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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, 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 276. Thick quarto, original blue and white wrappers. In near fine condition, square and tight with a touch of rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine. Housed in a custom slipcase. 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 "[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,… Read More

Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1922. First Edition; one of 750 numbered copies (this is no. 843; the special issues of 100 and 150 were also numbered). Original publisher’s wrappers. Minor rubbing and soiling of the wrappers; a little short of fine, but an excellent, unrestored copy. Never having read this effusively praised and influential book, this cataloguer will refrain from plagiarizing those who are actually familiar with it. In a custom clamshell box.

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

Paris: 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 276. Thick quarto, original blue and white wrappers. In very good condition with some expert restoration to the spine. 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 "[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).… 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

PARIS: SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY. NEAR FINE. PUB 1929 (1927). FIRST AMERICAN. SLOCUM/CAHOON #19 /This is a pirated edition that used the legitimate 9th Shakespeare printing of May 1927 / . This is the true First American Edition (unauthorized) of 1929. This pirated edition of the 9th Shakespeare And Company ULYSSES was printed by Adolph & Rudolph Loewinger, 230 West 17th St., New York for Samuel and Max Roth. Of the 2000 -3000 copies printed, many copies of this piracy were seized by "The Society for the Suppression of Vice" on October 5, 1929. One of these pirated copies, sent by Joyce to Bennett A. Cerf of Random House was used in setting up the first authorized American Edition of "ULYSSES". Blue cloth covered boards with "ULYSSES / JOYCE" in gilt on spine. The blue printed wrapped (sans flaps as called for by Slocum.) book was bound into this case binding only loosing the original unprinted spine of the wraps. A beautiful clean and tight copy. .

Paris: Shakespeare & Co.,. The 9th printing, printed from the wholly new and corrected setting of type prepared for the eighth edition. Original blue wrappers bound in 3/4 leather boards and green, tan and gilt paper. Green and tan designed end pages. Gilt title on spine. Gilt topstain. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 5th or later Printing. 1927.

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1926. The first printing of Ulysses to have the type entirely reset, work accomplished with Joyce’s participation, the 8th printing overall and one of the key Shakespeare and Company printings, very early and desirable. Small 4to, in a handsome contemporary binding of three-quarter dark-blue morocco over blue cloth boards, the spine divided by bands ruled in gilt, one compartment lettered in gilt. The original blue wrappers, printed in white as issued by Shakespeare and Company in Paris, are bound in at the front and back. (6), 735 pp. A very desirable copy in contemporary binding, the paper still quite fresh and all very sturdy and sound. A handsome book with only light evidence of age. ONE OF THE KEY PRINTINGS BY SYLVIA BEACH’S SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY OF THIS LANDMARK OF 20th CENTURY LITERATURE. It is the first reprinting of the work to use entirely reset type. The work was accomplished with Joyce’s participation. The copy is bound as is often… Read More

[Paris], Tokyo: [Shakespeare and Company ], Yushodo/Inkpen Press, [1922], 2001. A very finely produced facsimile of the first edition of Ulysses, LIMITED to 120 copies. The facsimile is printed on fine paper by the Inkpen Press. Large thick 8vo [195 x 235 mm], beautifully hand-bound in full crushed blue morocco, the spine handsomely lettered in gilt, housed in a blue moire cloth slipcase. (10), 732, (2) pp. A mint, pristine and superb copy. A BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED FACSIMILE OF THE FIRST EDITION OF JAMES JOYCE’S ULYSSES, the most important novel of the twentieth century . The true first edition of this book is now beyond the range of all but a very small handful of collectors, this facsimile provides the opportunity to own this important and handsome work in a format, and with the feel, of the first edition. ULYSSES can be viewed as the pinnacle of the Modernist movement, and its impact on all subsequent western literature is unmistakable. Such writers as Virginia Woolf, John Dos… Read More

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1924 . Paperback. Good Only. 8.5" by 7". None. The uncommon September 1924 fifth printing of of James Joyce's modernist masterpiece, in the publisher's original paper wraps. Published two years after the first edition, this is the fifth printing overall of Joyce's magnum opus, and the third from Shakespeare and company.Joyce's novel chronicles the appointments and encounters of the itinerant Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, on the 16 June 1904, mirroring Homer's 'Odyssey', and termed 'a divine work of art' by Nabokov.Four pages of errata appear to the rear of this volume. These identify corrections to errors that had appeared in earlier editions, including some corrections that had not been made to the fourth printing, produced earlier in the same year. This errata, therefore, offers unique insight into Joyce's creative process and textual revisions.A smart copy of this important early printing of Joyce's major work of modernist literature. In… Read More

Shakespeare & Co., 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine. Seventh printing, October 1925. Both original wraps bound in a very nice full crushed morocco binding, signed Flammarion. Four raised bands, title in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endsheets. Binding tight and square, no rubbing to the corners or spine ends, front joint lightly rubbed. A lovely copy.

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. 9th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+. 9th Printing. Hardcover. In a signed binding by noted New York bookman and binder Whitman Bennett with original wrappers bound in. The 9th printing from the wholly new and corrected setting of type prepared for the eight printing. Light shelf/edge wear, ffep split at joint (repairable), light rubbing at hinges, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Halfbound, burgundy leather spine and tips, marbled paper boards, matching marbled endpages, four raised bands, gilt lettering and decorative elements, teg. 8vo. 735pp. Original blue wrappers bound in.

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1924.. Fifth printing. 8vo. (vi), 734 pp. Contemporary black buckram, gilt lettered red spine label, early owner's inscription in red ink to the front free endpaper "Brought from Paris when unobtainable in England" followed by their name and town of residence. Fairly uniform browning throughout as is customary with these early printings, rubbing to the covers, else very good. Slocum & Cahoon, p. 25. Published September 1924.

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. Very good plus.. Ninth printing of James Joyce's masterpiece, one of the great works of literature in English. ULYSSES first saw print in the modernist literary magazine THE LITTLE REVIEW, edited by Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap. Midway through their serialization, issues of the magazine were seized and the editors were brought to trial in the fall of 1920. When they were convicted, ULYSSES was abandoned, only about half of it published. This disaster led to the now iconic publication of the book by Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare & Company, of which this copy is a ninth printing. 8'' x 6.25''. Later blue cloth boards. 736 pages. Leaves with a touch of toning, light edgewear. Firm.

Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1925. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Seventh printing, October 1925. Printed for Sylvia Beach by Maurice Darantiere, Dijon, France. Bound in a later blue-grey colour hardcover with title in gilt on black leather spine. Internally, the original front wrapper and text are present, but not the original rear wrapper. The recent hardcover binding is in very good condition, with just a hint of shelfwear. Internally the edges of the original front cover appear to have been strengthened with good quality paper conservation tape. Binding sound. No inscriptions. 732pp.plus 4pp. additional corrections..

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1930. First Edition; Eleventh Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good, handsomely rebound in half leather with decorated boards and end papers. Minor foxing, toning to interior. Crease to bottom corner of a few pages. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. Eighth printing, and the first to have the type entirely re-set. Bound without wraps in mid-twentieth century cloth, utilizing the title from original front cover to title the spine; cloth lightly lifted at seams. Very Good. Several James Joyce-related clippings tipped in to preliminary pages, offsetting to rear endsheets from laid in clipping. A nice, early copy of Joyce's modernist masterpiece, from it's original Paris publisher.

Good+, No Dust Jacket Shakespeare And Company 9th edition, 1927 8VO, Hardcover Hardcover. Rebound into textured red boards with red cloth spine. Boards are rubbed and frayed. Soil and scffing. Title on soiled spine. Fore edges and endpapers tanned. Text pages are tanned. Onion skin jacket with title and date on spine. Chipping and closed tears at edges. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1926. 1st Edition 8th printing. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover book in fair condition. Originally soft cover, book has been rebound using the original blue wraps to cover boards. Spine bound in cloth with Ulysses and Joyce written in pen. Shows toning, wear, scuffs and stains. Interior fairly well-preserved. Previous owner's signature to ffep, dated 1944. Interior pages age-toned at edges, but are clean with no markings and comparatively bright considering the age and condition of the book. Stated eighth printing, technically the second edition, when type was re-set to correct the typos in the first printing. Questions welcome. We ship internationally from the United States and Canada every week. If buying internationally, please be aware that additional charges may apply for heavier books. We guarantee a safe, quick, and secure transaction. 10+ years in online bookselling experience.