Ulysses.

by Joyce, James

$25,000 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition of Joyce's masterpiece, one of 750 numbered copies printed on handmade paper from a total edition of 1000 copies, this is number number 817. Thick quarto, original blue and white wrappers. In very good condition with some expert restoration to the spine and a crease to the front wrapper which has been coloured. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. 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

• Publisher: Shakespeare and Company
• Year: 1922
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: unknown

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