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Price: US$109.81 + shipping
Description: A Paris, Aux Éditions de la Sirène (Société Parisienne dImprimerie), 1924, «Quatrieme Édition» in copertina. Pagine uniformemente brunite, per il resto più che buon esemplare in gradevole rilegatura che conserva la copertina originale. Quarta ristampa della fortunata traduzione francese di «Dedalus», procurata dallesperta traduttrice Ludmila Savitzky dietro interessamento di Pound. La signora Savitzky ospitò poi anche Joyce appena arrivato a Parigi nel 1920, e ne favorì linserimento nei circuiti della capitale francese, tra cui la conoscenza con Silvya Plath della Shakespeare & Co, che avrebbe stampato l«Ulysses». Il libro uscì con finito di stampare al 22 marzo 1924, con una magra tiratura di testa in trentacinque esemplari su carta di pregio; non si contano le ristampe, tutte contrassegnate dalla menzione di edizione diversa dalla prima sulla copertina, e stampate su carta comune che si scurisce molto facilmente. in 8°, brossura originale conservata entro legatura depoca in mezzo marocchino con nervetti, fregi e autore-titolo al dorso; piatti in carta marmorizzata in tono; risguardi in carta bianca muta; pp. 274 [6]. «Quatrieme Édition» in copertina. Pagine uniformemente brunite, per il resto più che buon esemplare in gradevole rilegatura che conserva la copertina originale. brossura originale conservata entro legatura depoca in mezzo marocchino con nervetti, fregi e autore-titolo al dorso; piatti in carta marmorizzata in tono; risguardi in carta bianca muta;
Seller: Libreria Antiquaria Pontremoli SRL, Milano, MI, Italy
Joyce, James. Ulysses, First Edition, 5th Printing. Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1924.
Price: US$995.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This is a paperback copy of the 5th printing, now bound in a 3/4 leather binding with the white wraps with the 60 franc price laid in. The binding is missing the bottom half of the spine and the text is tanned and brittle. 736 pages with the extensive errata. Printed for Sylvia Beach by Maurice Darantiere at Dijon, France. Photos on request.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1924.
Price: US$1019.23 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
James Joyce. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1924.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition, fourth printing, the second issued by Shakespeare and Company. Bound in black buckram cloth with decorative blue end sheets. The first seven printings of Ulysses were carried out by Darantière in Dijon from the same plates. The present, fourth printing, was published in January 1924. It was printed on poorer quality paper and bound in white wrappers, rather than the earlier blue; in this example, these wrappers are bound in. The pages were trimmed when rebound, resulting in the loss of the original price in the lower corner of the rear wrapper. The fourth printing corrected the misprints listed in the errata for the second and third printings; further uncorrected errors are listed at the rear on pp. 733-6. (See Slocum & Cahoon 17). Cloth covers and spine label shelf rubbed. Text yellowed. Some foxing to title page. Stain in upper margin of pages 291-294. Occasional word written in pencil in margins. This copy from the library of Joyce scholar, David Hayman, though without any identifying information within.
Seller: Avol's Books LLC, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1924.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4th Printing of James Joyce's Ulysses Published in Paris in 1924 by Shakespeare and Company. This is the 4th printing, and only the second printing by Shakespeare and Company (the 1st printing was by Shakespeare and Co., but the 2nd and 3rd printings were done in the UK by a different publisher, the Egoist Press). One of the earliest obtainable printings after the first, due to the fact that many copies of the second and third printings (both by the Egoist Press) were destroyed by English and American authorities. Extremely fragile and in poor condition, with covers and many pages detached. Spine missing. It is rare to find such an early printing in the original wrappers that has not be hideously rebound, and therefore one that looks and feels much more like the original publication. But the paper is dry and brittle and flakes easily upon handling.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
James Joyce. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1924.
Price: US$1847.36 + shipping
Description: 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 the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, bright. Wraps detached from text block at back strip. Light edge wear and handling marks to wrap perimeters, with a discrete tape repair to the tail of the front joint. Small burn mark to fore edge of text block at first twenty-two leaves, not disrupting the text. Internally, binding lightly strained throughout, and tender between pages 352 and 353. Pages age toned due to paper type, with instances of light spotting throughout. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Joyce, James. Ulysses.. Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1924.
Price: US$18500.00 + shipping
Description: Fourth printing of Joyce's masterpiece, signed by him. Quarto, original wrappers. Signed by the author in the month of publication on the front free endpaper, "JamesÂJoyce Paris 7 January 1924." In very good condition, the joints lightly repaired. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Uncommon signed. 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 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).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.