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1928ref. 1418860Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1928. First Edition Tenth Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 735 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in decorated teal leather with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Previous owner's name gilt-stamped onto front board. Small amount of red onlay to boards. Sunning to spine. Rubbing along extremities. Top edge of textblock gilt. With marbled endpapers. Original front blue wrap bound in with previous owner's signature. Age toning throughout interior. Shelved in Case 2. 1418860. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Shakespeare and Company hardcover
2001ref. 033212The Bodley Head 2001. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine/VG. This edition was published to celebrate the official naming of Irish Ferries m.v. Ulysses. It follows exactly the line divisions of the critical edition Garland New York 1984. Nice clean copy no ownership names or markings; a little bumping to front board edge. The dustwrapper is complaet clean and untorn. Unclipped at £25. The Bodley Head hardcover
1930ref. 245437Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1930. possible Eighth-Eleventh printing. Three-quarter red crushed morocco over red pebbled cloth gilt rules and spine-title plain endpapers. Page edges toned small stain upper text block edge light rubbing joints two spots heavy browning and subsequent acidic translucency from tape repairs to part-title not affecting inscription minor penciled marginalia p. 135-149 overall a very good copy. 3-735 1 blank. Lacking all prelims and title pages. A CONTRABAND ULYSSES. Paris August 1931. Twenty-three-year-old Olive Felt is preparing to return to America after a post-graduate stint studying French at the Sorbonne. Before leaving she secures an inscription for her copy of the then-banned Ulysses from the woman who first published it: "for Olive Felt / Sylvia Beach / Paris August 1931." On August 28 she sails from Le Havre aboard the Lafayette arriving in New York on September 5-almost certainly with her newly inscribed copy of Ulysses tucked in her luggage. Possibly traveling unbound its identifying preliminaries removed Beach's inscription tucked onto the blank verso of the surviving part-title-a book stripped of its most conspicuous declarations of identity ready to cross a border where its admission remained forbidden. The surviving evidence suggests a compelling narrative. The inscription and passenger manifest place Beach's signing and Olive's departure within the same month more than two years before Judge Woolsey's decision of December 6 1933 permitted the novel's admission. The missing preliminaries and unusual inscription placement are consistent with a copy prepared for discreet passage although the circumstances of their removal remain undocumented. Now bound in three-quarter red morocco over red pebbled cloth the volume bears Olive's bookplate under her subsequent married name Olive Felt Kennedy and was acquired directly from her daughter. Whether carried openly or concealed in her luggage it preserves an intimate connection to the years when reading Joyce could require a journey-and bringing him home could require ingenuity. Copies of Ulysses inscribed by Beach are exceptionally scarce. Here her dated inscription the recipient's documented transatlantic passage the suggestive removal of the preliminaries and the volume's descent through her family give this copy particular resonance as a possible witness to the novel's clandestine circulation. A very good and extremely intriguing early printing eighth - eleventh printing based on collation and pagination. Slocum & Cahoon A.17. [Shakespeare and Company] unknown
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1934ref. 000016927New York: Random House 1934. First authorized American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good or better. 8vo. 6 vii-xvii 5 5-767 7 pp. Pale buckram cloth over beveled-edge boards black and red lettering on the front board and spine; dark purple topstain. Price of 3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The jacket does not state the jacket designer's name on the front panel. Slocum and Cahoon do not address the question of the designer's name credit though many consider the credit's presence on the jacket to be the preferred variant we have seen this point referred to as a state and as an issue. Slocum and Cahoon 21. A sharp copy of Joyce's modern epic an impressionistic comic tour de force using the epic narrative as a framework. A cultural blend of Irish wit and Greek literary devices and themes dense but beloved and extraordinarily influential. The spine's cloth very gently toned the free front endpaper with two faint wrinkles to its corner; jacket with about three tiny chips on its folds. Random House hardcover
1937ref. 066566London Great Britain: John Lane the Bodley Head 1937. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 766 pages 8vo. First UK Trade Edition. This copy has been re-bound in half green oasis morocco with leather spine and corners over the original green cloth sides with gilt bow design on front cover. The original cloth spine of the book has been pasted onto the last page leaf. Five raised bands along spine with gilt title author and date. Shelfwear: some scuffing and foxing on original cloth sides spine is lightly cocked light tanning on page leafs. Volume is in Very Good-plus condition. . John Lane the Bodley Head Hardcover
ref. 1025258517.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1975ref. 241595London: Faber and Faber 1975. Facsimile edition first printing thus. Publisher's blue cloth titled in white housed in publisher's plain white slipcase. All volumes fine in near fine slipcase. Faber and Faber unknown
1934ref. 130732Random House 1934. hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. 2 Musical Examples. February 1934 5th printing in lightly soiled beveled boards no jacket. Tight and unmarked. Please email for photos. Random House hardcover
1935ref. 241728New York: Limited Editions Club 1935. Signed Limited Edition. Publisher's brown cloth decorated in gilt top edge speckled in glassine jacket housed in publisher's plain pale yellow slipcase spine titled in brown. Fine in toned and lightly chipped original glassine jacket in near fine publisher's slipcase. Illustrated by Henri Matisse in six etchings with accompanying preliminary sketches on blue and yellow transparent overlays. i-iii-xv 3 363 3pp. 12" x 9.5" NOT EVERY PICTURE TELLS THE STORY In October 1929 the stock market crashed and the twenty-nine year old George Macy 1900-1956 introduced the first book in his publishing venture The Limited Editions Club. Subscribers paid an affordable monthly price for editions de luxe of literary classics illustrated and signed by notable artists often designed by Macy in a limitation of 1500 copies. At the time the idea was groundbreaking and surprisingly well-received and Macy displayed an unflagging all-American spirit of purpose driven by risk-taking that would keep his publishing passion afloat through the Depression and onward. As its centenary approaches it appears that LECs have also survived the quirks and whims of book collectors thanks to Macy's unbridled instinct for matching artists with texts. Take for example the strangest marriage of them all Henri Matisse meets James Joyce's Ulysses the most valuable blunder in LEC history. An indignant Joyce finding out that Matisse had never read the book dropped out of the project at the eleventh hour signing only 250 copies sparking endless gossip and criticism and making it the most desirable of any of the LECs. Our copy may not have Joyce's imprimatur but it is otherwise complete and in spectacular condition making it a special offering from our Spring acquisitions. Limited to the standard 1500 signed and numbered copies of which this is number 364 signed by Matisse in pencil on the limitation page--preserved here in incredibly scarce original glassine. Slocum 22. Limited Editions Club unknown
1922ref. 846021922. JOYCE James. Ulysses. Orig. blue wrappers in custom folding box. Paris: Published for the Egoist Press London by John Rodker 1922. One of 1000 copies this being no. 929. Nice copy of the edition known as the 1st English edition but technically second printing published under the aegis of the Egoist Press from the plates of the first edition printed in Paris by Shakespeare & Company in February 1922. This edition was published om October 1922. Misleadingly referred to as the "first English" or "first U.K. edition" because it was intended to be sold in England rather than Paris; however the first edition to be physically printed in England wasn't until that of the Bodley Head in 1936. Paper wrappers slightly worn and chipped split at hinges small stain to lower left corner of back wrapper; internally clean. Very good with the highly desirable 7pp. errata laid in. unknown
1927ref. 336812Paris: Shakespeare & Co 1927. hardcover. very good. Thick 8vo 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards gilt top. Paris: Shakespeare & Co. 1927. 9th printing. A sound copy with clean pages in an edition where the pages are frequently browned. There is a modern ownership inscription on a blank flyleaf. Shakespeare & Co unknown
ref. 2605005Shakespeare and Co 1983. first facsimile. softcover. fine. Facsimile of the first edition. Fine condition in publisher's clamshell case which has some water stains at top edge. Shakespeare and Co unknown
1936ref. 376900London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1936. First English edition one of 1000 number 410 of 900 on Japon Vellum paper. xvi 766 pp. 4to. Publisher's green linen buckram gilt stamped on front cover and spine; slightest rubbing to corners; spine and top of margins of covers sunned; t.e.g.; light tanning to fore edges and front endpapers; gift inscription in ink on first blank. First English edition one of 1000 number 410 of 900 on Japon Vellum paper. xvi 766 pp. 4to. Slocum and Cahoon 23 John Lane The Bodley Head unknown
ref. 49722New York: The Modern Library/ Random House. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Modern Library Giant No. 52. Complete and unexpurgated. 8vo. pp. 767 1. Red cloth with gilt lettering on a black spine label. A crisp unmarked copy in an excellent dust jacket. A very sharp copy. The Modern Library/ Random House hardcover
1927ref. 52187Basel: Rhein-Verlags 1927. Hardcover. Translation by Georg Goyert. Complete 3-volume set. 8vo. Quarter calf with raised bands and gilt spine lettering and marbled paper over boards. 458pp 465pp 662pp. Top edges gilt; sewn-in brown cloth page markers. Near fine. Tight and bright with just faint sunning to the spines. Handsome set of the first foreign language edition of Joyce's magnum to appear: the first German-language edition. Goyert 1888-1966 won the contest held by Joyce's German publisher and even met with Joyce several times about the translation but Joyce was critical of the finished product as were many others. The Hans Wollschläger translation of the 1970s has become the favored German text more nuanced and accurate. But Goyert pioneered the challenging task as the first. "Privatdruck" Private Printing appears on each title page apparently to forestall censorship attempts and the limitation statement Volume I notes the limitation to 1000 numbered copies this #839 on laid paper. Half of the print run was issued in this half-leather form the other half in green wrappers. A superb example. Rhein-Verlags hardcover
1922ref. 7586Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922. First edition. Very Good . One of 750 copies on handmade paper from the wider first edition limitation of 1000 copies. Based on Sylvia Beach's records it has been asserted that out of the three issues of the first edition this one was sent out first. This copy marked as number 482. Modern blue half morocco gilt over marbled boards bookplate of Giles Alexander Esme Gordon to front pastedown. Front free endpaper with some marginal restoration a few small unrestored closed tears to preliminary leaves a little occasional foxing a few gatherings a little roughly opened. Housed in a custom morocco-backed clamshell case. A Very Good copy. Arguably the key text of the Modernist movement. "Joyce not to mince words is Ireland's Shakespeare its Goethe its Racine its Tolstoy" John Sutherland. The book also proved to be a major test case for laws of freedom of expression. "Forced underground by censors this was a cryptoclassic already before it was read a subversive colossus" Sherry. Provenance: Giles Gordon was a literary agent and writer working for publishers Secker & Warburg and Gollancz the latter as Editorial Director before representing writers such as Peter Ackroyd and Vikram Seth. Slocum and Cahoon A17. 7586. Very Good . Shakespeare and Company unknown
1924ref. 18085Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1924. First Edition Fourth Printing. Quarter Leather. Very good. The first edition fourth printing of Ulysses by James Joyce published in Paris in 1924. Octavo ii 732pp 733-736pp. Rebound in three-quarter blue morocco marbled boards title stamped in gilt on spine with decorative raised bands. Top edge gilt. Includes the half-title lacking original blue wrappers. Short closed tear through p. 1 delicate leaf ends some minor loss. New endpapers. Slocum notes that this printing was issued on "inferior quality" paper which is evident in the toning throughout this copy. Text block resown. Slocum & Cahoon A17 The text corrections noted on the original errata were largely corrected by this fourth printing but "additional corrections" were discovered and incorporated into the four-page errata on page 733-736. An attractive presentation. This copy is from the library of Oliver Marble Gale Jr. with his bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. Oliver M. Gale 1910-2006 was a pioneer in corporate public relations and advertising credited with establishing a dedicated public relations department at Procter & Gamble in 1949. He left P&G to serve as a special assistant to Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy in the Eisenhower Administration. Shakespeare and Company unknown
1935ref. 18427New York: Limited Editions Club 1935. Limited Edition First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good bound in original full brown cloth with gilt decoration on front panel and spine. Webbing exposed at front hinge binding intact. Toning. Edge wear to exterior includind a few bumps some fading to gilt at a few locations. No markings to text. 4to 12"h x 9 1/4"w. Illustrated by Matisse limited edition also signed by Matisse on the Limitation Page. Limited Editions Club hardcover
1928ref. 001606Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1928. 9 4-735pp 1. Contemporary morocco and marbled paper over boards raised bands with spine divided into five unequal panels author in gilt to second panel title to fourth t.e.g. marbled endpapers. Very minor wear to extremities edges of text block lightly foxed occasional light foxing to text but generally clean. With original wrappers bound in. Bound by W. H. Smith and Sons in Paris with their ticket to front pastedown. The tenth printing. Reprint. Hardback. Good. 8vo. Shakespeare and Company Hardcover
1925ref. 140948862Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1925. Early Reprint. Near Fine. Seventh printing of the first edition. 736 pp. Bound in publisher's blue printed wraps lettered in white. Housed in a custom teal blue cloth clamshell case with green morocco spine label stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light toning and wear to the notoriously fragile wraps. Light creasing to spine light chipping to ends to ends small closed tear to rear joint at foot with tiny abrasion to rear cover. Light corner creases from prelims to 112 p. A nicer than usually found copy of Joyce's epic modern novel. Shakespeare and Company unknown
