James Joyce: 'Ulysses', Paris, Shakespeare & Company, May 19...

Hammer

£220

James Joyce: 'Ulysses', Paris, Shakespeare & Company, May 1930, 11th printing, 735,[1]pp, original cyan wraps (slightly chipped and worn with some small part losses, but else generally complete and in good condition commensurate with age and fragility of book), contemporary printed booksellers label "Libreria F. Ongania Venezia" at foot of FFEP, leaves toned to extremities as usual but else internally leaves clean/VGC, no previous owner names or inscriptions. The last of the Sylvia Beach editions, published at her influential Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company. Beach offered to publish Ulysses for Joyce, the novel having been banned in the United Kingdom and the United States, the first three copies were received by Beach from the printer on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th Birthday. During the 1920s, Beach's shop and lending library was a gathering place for many then-aspiring and renowned writers and poets such as Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Ford Madox Ford. Stylistically dense and exhilarating, Joyce's modernist novel 'Ulysses' is regarded as a literary masterpiece, and has been called "the archetypal stream of consciousness novel" (Charles Fernyhough) and "the greatest masterpiece of 20th-century prose" (Vladimir Nabokov)