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1949rif. FBA103/17Green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine. We provide an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feeling and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available. This quality copy was purchased by Jack Lang's father via a library sale. Despite being from a library sale this edition is a very pleasing copy. Please view our extensive photographs. Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Partially serialised in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922 Joyce's fortieth birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and a classic of the genre having been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". Ulysses chronicles the experiences of three Dubliners over the course of a single day 16 June 1904 which its fans now celebrate annually as Bloomsday. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey and the novel establishes a series of parallels between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus Molly Bloom and Penelope and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus. There are also correspondences with William Shakespeare's play Hamlet and with other literary religious and mythological figures including Jesus Elijah Moses Dante Alighieri and Don Juan. Such themes as antisemitism human sexuality British rule in Ireland Catholicism and Irish nationalism are treated in the context of early-20th-century Dublin. It is highly allusive and written in a variety of styles. The writer Djuna Barnes quoted Joyce as saying "The pity is . the public will demand and find a moral in my book—or worse they may take it in some more serious way and in the honour of a gentleman there is not one single serious line in it. . In Ulysses I have recorded simultaneously what a man says sees thinks and what such seeing thinking saying does to what you Freudians call the subconscious." According to the writer Declan Kiberd "Before Joyce no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking". Its stream of consciousness technique careful structuring and prose of an experimental nature—replete with puns parodies epiphanies and allusions—as well as its rich characterisation and broad humour have led it to be regarded as one of the greatest literary works. Since its publication it has attracted controversy and scrutiny ranging from an obscenity trial in the United States in 1921 to protracted disputes about the authoritative version of the text. Background: Joyce first encountered the figure of Odysseus/Ulysses in Charles Lamb's Adventures of Ulysses an adaptation of the Odyssey for children which seems to have established the Latin name in Joyce's mind. At school he wrote an essay on the character titled "My Favourite Hero". Joyce told Frank Budgen that he considered Ulysses the only all-round character in literature. He considered writing another short story for Dubliners to be titled "Ulysses" and based on a Jewish Dubliner named Alfred H. Hunter a putative cuckold. The idea grew from a story in 1906 to a "short book" in 1907 to the vast novel he began in 1914. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941 was an Irish novelist poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded among the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses 1922 is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles particularly stream of consciousness. His other well-known works include the short-story collection Dubliners 1914 and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1916 and Finnegans Wake 1939. His other writings include two books of poetry a play correspondence and occasional journalism. Born in Dublin into a middle-class family Joyce attended the Jesuit Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare then briefly the Christian Brothers–run O'Connell School. Despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's unpredictable finances he excelled at the Jesuit Belvedere College and graduated from University College Dublin in 1902. In 1904 he met his future wife Nora Barnacle and they moved to mainland Europe. He briefly worked in Pola now in Croatia and then moved to Trieste in Austria-Hungary working as an English instructor. Except for an eight-month stay in Rome working as a correspondence clerk and three visits to Dublin Joyce lived there until 1915. In Trieste he published his book of poems Chamber Music and his short-story collection Dubliners and began serially publishing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in the English magazine The Egoist. During most of World War I Joyce lived in Zurich Switzerland and worked on Ulysses. After the war he briefly returned to Trieste and in 1920 moved to Paris which was his primary residence until 1940. Ulysses was first published in Paris in 1922 but its publication in the United Kingdom and the United States was prohibited owing to its perceived obscenity. Copies were smuggled into both countries and pirated versions were printed until the mid-1930s when publication became legal. Ulysses frequently ranks high in lists of the greatest books and academic literature analysing Joyce's work is extensive and ongoing. Many writers film-makers and other artists have been influenced by his stylistic innovations such as his meticulous attention to detail use of interior monologue wordplay and the radical transformation of traditional plot and character development. Though most of his adult life was spent abroad his fictional universe centres on Dublin and is largely populated by characters who closely resemble family members enemies and friends from his time there. Ulysses is set in the city's streets and alleyways. Joyce is quoted as saying: "For myself I always write about Dublin because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal." In 1923 Joyce started his next major work Finnegans Wake. It was published in 1939. Between these years he travelled widely. He and Nora were married in a civil ceremony in London in 1931. He made several trips to Switzerland frequently seeking treatment for his increasingly severe eye problems and psychological help for his daughter Lucia. When Germany occupied France during World War II Joyce moved back to Zurich in 1940. He died there in 1941 after surgery for a perforated ulcer at age 58. NOTE: This is an original book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don computer scientist food and wine connoisseur Jack Arnold LANG. Note: Jack founded the Michelin Guide 'Midsummer House'- Cambridge's paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam. In 2008 Jack was one of the co-founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation alongside other members of the Department and acted as the Foundation's Chair. The project's original goals were modest: to build and distribute low-cost computers for prospective applicants to our Computer Science degree. Initially the project was a "success disaster" as Jack would say as demand far outstripped the low-scale manufacturing plans. Ultimately the Raspberry Pi became the UK's most successful computer with more than 60 million sold to date. Jack was drawn to the educational possibilities of the Raspberry Pi its potential uses in emerging economies and the way it could support self-directed learning. The Bodley Head. hardcover
2012rif. FB2157 /L1. In the original dustsheet. Black board binding with white title on the spine. A great copy of a seminal book Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922 Joyce's 40th birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement." According to Declan Kiberd "Before Joyce no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking". Ulysses chronicles the appointments and encounters of the itinerant Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Bloom and Odysseus Molly Bloom and Penelope and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus in addition to events and themes of the early 20th-century context of modernism Dublin and Ireland's relationship to Britain. The novel is highly allusive and also imitates the styles of different periods of English literature. Since its publication the book has attracted controversy and scrutiny ranging from an obscenity trial in the United States in 1921 to protracted textual "Joyce Wars". The novel's stream of consciousness technique careful structuring and experimental prose—replete with puns parodies and allusions—as well as its rich characterisation and broad humour have led it to be regarded as one of the greatest literary works in history; Joyce fans worldwide now celebrate 16 June as Bloomsday. Alma Classics. hardcover
2011rif. L3 box784 a6Ulysses. By James Joyce. 2011 Simon & Brown. Hardcover. New book. Simon & Brown. hardcover
1934rif. 11774Random House. New York. 1934. FIRST AUTHORISED AMERICAN EDITION. 1st impression. 8vo. 8.5 x 6 inches. Finely bound in recent full dark blue morocco leather binding. Spine with raised bands. Compartments ruled decorated and lettered in gilt. Red title label gilt. Single gilt ruled line border on boards. Top edge gilt. --- This edition contains a synopsis of the District Court decision allowing publication in America and Joyce's letter to his publisher about this edition. --- Slocum and Cahoon. Bibliography of James Joyce. No.21. Random House. New York. 1934 hardcover
1924rif. 11815Shakespeare and Company. Paris. 1924. FIFTH PRINTING. Large 8vo. 8 x 6.2 inches. 736pp including 4 pages of additional corrections implementing on the errata issued in the second and third printings. Previous owner name on the half title and title pages. Four pages at the beginning of the book have short critical notes written beside the text. Paper is browned and a few corners with small amounts of loss but not effecting the text at all. Bound in early plain black faux leather binding with double gilt ruled lines to the top and bottom of the spine which also has the title lettered in gilt. Yellow endpapers. Overall a very good example of this poorly produced and fragile volume. Slocum and Cahoon note in their bibliography of James Joyce that this edition published in September 1924 was printed on inferior paper. Shakespeare and Company. Paris. 1924 hardcover
1928rif. RO40028940Shakespeare and company. 1928. In-4. Broché. Etat d'usage, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Non coupé. 735 pages. Couverture désolidarisée.Texte en anglais.. . . . Classification Dewey : 800-LITTERATURE (BELLES-LETTRES)
1932rif. 8451Hamburg: The Odyssey Press 1932. FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION 8vo pp. 791 3. Original pale grey cloth boards bordered with a double blind rule front board lettered in red. Spine a little darkened cloth of joints splitting but binding tight. Marginal pencil notes throughout. Hamburg’s Odyssey Press issued Ulysses in several versions in December 1932 with a significant text revised by Stuart Gilbert at Joyce’s own request: Slocum and Cahoon give apparent priority to the relatively common two-volume paperback edition of the same month though it seems likely that it was issued simultaneously with this much scarcer india-paper single-volume edition and both slightly before the special two-volume signed issue. Since the Shakespeare and Company printings the early American piracy and the two-volume Odyssey Press edition were all in wrappers this is therefore the first publication of the text in hardcover form preceding the authorised American edition by more than a year. The Odyssey Press paperback
1936rif. 183370London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1936. Handsomely bound copy First UK edition. From a total printing of 1000 numbered copies this is one of 844 on japon vellum unsigned of which this is number 844. The Bodley Head Ulysses established the text for the succeeding 25 years and printed as appendices the International Letter of Protest against Samuel Roth's piracy and the famous legal judgement by John M. Woolsey lifting the ban in America on the publishing of the book. Crown octavo 250 x 190 mm. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco spine lettered and decorated gilt raised bands block design of the bow first designed by Eric Gill gilt to front board twin rule to turn ins burgundy endpapers top edge gilt others untrimmed. The ocasional minor blemish an excellent copy finely bound. Slocum and Cahoon A23. hardcover
1937rif. 153423London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1937. First British trade edition of Joyce’s epic masterpiece one of the most celebrated and influential novels of the twentieth century here in a custom full-leather art binding by the binder Karen McGuire. Octavo bound in full green leather with gilt titles and ruling to the spine gilt ruling to the front and rear panels with the bow of Ulysses in maroon inlay with gilt details after Eric Gill’s original design to the front panel top stain green marbled endpapers. With a prefatory list of the previous editions of Ulysses and three appendices covering the banning of the novel the unauthorized serial edition of Samuel Roth together with the list of writers and other notables who petitioned against it and a Joyce bibliography of eighteen titles. In very good condition. A striking artist’s binding of Joyce’s masterpiece. 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 Woolf 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. John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
1936rif. 21246351936. London: John Lane the Bodley Head. 1936. Tall 8vo. Original green linen buckram lettered in gilt to spine Eric Gill's Homeric bow illustration in gilt to upper board top edge gilt other edges untrimmed; pp. xiii 3 765 3; cloth discoloured especially at extremities and stained spine sunned extremities and text block rubbed; light foxing internally but generally clean; a good copy.First UK edition no. 341 of 900 copies on japon vellum paper bound in linen buckram from a total edition of 1000.The Bodley Head edition of Ulysses the first published in the United Kingdom includes the first Joyce bibliography as well as appendices concerning the obscenity case that had kept the work from British printers. Unsurprisingly for a book with such a chequered publication history there are a number of typographical differences from earlier editions. Despite Joyce correcting the proofs while on holiday in Copenhagen in early 1936 several mistakes were later spotted. The bibliography by Peter Pertzoff had been submitted without further corrections or acknowledgment from Joyce. Pertzoff was apparently surprised to see it appear inaccuracies and all in this edition.The typography and design was overseen by Allen Lane and Joyce's representative Paul Leon. Eric Gill was commissioned to design the binding of this edition with its iconic Homeric bow on the upper board.Slocum & Cahoon A23. hardcover
1935rif. 151736New York: The Limited Editions Club 1935. The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Joyce’s landmark Ulysses widely recognized as the first illustrated edition. Large quarto original gilt-stamped pictorial brown cloth with 26 illustrations. One of 1500 numbered copies this is number 1476. Boldly signed by Henri Matisse in pencil on the colophon page at the rear. In near fine condition. Introduction by Stuart Gilbert. Housed in the rare original board slipcase which is in good condition. One of the 20th-century’s most desirable illustrated books combining the work of two great modern artists. A nice example with the rare slipcase. 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. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
1981rif. BN51123Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1981. Erstauflage EA. Belletristik Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp unknown
rif. 3458192557.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1922rif. 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
1936rif. 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
1936rif. 81820London:: John Lane The Bodley Head 1936. First edition printed in England; trade issue; No.571 of 900 copies on Japon vellum. . publisher's green buckram stamped with Homeric bow in gold; t.e.g. iin dust jacket. A fine copy in a dust jacket with slight creasing and use; uncommon in this condition. Small 4to. John Lane, The Bodley Head, hardcover
1946rif. 149142New York: Random House 1946. Early printing of Joyce’s masterpiece. Octavo original publisher's cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by E. McKnight Kauffer. "Within a month of the publication the first printing of Ulysses Shakespeare and Company Paris 1922 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… 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. In this edition the text of Joyce's great work is preceded by a foreword synopsis of the District Court decision and letter from Joyce to his publisher Bennett Cerf all discussing the extraordinary controversy surrounding the book's publication. In 1929 an unauthorized American edition of the novel appeared a piracy of the legitimate ninth printing of Shakespeare and Company. "This Random House edition was set up from the text of a copy of that pirated edition incorporating most of its typographical errors and adding a few new ones" Slocum A21. The United States' ban on Ulysses was not lifted until December 6th 1933; one month later the first authorized American edition was delivered to the public. Joyce's "novel is universally hailed as the most influential work of modern times" Grolier Joyce 69. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century. Random House hardcover
rif. 1058-25Hamburg/Paris/Bologna The Odyssey Press 1932. 8°. 2 Bll. 791 1 S. 1 Bl. Dünndruck. OLn.-Bd. mit rotgeprägtem Deckel- u. Rückentitel. Mit Original-Schuber./Orig. cloth with orig. slip case. Rücken etwas angegilbt./Spine a little yellowed. Erste Odyssey-Press-Dünndruck-Ausgabe von James Joyces 1882-1941 berühmten Werk die im Dezember 1932 erschien. "The present edition may be regarded as the definitive standard edition as ist has been specially revised at the author's request by Stuart GILBERT." Impressum. Die einbändige Dünndruckausgabe ist bedeutend seltener als die gleichzeitig erschienene 2-bändige Ausgabe der Odyssey-Press. Mit dem Original-Schuber dieser am Deckel bedruckt "Ulysses". Letztes Blatt mit gedrucktem Vermerk: . The printing and the binding are the work of Oscar Brandstetter Abteilung Jakob Hegner-Leipzig". The first Odyssey Press thin-paper edition of James Joyces 1882-1941 famous work published in December 1932. The present edition may be regarded as the definitive standard edition as it has been specially revised at the authors request by Stuart Gilbert. Imprint. The single-volume thin-print edition is considerably rarer than the two-volume edition published simultaneously by Odyssey Press. With the original slipcase bearing the imprint Ulysses on the lid. Final page with printed note: . The printing and the binding are the work of Oscar Brandstetter Jakob Hegner-Leipzig department". Hamburg/Paris/Bologna, The Odyssey Press (1932). hardcover
rif. 119639London John Lane The Bodley Head 1936. . First UK edition number 726 of 900 copies on Japon vellum from an overall limitation of 1000; 4to; original green buckram with gilt Homeric bow designed by Eric Gill to upper cover titles to spine gilt top edge gilt others untrimmed with the unclipped dust-jacket a little tanning to the foot of the spine panel but a handsome copy of a stunning piece of book production. The first truly complete edition of Joyce's literary masterpiece incorporating the author's corrected text and complemented by a prefatory list of previous editions and three appendices including a legal history of the novel and a bibliography of the author's works. Slocum & Cahoon A23. London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936. hardcover
1935rif. 8741Number 58 of 1500 copies signed in pencil by Henri Matisse a further 250 copies of the edition were additionally signed by Joyce. This is the first illustrated edition of Ulysses though Matisse chose to supply illustrations of the Calypso episodes of Homer's Odyssey corresponding to the six episodes of the novel as his artist's response to Joyce's text which it is often said he never finished reading. He thus confounded both the publisher George Macy and most of the public on its first publication. The Limited Edition Club edition owes its existence to the lifting of the American ban on the novel in December 1933. Large 4to 295 × 225 mm pp. 363 1 6 soft ground etchings on thick paper with a total of 20 reproductions of Matisse's preliminary drawings on yellow and blue paper of different sizes 26 illustrations in all. Original brown buckram gilt with gold orb design to the upper cover original slipcase. The slipcase slightly chipped towards the head. A fine copy with the cloth binding exceptionally sharp and free of rubbing. Limited Editions Club.
1922rif. 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
1934rif. 149451New York: Random House 1934. First American edition of Joyce’s masterpiece. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt signature of Joyce to the front panel gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. "Within a month of the publication the first printing of Ulysses Shakespeare and Company Paris 1922 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… 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. In this edition the text of Joyce's great work is preceded by a foreword synopsis of the District Court decision and letter from Joyce to his publisher Bennett Cerf all discussing the extraordinary controversy surrounding the book's publication. In 1929 an unauthorized American edition of the novel appeared a piracy of the legitimate ninth printing of Shakespeare and Company. "This Random House edition was set up from the text of a copy of that pirated edition incorporating most of its typographical errors and adding a few new ones" Slocum A21. The United States' ban on Ulysses was not lifted until December 6th 1933; one month later the first authorized American edition was delivered to the public. Joyce's "novel is universally hailed as the most influential work of modern times" Grolier Joyce 69. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century. Random House hardcover
1932rif. JOYCEJAM000580The Odyssey Press Hamburg Paris Bologna. 1932. First clothbound edition. 12mo. 792 pages. Printed on india paper. Cream cloth printed in red. Much scarcer than the two-volume issue in wrappers. An important version of the text as it was edited by Stuart Gilbert at the behest of Joyce himself.Lettering faded at the spine. Slight scuff to tail of spine. Very good indeed. The Odyssey Press, Hamburg, Paris, Bologna. hardcover
1967rif. JOYCEJAM000581The Bodley Head London. 1967. Seventh impression with corrections of the new reset edition of 1960. Small octavo. pp viii 939.Covers a bit bumped at tail of spine and corners. Very good indeed in both versions of the dustwrapper: one with photographs from the film which is slightly rubbed at the edges the other which is fine with the Eric Gill bow design. The Bodley Head, London. unknown
1935rif. 77957Paris:: The Odyssey Press August 1935. Third impression of this edition. original printed wrappers in publisher's plain board slipcase. Vertical diagonal tidemark and a bump to the spine of Vol. I; Vol. II spine tanned; contents very nice. The slipcase has a coin-sized chip wear along joints and dampstaining. . 12mo. The present edition may be regarded as the definitive standard edition as it has been specially revised at the author's request by Stuart Gilbert. The Odyssey Press, unknown
