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James Joyce. Pomes Penyeach. Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1927.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The first edition of this collection of thirteen poems from James Joyce. A slight volume in the publisher's original boards, including Joyce's popular poems 'Tilly' and 'A Flower Given to my Daughter'. The first edition of this collection of thirteen short poems, containing fewer than one-thousand words in total, from pioneering Irish modernist writer James Joyce.Joyce's second published collection of poems, written over a twenty year period between 1904 and 1924, and with each poem followed by the year and location of composition. The publication of the work was initially rejected by Ezra Pound. Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company ultimately published the work for the price of twelve francs.The first trade edition, following a numbered edition of thirteen copies.With the errata slip tipped in to the final leaf. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Losses of paper to back strip at head and tail. Boards age toned to perimeters, with tide mark to front board. Rear hinge strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

JOYCE, JAMES. Ulysses. Shakespeare & Co., Paris, 1927.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Full black pebbled leather binding, flat back with gilt title direct to spine. Covers lightly scuffed, rubbing to spine ends and tips, text tanned primarily around margins, some soiling to prelims and endpages, otherwise a good, tight copy of the Shakespeare and Company's ninth printing of the first edition. Size: Square Octavo

Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada

James Joyce. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1927.

Price: US$580.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Shakespeare and Company, Paris 1927. Ninth Printing of the First Edition. Rebound in cloth boards. Blue covers not present. Book Condition: Good, shelf wear, light spots. Spine fraying, age toning, hole at the front endpaper.

Seller: 1st Editions and Antiquarian Books, Opelika, AL, U.S.A.

JOYCE, James. ULYSSES. Shakespeare And Company, Paris, 1927.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Octavo, 738 pages, later half green morocco, green cloth, pastel endpapers; bound by N. Papapetrum, Chicago, IL; ex libris Ary John Arlon, M.D. "Bloom is a universal comic character like Falstaff, Daedalus is guilty adolescence - Connolly, THE MODERN MOVEMENT, 42." The book was sold to subscribers, including Winston Churchill. "The most famous rejection came from George Bernard Shaw, who claimed ULYSSES was, 'a revolting record of a disgusting phase of civilization' and that no Irishman would ever pay 150 francs for this book or any other." Joyce continuously revised the book throughout the typesetting of the first printing. As a result of his revisions and French printers setting a book in English, many mistakes crept into the text, for which corrections were attempted again and again in subsequent printings. In fact, arguably, the author's finished text has yet to be published despite the so-called Definitive Edition published in 1996."ULYSSES was printed for Shakespeare and Company eleven times - Slocum & Cahoon, 17." The U. S. " government based its case against the novel on the dual grounds of Joyce's use of Anglo-Saxon four-letter words and the erotic passages in Mollie Bloom's monologue. No one who has read ULYSSES could deny that Joyce reproduced the coarse language of Dublin's streets with a fidelity never before rendered in literature." - Alfred Haworth Jones.

Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

Joyce, James. ULYSSES. Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1927.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 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.

Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1927.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: In attractive leather binding. Some edgewear. 5 raised bands. Top of spine slightly rubbed.

Seller: Feldman's Books, Menlo Park, CA, U.S.A.

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1927.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 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.

Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare, Paris, 1927.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 735p octavo. The pirated edition taken from the 9th printing of Shakespare & Co of May 1927 and printed by Adolph &Rudolph Loewinger, New York and printed for Samuel Roth, editor of Two Worlds Monthly. See Slocum and Cahoon #19 page 28-29. Lter binding circa 1960s in French style half morocco and patterned boards new endpapers. Professional tissue repair to corner of first original fly leaf creating offset to next page.

Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

Joyce, James (edited By Samuel Roth). ULYSSES: Published in Twelve Installments in Two Hardcover Volumes of TWO WORLDS MONTHLY. Two Worlds Publishing, New York, 1927.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited edition: number 75 of only 500 copies printed for subscribers. Two volumes. Octavo. Top edge gilt. Although the Shakespeare and Company edition of Ulysses was reprinted at least 8 times between 1922 and 1926, there was not an authorized American edition during that time. The "official" first American edition published by Random House did not appear until 1934. However famed (infamous?) pirate publisher Samuel Roth decided to publish the book in 14 edited and somewhat truncated installments in the first 12 issues of his new literary magazine Two Worlds Monthly. Joyce sued Roth, and Roth carried on a debate both in court and in the pages of the magazine. Joyce won an injunction, but by that time Roth had published 13 of the installments. The magazine folded before the 12th issue could be published. The 14th installment was included in a limited hardcover edition published (also unauthorized) by Roth in 1927. Offered here is an attractive set of that September 1927 first "complete" hardcover American edition. Both volumes are in very good condition: clean and tight, with some toning of pages, chipping at edges of paper on spine title labels, and one medium size chip out of margin of one lef that that does not intrude on the text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Tennyson Williams Books and Fine Art, Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare & Co.,, Paris, 1927.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 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.

Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Co. [Samuel Roth] 1927 [1929], Paris [NY], 1927.

Price: US$7500.00 + shipping

Description: Good with bumped and chipped edges, creased and cracked spine, and faint soiling Greek blue wraps and deckle edges

Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

James Joyce. Ulysses [Signed Leaf Tipped in]. Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1927.

Price: US$17500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. Ninth printing. Extra leaf tipped in at front and signed "James Joyce Paris 2-6-28." Large octavo. 735 pp. Bound in "Greek flag blue" wraps. Housed in half morocco slipcase lettered in gilt; inner cloth chemise. Wraps worn at extremities with very slight chipping to base of spine; a few creases to spine. Slight lean to spine, but binding holding soundly. Overall Very Good. The bound in leaf, inserted by an unknown previous party, was signed while Joyce was living in Paris and Finnegan's Wake was being published serially under the title "fragments from Work in Progress." [SLOCUM 17].

Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.

JOYCE, JAMES. (WELLS, H. G., His Copy). (BINDINGS - SALLY LOU SMITH). ULYSSES. Shakespeare and Company May 1927, Paris, 1927.

Price: US$88400.00 + shipping

Description: 205 x 160 mm. (8 1/8 x 6 1/4"). 4 p.l. (first blank), 735 pp. DRAMATIC DARK BLUE-GRAY CRUSHED MOROCCO, BLIND-TOOLED AND INLAID TO AN ABSTRACT DESIGN, BY SALLY LOU SMITH (stamp-signed with her initials in gilt on rear doublure), with overall wraparound design of inlaid elongated, irregular-shaped pieces of black, gray, blue, tan, and yellow morocco with blind-tooled lines extending from these shapes, MATCHING MOROCCO DOUBLURES tooled in gilt with branch-like lines, yellow handmade free endpapers, gray flyleaves, all edges gilt. In the matching morocco-backed clamshell box. Front flyleaf INSCRIBED BY JOYCE TO H. G. WELLS: "To / H. G. Wells / Respectfully / James Joyce / 5 November 1928 / Paris." Slocum and Cahoon 17. ◆Isolated faint foxing or marginal spots, but a clean, fresh copy with few signs of use, in a new binding. This later printing of what is generally recognized to be the most important 20th century novel in English is inscribed by the author to one of his earliest and most important supporters, and is offered in a binding by an influential Designer Bookbinder. First issued in 1922, "Ulysses" rocked the literary world. J. B. Priestley, writing in the "Clarion" in 1934, said what most scholars and critics acknowledge--that "as a literary feat, an example of virtuosity in narration and language, it is an astounding creation. Nobody who knows anything about writing can read the book and deny its author, not merely talent, but sheer genius." Our copy was presented by Joyce to H. G. Wells (1866-1946), whose support of "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" was instrumental in establishing Joyce's literary reputation. Reviewing that book in 1916, Wells praised "its quintessential and unfailing reality. One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction." He considered "Portrait" to be "by far the most living and convincing picture that exists of an Irish Catholic upbringing," and noted how sharply it contrasted the Irish and the English: "No single book has ever shown how different they are, as completely as this most memorable novel." The two men did not meet until 12 years later, in Paris, at which time Joyce inscribed the present copy of his masterwork to Wells. At the same time, Joyce presented Wells with some excerpts of what would become "Finnegan's Wake." On 23 November 1928, Wells wrote to Joyce from his winter home in the south of France, expressing his regret that he could not promote these latest works with the same enthusiasm: "I have enormous respect for your genius dating from your earliest books and I feel now a great personal liking for you but you and I are set upon absolutely different courses. . . . I want a language and statement as simple and clear as possible. . . . Who the hell is this Joyce who demands so many waking hours of the few thousand I have still to live for a proper appreciation of his quirks and fancies and flashes of rendering?" Still, Wells acknowledged, "Your work is an extraordinary experiment and I would go out of my way to save it from destructive or restrictive interruption." The abstract binding by distinguished modern artisan Sally Lou Smith evokes a journey: as the multicolored inlays march from the rear edge around the spine and across the front against a grim, gray ground, Bloom's peregrinations through Dublin and the characters he encounters seem to be brought to mind. Born in the United States, Smith (1925-2007) spent several years in France, then settled in 1958 in London. There, she spent four and a half years learning bookbinding under John Corderoy at Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts before beginning to work out of her own bindery in 1963. Her work has been widely honored both in her early days (she won the bookbinding award given by Major J. R. Abbey in 1965) and for many years since (among others, she won three Thomas Harrison Competition prizes). In the catalogue for the "Modern British Bookbinding" exhibit held in Brussels and The Hague in 1985, five of the 50 bindings pictured were executed by Smith, who is listed in the catalogue as one of the 20 Fellows of Designer Bookbinders, the principal bookbinding society in Great Britain. She served as president of that society and was a greatly respected teacher of bookbinding. A comprehensive survey of her work appeared in "The New Bookbinder" no. 21 (2001).

Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.