ULYSSES
by Joyce, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+, No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Farmingville, New York, United States
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About This Item
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.
Synopsis
Ulysses is a modernist novel by James Joyce. It was first serialized in The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and later published by Shakespeare and Company in 1922. Originally, Joyce conceived of Ulysses as a short story to be included in Dubliners , but decided instead to publish it as a long novel, situated as a sort of sequel to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , picking up Stephen Dedalus’s life over a year later. Ulysses takes place on a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin - now celebrated as Bloomsday annually. Within the massive text of 265,000 words (not so “short” anymore, eh?), divided into 18 episodes, Joyce radically shifts narrative style with each new episode, completely abandoning the previously accepted notions of plot, setting, and characters. The presentation of a fragmented reality through interior perception in Ulysses , often through stream-of-consciousness, is one of many reasons it is considered a paramount in Modernist literature. Ulysses presents a series of parallels with Homer’s epic poem Odyssey (Ulysses is the Latinized name of Odysseus.) Not only can correspondences be drawn between the main characters of each text — Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus, Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, and Molly Bloom to Penelope, but each of the 18 episodes of Ulysses reflects an adventure from the Odyssey. In 1998, the American publishing firm Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. February 2022 will mark the centennial of the publishing of Ulysses , with auctions, sales, and celebrations by Joyce fans scheduled around the globe. From our Book Collecting Guide: Collecting Ulysses https://www.biblio.com/book-collecting/basics/collecting-one-book/collecting-ulysses-by-james-joyce/
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Details
- Bookseller
- Koster's Collectible Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- INVENT045884I
- Title
- ULYSSES
- Author
- Joyce, James
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+, No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- 9th edition, 1927
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Shakespeare And Company
- Keywords
- Fiction
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Koster's Collectible Books
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Farmingville, New York
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Glossary
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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