1924. 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… Read More

Tokyo: Daiichi Shobo,, 1931 & 1934. The first non-European translation, inscribed by the translator First edition in Japanese, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the translator to fellow novelist Narasaki Tsutomu on the front free endpaper of volume 1, transcribed on a loosely inserted slip, "Ito Sei - Narazaki Tutomu". This edition is the first non-European translation and predates the publication of the work in England and the United States. Much of the more direct Molly Bloom soliloquy is tipped in to this work on xerox sheets, reinstating the expurgation of text omitted to avoid censorship. Despite this omission the sale of the second volume was banned in 1934 on the basis that what was included represented a "portrayal of the lustful meanderings of a middle-aged female". Of this edition volume 1 was printed in a run of 2,000 copies and volume 2 in a run of 1,500. Ito Sei (1905-1969) played a significant role in the transmission of English literature to a Japanese audience, also… Read More

PARIS: SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY. NEAR FINE. PUB 1929 (1927). FIRST AMERICAN. SLOCUM/CAHOON #19 /This is a pirated edition that used the legitimate 9th Shakespeare printing of May 1927 / . This is the true First American Edition (unauthorized) of 1929. This pirated edition of the 9th Shakespeare And Company ULYSSES was printed by Adolph & Rudolph Loewinger, 230 West 17th St., New York for Samuel and Max Roth. Of the 2000 -3000 copies printed, many copies of this piracy were seized by "The Society for the Suppression of Vice" on October 5, 1929. One of these pirated copies, sent by Joyce to Bennett A. Cerf of Random House was used in setting up the first authorized American Edition of "ULYSSES". Blue cloth covered boards with "ULYSSES / JOYCE" in gilt on spine. The blue printed wrapped (sans flaps as called for by Slocum.) book was bound into this case binding only loosing the original unprinted spine of the wraps. A beautiful clean and tight copy. .

London: The Egoist Press, 1922. First British edition. First British edition. (Published by John Rodker in London, October of 1922, following the Paris printing in February the same year. Technically printed in France, but for British private distribution.) [vi], 732 pp. Bound in publisher's printed wraps, on handmade paper. Copy #275 in a limitation of 2000. Near Fine with the fragile wraps in truly excellent shape; very rarely found unsophisticated with such little wear, especially on the spine, which typically has much, much more chipping and wear; no restoration done to it. Typical toning to contents, bump to bottom right corner with a hint of creasing. A literary milestone in wonderful shape.

1921. First Edition . JOYCE, James. Ulysses Prospectus. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1921. One folded leaf, printed on both sides; pp. 4. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $10000.Very rare original Shakespeare and Company prospectus for Joyce's Ulysses.In 1919, Joyce's Ulysses began appearing in installments in the Egoist in London; although the Egoist's editor, Harriet Weaver, intended to publish the whole novel in book form (she even issued announcements of its forthcoming publication), no printers were willing to take the legal risk. The Little Review in Chicago then began publishing chapters, promptly leading to the prosecution of its editors, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, on charges of obscenity. Upon hearing of this from Joyce himself, Sylvia Beach offered to publish the work through her Parisian bookstore, Shakespeare and Company. ""Undeterred by lack of capital, experience, and all the other requisites of a publisher, I went right ahead with… Read More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. First edition thus. Very good plus in a very good slipcase.. The iconic modernist book, signed by Matisse - one of the great editions of one of the great books. Joyce's masterpiece, in the deluxe edition published after the 1933 landmark ruling in the case of United States v. One Book Called Ulysses. Eleven years after the book's initial publication, a US court affirmed that in the matter of obscenity, One Book Called Ulysses had soundly defeated the United States, and immediately thereafter, Limited Editions Club founder George Macy began to plan what would be a monumental achievement: a landmark among Matisse's livres d'artiste, reproducing his preparatory drawings alongside the final soft-ground etchings; the only illustrated ULYSSES with an introduction that Joyce allowed to be published; and the most accurate text of the novel published in the US until 1961. In the early days of the project, believing that the artist "[knew] the French translation… Read More

Shakespeare and Co. [Samuel Roth] , 1927 [1929]. Good. Joyce, James. Ulysses. Paris [NY]: Shakespeare and Co. [Samuel Roth] , 1927 [1929]. Unauthorized 1st U.S. printing. 735pp. 8vo. Greek blue wraps and deckle edges. Book condition: Good with bumped and chipped edges, creased and cracked spine, and faint soiling. An illusive copy of Joyce's Ulysses. Unauthorized, printed, and discreetly distributed by Samuel Roth in New York City and Philidelphia, six years before before Ulysses' ban would be lifted in the U.S. Although Roth had formerly published Ulysses' serially in Two Worlds Monthly, these full length copies made to pass as Shakespeare and Co.'s ninth printing, would ulitmately place Roth in jail. Despite its disreputation, it is nevertheless held by several special collections across the U.S. and is an essential character in the history of Ulysses and banned books in 20th century America.

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1936. First Edition, English Issuance, First Authorized English edition, one of 900 copies only, printed on special Japon vellum papers, probably the most beautiful First Edition of ULYSSES ever printed. Tall, thick, royal 8vo, publisher’s original full green polished linen buckram with the gilt lettering and pictorial decoration of the gilt bow designed by Eric Gill on the upper cover and spine, housed in the rare printed dustjacket lettered in black on the upper cover and on the spine and decorated with the bow in red on the spine panel. [xvi], 766 pp. A well preserved copy, the covers of the green cloth in bright and beautiful condition without any of the fading typical to the book, the back just a bit mellowed at the tips, the dustjacket with the price still intact and showing some light aging and some evidence of use or handling, but whole and without major defects or substantial wear, some tidying up to the verso. A pleasing survival with all… Read More

Limited Editions Club Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 1500 copies, signed by Henri Matisse on the limitation leaf a VERY GOOD first in brown cloth..