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Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare & Co., Paris, 1925.
Price: US$994.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Karen Jakobsen (Member of the PBFA), Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom
[TAYLOR, Elizabeth]; JOYCE, James. ULYSSES. Paris Shakespeare And Company, 1925.
Price: US$1058.21 + shipping
Description: Elizabeth Taylor's copy of Ulysses. Seventh printing. Bound in black tortoiseshell paper-covered boards, morocco label to spine, lettered gilt, without wrappers. Inscribed on the front endpaper, for Elizabeth Taylor by her husband, "Lisbeth, Love from John. Xmas 1945." A good copy, joints cracked and worn, but holding. The novelist Elizabeth Taylor's copy of Ulysses, given to her by her husband as a Christmas present in 1945, following his wartime service in the RAF.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1925.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated, 6th printing, August 1925, published by the famous Shakespeare and Company of Paris. Brown leatherette cloth spine and corners with gold, textured boards, gilt titles at head of spine. Discrete ink stamp on rear pastedown from original bindery, small ink star on FFEP. Spine has been repaired by James Currier bindery of Newport.
Seller: The Book Lady Bookstore, Savannah, GA, U.S.A.
James Joyce. Ulysses. Shakespeare & Co., 1925.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Finaly, Marguerite. [James Joyce]. Reliquiae.. Privately Printed, Paris, 1925.
Price: US$17500.00 + shipping
Description: James Joyce's first edition copy of the collected works of Marguerite Finaly, compiled by her husband, Horace Finaly, in her memory and privately printed for distribution to friends; with Joyce's ownership inscription. Octavo, bound in full crushed morocco by G. Crettà with gilt titles to the spine, silk-watered doublures and endleaves, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Marguerite Finaly. One of 150 copies privately printed. Signed and dated by Joyce on the title page, "James Joyce Paris 27.xi.1926." Horace Finaly became a close friend of Marcel Proust in Paris and contributed to the magazine La Banquette. He rose to prominence as head of La Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas from 1919 to 1937, and enabled several major French-American industrial collaborations. He is referred to in Finnegans Wake, which Joyce was writing at the time of his inscription: "Play actors by us ever have crash to their gate. Mr.Messop and Mr Borry will produce of themselves, as they're twof genitalmen of Veruno, Sernior Nowno and Senior Brolano (finaly! finaly!), all for love of a fair penitent that, a she be broughton, rhoda's a rosy she. Their two big skins! How they strave to gat her! Such a boyplay!" In very good condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. Rare and desirable from Joyce's personal collection. One of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century, Irish novelist James Joyce is best known for his masterworks Ulysses (1922), Portrait of the Artist of a Young Man (1916), and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear, in serialized form, in Parisian literary journals transatlantic review and transition, under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety, on 4 May 1939. The work has assumed a preeminent place in English literature. Anthony Burgess praised the book as "a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page." Harold Bloom called the book "Joyce's masterpiece", and wrote that "[if] aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon [Finnegans Wake] would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante." Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.