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1936Best.-Nr. 140945626London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1936. First Edition Thus. Near Fine. An exceedingly scarce presentation copy of the first English edition printed in England limited issue signed by James Joyce. One of 100 copies from a total edition of 1000 copies this copy unnumbered printed on mould-made paper and bound in full calf vellum. This copy was reserved for presentation by the author unnumbered at the colophon with the words "Presentation Copy" inscribed in calligraphy below the limitation. The only other copy of this edition of 100 that we could locate that bears the presentation inscription this copy also unnumbered was from Joyce's private library now housed in the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo. They also hold two other copies of the Bodley Head Ulysses 1/900 that also bear the words "Presentation Copy" on the edition statement: one having been owned by Joyce and the other by Sylvia Beach. Bound in publisher's original full calf vellum with gilt Homeric bows designed by Eric Gill on the upper and lower cover and titles in gilt on spine top edge gilt. Housed in publisher's original patterned slipcase which is also correctly sans number matching the presentation copy's blank. Near Fine with light discoloration and light rubbing to the vellum spine slightly darkened and with light mottled foxing foxing to textblock extremities. Slipcase is rubbed and a little worn with several small stains; Foxing to interior of slipcase. Publisher's prospectus laid in. John Lane the Bodley Head unknown
1916Best.-Nr. 129144New York: Huebsch 1916. First edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work his first novel in the exceptionally rare dust jacket. Octavo original blue cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with small chips and wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare especially in this condition without any of the usual restoration usually encountered. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce which describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus. It was published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch New York. The first British edition was published by the Egoist Press in February 1917. Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. Huebsch hardcover
1922Best.-Nr. 21212431922. Paris: Shakespeare and Company. 1922. 4to. Original blue wrappers titles to cover in white; pp. 732 uncut; spine hinges and extremities expertly repaired; a very good copy housed in a custom quarter brown calf over blue cloth book form box lettered in gilt to the spine; early bookplate 'Ex Libris Yester House' to front free endpaper see below.First edition number 442 of 750 copies on handmade paper numbered 251 to 1000; the copy sold to the poet E. E. Cummings according to Sylvia Beach's records.'Ulysses is not a great novel in the sense of A la recherche du temps perdu. The characters do not develop. It has no consistent tragic grandeur and bogs down in several stylistic exercises which have nothing to do with the novel proper; yet the early Dedalus section the middle parts of Bloom and the Nightown orgy and Molly's final reverie stand out like Gaudi's unfinished cathedral. The whole plan fails through Joyce's intellectual preference for language rather than people - yet somehow it does achieve greatness like a ruined temple soaring from a jungle - and should be judged perhaps as a poem a festival of the imagination' Connolly 100 Key Books of the Modern Movement.Cyril Connolly's judgement stands as a fair summation of this astonishing novel - discursive baffling funny moving a unique mingling of highbrow allusion and quotidian detail. It is as dazzling a display of stylistic virtuosity as has ever been attempted in prose to the extent that it might not even be prose any more and it is all in the service of a narrative that does nothing more than illuminate one day in the life of an ordinary man. It is a celebration of the individual that expresses the deep richness of human existence by drawing the parallels between the feats of classical heroes and the deeds of everyday life.It was also famously judged to be so obscene after excerpts of the work in progress were published in the American journal The Little Review between 1918 and 1920 that no mainstream publisher would touch it. Indeed British printers were forbidden from printing it. It would take Sylvia Beach the visionary owner of Shakespeare and Company in Paris to publish this the first edition in book form in a strictly limited run on Joyee's fortieth birthday on 2 February 1922. The first UK edition published by The Egoist Press in the October of the same year had to use Beach's printer in Dijon Darantiere and her plates to obviate the legal restrictions. The very existence of this work in print then is due to the perseverance and commitment of Sylvia Beach. Beach met Joyce at a tea party in 1920 and got to know him and his work after he joined her lending library; from such low-key beginnings quickly grew a creative partnership that would shape literary history. Shakespeare and Company gained considerable fame from the publication of Ulysses but actually lost financially after Joyce signed with another publisher and left Beach in debt caused by bankrolling the printing and distribution of his masterpiece the first book she had ever published. Nevertheless she seems never to have seriously regretted her part in the production of this cultural behemoth a book for which T. S. Eliot wrote in awestruck tones: 'I hold Ulysses 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'.Provenance: According to Sylvia Beach's records copy number 442 was sold to the poet E. E. Cummings in February 1922. The copy has an alternative provenance: Mary Mowbray-Clarke proprietor of The Sunwise Turn bookshop in New York City records copy no. 442 arriving at her shop in January 1923. The Yester House of the elegant bookplate is located in Mobile Alabama and is now called Carolina Hall. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. We are not sure who was living there in 1922 but in 1955 a William Clay Perdue and his wife Martha took over the property.Slocum & Cahoon A17. hardcover
1936Best.-Nr. 835191936. JOYCE James. Ulysses. Orig. gilt-stamped vellum in publisher's decorated slipcase. London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1936. Slocum and Cahoon A23. First English edition printed in England. One of 100 copies signed by the author this being no. 11 out of a print run of 1000 copies. Publisher's prospectus laid in. With the iconic Homeric bow designed by Eric Gill stamped in gilt on the front board. The publisher's slipcase is worn at the extremities else a very good or better copy. unknown
1917Best.-Nr. 140947159London: The Egoist Ltd 1917. First British Edition. Very Good. First English edition printed from English sheets preceded by a first American edition and an English edition that was bound using the American sheets because English printers would not accept responsibility for printing it. Signed by James Joyce on the front free endpaper and inscribed to Baron Ambrose Ralli "in grateful remembrance of 21 June 1915" signed in Trieste on 8 November 1919. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth stamped in blind with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with slight lean to binding fading to spine with fraying to crown light soiling to cloth and crease to bottom corner of rear board. Occasional pencil annotations and corner creases; front hinge a bit tender and offsetting and foxing to endpapers. An important presentation copy to a friend of Joyce's Baron Ambrose Paul Ralli 1876-1938. Here he his thanking Ralli for his crucial role in helping his family flee Italy during World War I. When Italy declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire in May 1915 Joyce was compelled to flee Trieste. Baron Ralli and Count Francesco Sordina provided essential support during this perilous time. The date of remembrance June 21st is likely the day Joyce escaped. The Baron championed Joyce's literary career and was the sole subscriber to Ulysses in Trieste. Slocum & Cahoon 13. The Egoist Ltd unknown
1922Best.-Nr. 2219Paris: Shakespeare and Co 1922. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION IN UNRESTORED ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Number 349 of 750 printed on handmade paper out of a total edition of 1000. Paris: Shakespeare and Co. 1922. Quarto original blue-green wrappers early custom half-leather box. Wrappers with light rubbing to edges wear to spine with approximately one-inch chip below first spine band very mild crease to about first 30 leaves; front wrapper holding but very tender at joint. Some wear to slipcase. A very good copy of what is generally considered the most influential novel of the twentieth-century; rare in unrestored original wrappers. Shakespeare and Co unknown books
1916Best.-Nr. 109550London: The Egoist Ltd 1916. First English edition one of approximately 750 copies of Joyce's classic stream-of-consciousness work his first novel. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Beatrice Randegger. James Joyce. 25 Novembre 1919. Trieste." The recipient was a private student's of Joyce in Italy. In excellent condition with light rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce which describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus. It was published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch New York. The first British edition was published by the Egoist Press in February 1917. Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Egoist Ltd hardcover books
1922Best.-Nr. 2004106Paris: 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. Shakespeare and Co books
1936Best.-Nr. 48720London.: John Lane / The Bodley Head. 1936. Original publisher's full vellum designed by Eric Gill with gilt bow vignette to front and rear boards cream endpapers title gilt to spine a.e.g. original patterned paper-covered board slipcase with white paper label with printed titles and matching copy number in ink. Large 8vo. 264 x 204 mm. Half-title printed title in blue and black leaf with justification and production credits verso leaf with list of 'Previous Editions of 'Ulysses'' leaf with details of the appendices and Joyce's text concluding 'Trieste-Zürich-Paris 1914-1921' and appendices. The deluxe issue of the first edition of Joyce's magnum opus to be printed in Great Britain.From the edition limited to 1000 copies with this one of 100 on mould-made paper in the deluxe vellum binding designed by Eric Gill and signed and numbered by Joyce; the original slipcase features matching numbering to the book.This authoritative edition of 'Ulysses' the first to be published in Great Britain features Joyce's corrected text see below details of the seven previous editions and their fates where applicable for example for the Egoist Press edition '499 copies were seized by the Customs Authorities Folkestone' and detailed appendices concerning the protests injunctions and trials relating to the publication of the book and a bibliography of works by Joyce.Written over a seven year period during Joyce's peripatetic tour of Trieste Zurich and Paris where it was eventually first published 'Ulysses' chronicles a day in the life of Leopold Bloom: June 16th 1904. The book was banned in Britain Ireland and America until the 1930s due to its apparent obscenity hence the need originally for French publication. Considered by many to be the greatest work of literature in the English language 'Ulysses' is certainly a supreme monument of literary Modernism and conceivably the greatest work of literature of the 20th century; Nabokov considered it one of the 'greatest masterpieces of twentieth century prose'. However the greatness of Ulysses has often been overshadowed by the novel's difficulty its ambiguities and its intense literary nature all factors that led the publisher Sylvia Beach to announce the first edition of the work with the apology: 'the publisher asks the reader's indulgence for typographical errors unavoidable in the exceptional circumstances'; the errors are corrected in the present edition.Although the slipcase for the present copy is rubbed and worn it remains intact and the vellum of the binding of the book is fresh with only slight toning to the spine and some small marks to the boards; overall a good copy of this important text.Slocum & Cahoon A23. John Lane / The Bodley Head. hardcover
1916Best.-Nr. 109550London: The Egoist Ltd 1916. First English edition second printing of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work his first novel. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Beatrice Randegger. James Joyce. 25 Novembre 1919. Trieste." The recipient was a private student's of Joyce in Italy. In excellent condition with light rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce which describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus. It was published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch New York. The first British edition was published by the Egoist Press in February 1917. Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Egoist Ltd hardcover
1935Best.-Nr. 140947396New York: The Limited Editions Club 1935. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. First illustrated edition of James Joyce's modernist masterpiece. One of a limited 250 copies signed by both James Joyce and Henri Matisse from an edition of 1500 total the majority of which were only signed by Matisse. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt with top edge speckled brown; housed in the original tan cardstock slipcase with spine stamped in brown. 363 p. Near Fine with trivial rubbing to spine ends corners and gilt at raised relief on upper board. In a Very Good slipcase with soiling and light wear and a short repair to the seam at the opening along the bottom edge. A wonderful copy housed in a custom brown cloth solander case with morocco spine label stamped in gilt. A visually striking production which combines James Joyce's modernist masterpiece with twenty-six illustrations by Matisse including six hand-printed etchings and twenty lithographs. Slocum & Cahoon 22. The Limited Editions Club unknown
1935Best.-Nr. 70085New York:: The Limited Editions Club 1935. No. 1142 of 1500 copies; signed by Henri Matisse in pencil and by James Joyce in ink. publisher's embossed gilt cloth in publisher's slipcase. Very slight tanning of inner hinges; but just about a fine copy. The fragile hinges are fine which is unusual for this book. The publisher's box has a little bit of wear to the fore-edges and extremities but is clean tight and strong. . Folio. Illustrations by Henri Matisse. With an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert. Laid in is the publisher's four-page prospectus and postcard announcement for this book plus an additional postcard announcement of shipment addressed to its first owner in which the purchaser is informed that she was one of the fortunate Limited Editions Club members who are being shipped a copy signed by both Matisse and Joyce. The postcard goes on to describe how the Club tried to handle the imbalance between the number of members who wanted the Joyce signatures and the number of copies Joyce agreed to sign. We have never seen another copy of this postcard. The Limited Editions Club, hardcover
1916Best.-Nr. 68262London:: The Egoist Ltd. 1916. First edition; English issue made up of American sheets. rebound in modern morocco t.e.g. illustrated after a photograph of Joyce on the front panel and a cross on the rear panel. Preserved in a custom 1/4 morocco folding box. Joyce made an earlier attempt to inscribe this copy to someone else; the eradication of the earlier inscription can be seen if the page is held to the light. The binder has trimmed the top edge of the sheets in order to gild the top edge and the last letter of "Wadsworth" is very slightly affected. Otherwise a fine copy. . 8vo. Slocum and Cahoon A12. Signed and inscribed by James Joyce for Percy Wadsworth Paris 30 July 1921 at the upper corner of the blank leaf preceding the half-title. The Egoist Ltd., unknown
1914Best.-Nr. 140940111London: Grant Richards 1914. First Edition. Fine. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original red cloth lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. A Fine and bright copy with gilt still sharp. Cloth with light touches of wear faint water-spot near foot of spine extending to rear cover trivial rubbing to rear joint. Spine ends softened. First and final blank sheet offset. A superlative copy of a book normally found much worse for wear and by far the nicest copy on the market at the time of cataloguing. One of a mere 746 copies in the first issue bound by Grant Richards and issued in London in 1914 from a total of 1250 sheets. The remaining 504 sheets were sent to Huebsch in New York but not issued until late 1916. Grant Richards unknown books
1922Best.-Nr. 233256Paris: Shakespeare & Co 1922. Limited. paperback. very good-. 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 blue paper is entirely 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. Shakespeare & Co unknown books
Best.-Nr. dublinersA beautful example of the first published edition of one of the greatest short story collections of all time James Joyce's Dubliners. One of approximately 746 copies bound in the publisher's maroon cloth. However now only one of 246 examples after 500 were destroyed in a shipwreck on the way to America. The publishing history of Dubliners is convoluted to say the least: Joyce had originally hoped to publish the book in 1906 after it was accepted for publication by the London publishers Grant Richards. But "after skirmishes with printers over objectionable passages the publisher abandoned the book". Four years later the Dublin publishing house Maunsel & Company agreed to publish the book and 1000 copies were printed in 1910. But there was another row over allegedly objectionable passages in at least one of the stories which Joyce refused to remove and the copies were burnt. Another four years passed and in 1914 back in London Grant Richards finally published the book. It is believed that 1250 sets of sheets were printed of which 746 were bound up in London and the remainder shipped to the US for an American edition. So the “true” first edition of Dubliners is one of the 746 copies published in London in June 1914 by Grant Richards. However some 500 copies were reputedly lost in a shipwreck so only 246 copies are believed to have survived making this one of the rarest of Joyce's iconic works. First edition first impression. A near fine example in the original publishers maroon cloth binding. Minor wear to the spine. Internally fine the best I have ever seen not a single blemish. A beautiful example with no restoration. Published by Grant Richards Ltd London 1914. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 119117London Grant Richards 1914. . First edition first impression; 8vo; light bleed from cloth to pastedowns some marks to rear pastedown occasional trivial offsetting; publisher's red cloth boards gilt lettering slight bloom to upper board a few marks to lower board top corner of upper board a little bumped; 278pp. From a total printing of 1250 some 506 sets of sheets were sent to Huebsch for publication in the US making this copy one of just 746 of the earliest issue of Joyce's Dubliners. Once described by Graham Greene as the greatest book of short fiction to have ever been written copies in presentable condition are exceptionally rare. Slocum & Cahoon A8. London, Grant Richards, 1914. hardcover
1914Best.-Nr. 69705London: Grant Richards Ltd. Publishers 1914. Full Description: JOYCE James. Dubliners. London: Grant Richards Ltd. Publishers 1914. First edition. One of 746 copies bound for Richards another 540 were sent to the United States. Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 192 x 125 mm. 278 2 blank pp. Complete with half-title. Publisher's crimson cloth. Spine and front board lettered in gilt. Some spotting to fore-edge and prelims. Spine slightly darkened. Cloth with some very light rubbing. Some minimal soiling to front and back free endpaper. Overall an about fine copy of this legendary rarity and epochal work in modern literature. "'I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne.' James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers resisting their demands to remove swear words real place names and much else including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation in Ireland'. Joyce's aim was to tell the truth - to create a work of art that would reflect life in Ireland at the turn of the last century and by rejecting euphemism reveal to the Irish the unromantic reality the recognition of which would lead to the spiritual liberation of the country. Each of the fifteen stories offers a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Dubliners - a death an encounter an opportunity not taken a memory rekindled - and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation." Good Reads Slocum and Cahoon A8. HBS 69705. $25000. Grant Richards Ltd. Publishers unknown
1914Best.-Nr. 365353London: Grant Richards Ltd 1914. First edition one of 746 bound for Richards 1250 copies printed. 278 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original dark red cloth gilt stamped lettering on the spine and front cover some light fading to spine with slightest rubbing along top edge front cover with some bubbling; marks to endpapers from former protective cover bookplate on front pastedown slight cracking to text block at p. 144. First edition one of 746 bound for Richards 1250 copies printed. 278 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The rocky publishing history of Dubliners is well documented: finished in 1905 it was rejected by 15 publishers before Grant Richards accepted it. Richards' printers refused to set some of the type - inaugurating Joyce's lifelong struggle with censorship - and Joyce refused most of Richards' changes. It was then taken up by Maunsel & Roberts of Dublin who eventually came to a similar conclusion. Maunsel even burned all but one of the copies of the sheets which Joyce managed to wheedle out of him and it was given back to Richards who set the type from the lone Maunsel sheet saved from the flames. Joyce subsequently added "A Little Cloud" and "The Dead" - possibly his most famous single story - to the collection. Slocum and Cahoon A8 Grant Richards Ltd unknown
1922Best.-Nr. 151271Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922. First edition first printing of Joyce's masterpiece one of 750 numbered copies printed on handmade paper from a total edition of 1000 copies this is number 909. Thick quarto bound in full morocco by Baker Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt turn-ins and wide gilt scrolled inner dentelles marbled endpapers top edge gilt. In near fine condition. 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 "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
1988Best.-Nr. 1734961988. MOTHERWELL Robert. Ulysses. By James Joyce. 838 pp. With 40 etchings by Robert Motherwell of which 20 are in colour. Thick folio 322 x 240 mm. bound in original publisher's white half-pigskin over blue patterned silk over boards in original blue patterned silk box. San Francisco: Arion Press 1988. A fine copy of one of the seminal books produced in America in the twentieth century. Robert Motherwell 1915-1991 a founder of Abstract Expressionism counted Joyce as his favorite modern author and drew upon his writing for titles to his paintings drawings and prints throughout his career. The project was four years in planning and a year and a half in production. Copies with the white pigskin still in fine condition are extremely rare. Edition limited to 150 copies signed by Motherwell on the statement of limitation. The type is Monotype and handset Perpetua printed by letterpress on French mouldmade Johannot. The intaglio printing was done by R. E. Townsend Inc. Georgetown Massachusetts in black and 19 colours on heavier-weight Johannot. Slipcase with a little fading else fine. Arion Press 27. hardcover
1914Best.-Nr. 22776London: Grant Richards 1914. A first edition first printing of 'Dubliners' published by Grant Richards in 1914. A very good copy with a touch of spotting to the page edges. Some light dulling to the gilt tiles to the spine and to the front panel and a little browning to the spine. No inscriptions. Scattered spotting to the prelims and to the page edges. Some wear to the extremities and some scattered stains here and there. James Joyce's landmark collection of fifteen short stories portraying ordinary Dublin life in the early 20th century. Through characters trapped by routine poverty and social expectation Joyce explores themes of paralysis epiphany and the quiet struggles of everyday existence. Stories like "Araby" "Eveline" and "The Dead" reveal moments of painful insight that illuminate the gap between aspiration and reality. Written in a clear restrained style 'Dubliners' offers a profound humane portrait of a city and its people on the edge of modernity. Grant Richards unknown
1922Best.-Nr. 841781922. JOYCE James. Ulysses. Modern full morocco with inlaid crushed morocco embossed with novel's title in custom chemise and slipcase. Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922. First edition of modernist literature's magnum opus. Slocum and Cahoon A17. One of 750 copies on handmade paper this being no. 464. With original front wrapper bound in at the back. Fine. unknown
1922Best.-Nr. 140939492Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922. First Edition. Near Fine. First trade edition first printing. One of 750 numbered copies from an edition of 1000 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. Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 19769London: Faber and Faber 1939. First Edition First Issue Signed by James Joyce and limited to 425 copies only of which this is number 341. 8vo publisher’s original red buckram lettered in gilt on spine t.e.g. other edges untrimmed. Yellow cloth slipcase expertly re-created as the original. 628. A fine copy very handsome bright and clean very well preserved and without wear. The slipcase in beautiful condition. IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY JAMES JOYCE. A very desirable copy of this the best and scarcest issue of the first editions. No book has ever been more ambitiously conceived than Joyce’s FINNEGAN'S WAKE. If ULYSSES represents the pinnacle of the Modernist movement FINNEGAN'S WAKE is a step beyond; it stands in the same relation to ULYSSES as ULYSSES does to A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST.—an extension which is also a completely new conception. Joyce envisioned the book as nothing less than a "history of the world." Seventeen years in the writing and composed in a sort of meta-language--"an Esperanto for the art of fiction"--it stands as a unique monument to language and literature and the modern age. Slocum and Calhoun A49; Bradbury The Modern World 157-176. About this work he stated “‘I might easily have written this story in the traditional manner. Every novelist knows the recipe.But I after all am trying to tell the story of this Chapelizod family in a new way. Time and the river and the mountain are the real heroes of my book. I am trying to build many planes of narrative with a single aesthetic purpose.’” Ellmann Faber and Faber hardcover
