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Ulysses.

1922rif. 142260Paris: 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 817. Thick quarto original blue and white wrappers. In very good condition with some expert restoration to the spine and a crease to the front wrapper which has been coloured. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. 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 "universally 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. Shakespeare and Company unknown

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Ulysses. Three Volume Set. First German Edition

1927rif. 006474Bzsel: Privatedruck 1927. Book. Very Good . Hardcover. Limited First Edition. Octavo. 8vo. Erster Band 8 458 2 pp. Zweiter Band 6 465 1 pp. Dritter Band 4 662 2 pp. Vom verfasser Geprufte Deutsche Ausgabe von Georg Goyert: Erste Ausgabe 1927 First German Edition. Number 69 of 1000 copies. Light external wear else Pristine Interior. No markings binding tight clean white and bright. 6.75" x 8.25". Brown Morocco quarter leather with mottled paper-covered boards dark-brown title plate and gilt lettering to spine gilt top text block and brown satin ribbon. In Mylar protector. Der Deutsche Privatedruck des Ulysses von James Joyce wurde in den Jahren 1925 - 1927 durch Vermittlung des Pariser Buros des Rhein-Verlags in Basel in einer einmaligen Auflage von tausend Abzugen auf Butten und Hundert unverkauflichen fur die Presse bestimmten AbHergestellt. Dises Exempler tragt die Number 69. "A German edition of Ulysses was originally planned by Deutsche Verlag in 1924 but failed to appear. The project was then taken over by Joyce's German publisher Rhein-Verlag who held a competition to find a translator for Ulysses. The competition was won by Georg Goyert and in August 1926 he met with Joyce in Ostend to revise the text. The publication was successful and on 19 November Joyce sent a postcard to Claud W. Sykes stating that 'The edition was sold out in 3 weeks' J. Joyce op. cit. III p.167. The limited edition of 1000 copies for sale was issued in a half morocco binding as here and in green wrappers; as Slocum and Cahoon note 'The emphasis on the private nature of the publication and the strict limitation of copies was caused by some fear . that Ulysses might be subject to censorship'. This was the first time Ulysses was translated into another language. A French edition followed in 1929.The Quentin Keyes copy sold at Christies in 2004 for 4200 pounds. Slocum and Cahoon D-45.2.". Privatedruck Hardcover

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