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Price: US$3180.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paris: Shakespeare and Company, [actually Adolph & Rudolph Loewinger, 230 West 17th St., New York for Samuel and Max Roth], 1929. FIRST TRUE American Edition - Pirated and UNAUTHORISED by Joyce. Recent dark green full coarse grained morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt title and authors name, all edges untrimmed, boards with blind decoration to the edge of the bands. Pages tanned and age toned, some marks and staining, all edges untrimmed, page with I bound in before the title [as called for in 'A Bibliography of James Joyce by Slocum and Cahoon A19, page 28], "Jonthan" instead of "Jonathan" on "By the Same Writer" page, on page 93 with some print effect to the 3rd and 5th row of text (see photos), page 359 page numbered to the inner rather than the outer margin, some pages badly trimmed or cut (473-480) with roughly cut margin (not impacting the text), page 511 torn and repaired to the inner margin, impacting the text - see photos, pages 531 and 533 cut poorly with loss to the outer margin (not impacting the text), from page 369 onwards some pages uncut, repaired to pages 511, 733 and 735. The number 1 printed just below the page number to page 525. We have photographed many pages to show the extent of the poor trimming and cutting of the pages, which was common with these editions of Ulysses. Photos have been taken with and without flash. There is no loss to the text. Slocum & Cahoon comment as follows "It was unauthorised by Joyce and sold illegaly in the United States. Many copies of this piracy were seized by the Society for the Suppression of Vice on October 5, 1929."; "Number of Copies: c 2,000-3,000." "Among the many points in which this piracy differs from the legitimate ninth printing are the misprint "Jonthan" for "Jonathan" (p.[2])." A handsomely bound copy. One for sale online at over £11,000. 735pp. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates. Approximately 9 inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition gilt titles, five raised bands, six compartments, gilt year of publication at the foot of the spine. Joints very good condition. Corners very good condition. Boards very good condition blind stamped decoration to both boards aligning with the raised bands. Page edges fair to good condition all untrimmed, some uncut. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition. Paste downs very good condition new, marbled. End papers very good condition new, marbled. Title fair to good condition tanned, minor marks. Pages fair to good condition tanned, minor marks (see Description above for detailed condition). Binding very good condition sound and attractive. See photos Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1929 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: [3]-194, [2] p. 191 x 140 mm. (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.). Original printed paper wrappers. Copy no. 60 of 96 numbered copies printed on Arches paper. Mogens Boisen's copy (the Danish translator of Ulysses) inscribed to him by Sylvia Beach, and with two letters from him to a former owner, explaining the circumstances. Small chip from rear wrapper edge, light creasing on front wrapper, otherwise a fine copy. In a folding box, with the announcement. "Dante.Bruno. Vico.Joyce" published here constitutes Samuel Beckett's first appearance in print.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
JOYCE, JAMES. ULYSSES. SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY PUB 1929 (1927), PARIS, 1929.
Price: US$13500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.