Ulysses.

by Joyce, James

$18,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1924. Fourth printing of Joyce's masterpiece, signed by him. Quarto, original wrappers. Signed by the author in the month of publication on the front free endpaper, "James Joyce Paris 7 January 1924." In very good condition, the joints lightly repaired. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Uncommon signed. 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 Joyce admitted that he put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the profes

• Publisher: Shakespeare and Company
• Year: 1924
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: unknown

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