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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. 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

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. Used - Like New. 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… Read More

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

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

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..

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 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..

London: Folio Society, 2022. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket. John Vernon Lord. Brand new copy, will be shipped in Folio's original packaging. Fully bound in leather, Folio's centenary edition of the modernist masterpiece is illustrated and signed by John Vernon Lord.

Folio Society,, 2022. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, title and text decorations in sepia and black, 18 coloured plates and green printed endpapers; full green calfskin BY SMITH SETTLE, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, two green ribbon markers, a fine copy in publisher's terracotta cloth clamshell case with mounted illustration and gilt back. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES SIGNED BY LORD (THIS COPY No. 331). WITH EXCLUSIVE COLOURED PRINT IN SEPARATE PORTFOLIO. Splendid memorial edition published to commemorate the centenary of the work's first publication.

Limited edition. One of 500 hand-numbered copies to be signed by the illustrator, John Vernon Lord, of which this is number 34. Housed in a clamshell cloth box and bound in green calfskin leather blocked in gold foil, top edge gilt and two green ribbon markers. The book contains 18 colour illustrations, together with a print by the artist preserved in a folder. Both the box and book are in flawless condition. A beautiful production.

New, as issued. Octavo (21.5x14cm). Red cloth over boards, stamped in silver on front cover and spine, with black head- and tail-bands and black satin page-marker, presented in a matching slipcase. Text set in Bembo on light cream-white wove paper. Signed by the Editor. Scarce: 101 copies issued in two limitations: 26 copies lettered A-Z; 75 numbered copies. This is one of 26 copies of the Lettered Issue. Published on the 100th anniversary of the day upon which the story of "Ulysses" takes place. The text of this edition is that of the 1997 Lilliput and Picador/Macmillan editions but "revised to comply with strictures newly imposed by the courts" following the suit filed in 2001 against the original "Reader's Edition".

New, as issued. Octavo (21.5x14cm). Red cloth over boards, stamped in silver on front cover and spine, with black head- and tail-bands and black satin page-marker, presented in a matching slipcase. Text set in Bembo on light cream-white wove paper. Signed by the Editor. Scarce: 101 copies issued in two limitations: 26 copies lettered A-Z; 75 numbered copies. This is one of 75 copies of the Numbered Issue. Published on the 100th anniversary of the day upon which the story of "Ulysses" takes place. The text of this edition is that of the 1997 Lilliput and Picador/Macmillan editions but "revised to comply with strictures newly imposed by the courts" following the suit filed in 2001 against the original "Reader's Edition".

[Belgium]: [Die Keure], 2006. Produced as a conceptual art project nominated for the Beck's Future Prize, this is based on the 1922 edition of Joyce's seminal modern work. The artist has alphabetized Joyce's words into a long list of letters and punctuation. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition, which was LIMITED to 1000 copies, SIGNED and NUMBERED by the artist. This is copy number 728. Published in green wraps; a tiny bit of rub at the margins. In an archival plastic protector.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Picador, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed and dated by Danis Rose on a label affixed to the title page. "...a completely redesigned and comprehensively edited text of James Joyce's masterpiece." Octavo: lxxxiii, 739 p. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

London: Comparative Literature, 1973. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. pp 97-114 Offprint of Mclean's comparative essay, inscribed on the printed wrapper: 'To Martin Seymour-smith - with best wishes, Andrew McLean'. Browning to wrappers, otherwise very good and scarce thus. Very Good 1973