Ulysses.

by Joyce, James

$25,000 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition, first printing of Joyce's masterpiece, one of 750 numbered copies printed on handmade paper from a total edition of 1000 copies, this is number 909. Thick quarto, bound in full morocco by Baker Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and wide gilt scrolled inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. In near fine condition. An exceptional example. 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

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

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