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1922151271Paris: 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 "universally 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 professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant" The Observer 2000. The French translator Stuart Gilbert published a defense of Ulysses shortly after its publication in which he supported the novel's use of obscenity and explained its internal structure and links to the Odyssey against accusations of ambiguity. Every episode Gilbert explained is connected to the Odyssey by theme technique and correspondence between characters. Another instance of Ulysses' literary contribution is his use of stream-of-consciousness a technique employing carefully structured prose both humorous and charactering and involving puns and parodies. Joyce was a precursor to the use of stream of consciousness in the later decades. Similar narrative techniques were used by his contemporaries Virginia Wolfe William Faulkner and Italo Svevo. Their style can be better characterized as an "interior monologue rather than stream of consciousness is the appropriate term for the style in which subjective experience is recorded both in The Waves and in Woolf's writing generally" Stevenson 1992. Shakespeare and Company unknown
19881734961988. MOTHERWELL Robert. Ulysses. By James Joyce. 838 pp. With 40 etchings by Robert Motherwell of which 20 are in colour. Thick folio 322 x 240 mm. bound in original publisher's white half-pigskin over blue patterned silk over boards in original blue patterned silk box. San Francisco: Arion Press 1988. A fine copy of one of the seminal books produced in America in the twentieth century. Robert Motherwell 1915-1991 a founder of Abstract Expressionism counted Joyce as his favorite modern author and drew upon his writing for titles to his paintings drawings and prints throughout his career. The project was four years in planning and a year and a half in production. Copies with the white pigskin still in fine condition are extremely rare. Edition limited to 150 copies signed by Motherwell on the statement of limitation. The type is Monotype and handset Perpetua printed by letterpress on French mouldmade Johannot. The intaglio printing was done by R. E. Townsend Inc. Georgetown Massachusetts in black and 19 colours on heavier-weight Johannot. Slipcase with a little fading else fine. Arion Press 27. hardcover
191422776London: Grant Richards 1914. A first edition first printing of 'Dubliners' published by Grant Richards in 1914. A very good copy with a touch of spotting to the page edges. Some light dulling to the gilt tiles to the spine and to the front panel and a little browning to the spine. No inscriptions. Scattered spotting to the prelims and to the page edges. Some wear to the extremities and some scattered stains here and there. James Joyce's landmark collection of fifteen short stories portraying ordinary Dublin life in the early 20th century. Through characters trapped by routine poverty and social expectation Joyce explores themes of paralysis epiphany and the quiet struggles of everyday existence. Stories like "Araby" "Eveline" and "The Dead" reveal moments of painful insight that illuminate the gap between aspiration and reality. Written in a clear restrained style 'Dubliners' offers a profound humane portrait of a city and its people on the edge of modernity. Grant Richards unknown
1922841781922. JOYCE James. Ulysses. Modern full morocco with inlaid crushed morocco embossed with novel's title in custom chemise and slipcase. Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922. First edition of modernist literature's magnum opus. Slocum and Cahoon A17. One of 750 copies on handmade paper this being no. 464. With original front wrapper bound in at the back. Fine. unknown
193919769London: Faber and Faber 1939. First Edition First Issue Signed by James Joyce and limited to 425 copies only of which this is number 341. 8vo publisher’s original red buckram lettered in gilt on spine t.e.g. other edges untrimmed. Yellow cloth slipcase expertly re-created as the original. 628. A fine copy very handsome bright and clean very well preserved and without wear. The slipcase in beautiful condition. IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY JAMES JOYCE. A very desirable copy of this the best and scarcest issue of the first editions. <br> No book has ever been more ambitiously conceived than Joyce’s FINNEGAN'S WAKE. If ULYSSES represents the pinnacle of the Modernist movement FINNEGAN'S WAKE is a step beyond; it stands in the same relation to ULYSSES as ULYSSES does to A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST.—an extension which is also a completely new conception. Joyce envisioned the book as nothing less than a "history of the world." Seventeen years in the writing and composed in a sort of meta-language--"an Esperanto for the art of fiction"--it stands as a unique monument to language and literature and the modern age. Slocum and Calhoun A49; Bradbury The Modern World 157-176. About this work he stated “‘I might easily have written this story in the traditional manner. Every novelist knows the recipe.But I after all am trying to tell the story of this Chapelizod family in a new way. Time and the river and the mountain are the real heroes of my book. I am trying to build many planes of narrative with a single aesthetic purpose.’†Ellmann Faber and Faber hardcover
192250307Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922. First Edition. Hardcover in slipcase. One of 750 numbered copies on handmade paper from a total edition of 1000 copies. This being No. 310. Quarto bound in full blue morocco. The original wrapped are bound in. Near Fine in bespoke slipcase with blue morocco spine five raised bands and gilt lettering. Shakespeare and Company hardcover
1939140948664London: Faber and Faber 1939. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. First edition signed limited issue. Number 334 of limited 425 copies signed by James Joyce. 628 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. In original yellow cloth-covered slipcase. Near Fine with trivial fading to spine. Foxing and soiling to slipcase light edge wear. A handsome copy of Joyce's final linguistically complex novel that took him seventeen years to complete; scarce. Slocum & Cahoon A49. Faber and Faber unknown
193024937Paris and New York:: Babou and Kahane / The Fountain Press 1930. First edition; one of 100 copies on Imperial handmade iridescent Japan signed by James Joyce. publisher's printed wrappers in glassine and publisher's slipcase. A near fine copy. The glassine is very slightly worn in spots. The slipcase has had some internao reinforcement but is complete and attractive. . Small folio. Babou and Kahane / The Fountain Press, unknown
1924139635Paris: 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 "universally 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 professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant" The Observer 2000. The French translator Stuart Gilbert published a defense of Ulysses shortly after its publication in which he supported the novel's use of obscenity and explained its internal structure and links to the Odyssey against accusations of ambiguity. Every episode Gilbert explained is connected to the Odyssey by theme technique and correspondence between characters. Another instance of Ulysses' literary contribution is his use of stream-of-consciousness a technique employing carefully structured prose both humorous and charactering and involving puns and parodies. Joyce was a precursor to the use of stream of consciousness in the later decades. Similar narrative techniques were used by his contemporaries Virginia Wolfe William Faulkner and Italo Svevo. Their style can be better characterized as an "interior monologue rather than stream of consciousness is the appropriate term for the style in which subjective experience is recorded both in The Waves and in Woolf's writing generally" Stevenson 1992. Shakespeare and Company unknown
1925131904Paris: Privately Printed 1925. James Joyce's first edition copy of the collected works of Marguerite Finaly compiled by her husband Horace Finaly in her memory and privately printed for distribution to friends; with Joyce's ownership inscription. Octavo bound in full crushed morocco by G. Cretté with gilt titles to the spine silk-watered doublures and endleaves tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Marguerite Finaly. One of 150 copies privately printed. Signed and dated by Joyce on the title page "James Joyce Paris 27.xi.1926." Horace Finaly became a close friend of Marcel Proust in Paris and contributed to the magazine La Banquette. He rose to prominence as head of La Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas from 1919 to 1937 and enabled several major French-American industrial collaborations. He is referred to in Finnegans Wake which Joyce was writing at the time of his inscription: "Play actors by us ever have crash to their gate. Mr.Messop and Mr Borry will produce of themselves as they're twof genitalmen of Veruno Sernior Nowno and Senior Brolano finaly! finaly! all for love of a fair penitent that a she be broughton rhoda's a rosy she. Their two big skins! How they strave to gat her! Such a boyplay!" In very good condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. Rare and desirable from Joyce's personal collection. One of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century Irish novelist James Joyce is best known for his masterworks Ulysses 1922 Portrait of the Artist of a Young Man 1916 and Finnegans Wake 1939. Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear in serialized form in Parisian literary journals transatlantic review and transition under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety on 4 May 1939. The work has assumed a preeminent place in English literature. Anthony Burgess praised the book as "a great comic vision one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page." Harold Bloom called the book "Joyce's masterpiece" and wrote that "if aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon Finnegans Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante." Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. Privately Printed unknown
19301282461930. First Edition. Signed. JOYCE James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Fragment from Work in Progress. Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press 1930. Slim folio original printed paper wraps uncut and unopened original glassine original gilt chemise and green cardboard slipcase. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $17500.First edition number 50 of only 100 signed copies on Imperial Hand-Made Iridescent Japan paper out of a total edition of 685 copies. A stunning copy.This is one of several fragments from Work in Progress published in 1939 as Finnegans Wake that Joyce issued to raise money while working on the mammoth project. One of the publishers Jack Kahane who idolized Joyce had originally asked Sylvia Beach to allow him to take over publication of Ulysses. Instead she introduced Kahane to Joyce who then agreed to let him publish Haveth Childers Everywhere. The effort nearly ruined Kahane and only by selling the American rights to the work were he and co-publisher Henry Babou able to save themselves from bankruptcy. When Faber and Faber was preparing the first London editions of Anna Livia Plurabelle and Haveth Childers Everywhere 1930 and 1931 respectively ""Joyce wrote rhymes for the 'blurb' on the dust jacket. The Haveth Childers verse is quoted in this description headline He was a little annoyed when the publicity department used them only on a mimeographed publicity release to which they prefixed a note: 'The Sales department puzzled as such departments are wont to be have sought some light on the two James Joyce contributions to Criterion Miscellany. Below the explanations offered are passed on that you may be able to derive similar enlightenment"" Ellmann 617n. Slocum and Cahoon A41. A beautiful fine copy in a slightly worn slipcase. paperback
19227586Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922. First edition. Very Good . One of 750 copies on handmade paper from the wider first edition limitation of 1000 copies. Based on Sylvia Beach's records it has been asserted that out of the three issues of the first edition this one was sent out first. This copy marked as number 482. Modern blue half morocco gilt over marbled boards bookplate of Giles Alexander Esme Gordon to front pastedown. Front free endpaper with some marginal restoration a few small unrestored closed tears to preliminary leaves a little occasional foxing a few gatherings a little roughly opened. Housed in a custom morocco-backed clamshell case. A Very Good copy. <br /> <br /> Arguably the key text of the Modernist movement. "Joyce not to mince words is Ireland's Shakespeare its Goethe its Racine its Tolstoy" John Sutherland. The book also proved to be a major test case for laws of freedom of expression. "Forced underground by censors this was a cryptoclassic already before it was read a subversive colossus" Sherry. <br /> <br /> Provenance: Giles Gordon was a literary agent and writer working for publishers Secker & Warburg and Gollancz the latter as Editorial Director before representing writers such as Peter Ackroyd and Vikram Seth. <br /> <br /> Slocum and Cahoon A17. 7586. Very Good . Shakespeare and Company unknown
1988206010San Francisco CA: The Arion Press 1988. First edition thus. Hardcover. 835 pages. Number 82 of only 150 from a total edition of 175 with 25 hors commerce copies. The twenty-seventh publication from the Arion Press and widely considered their most sought after book. Designed by Andrew Hoyem with assistance from several others and done with the Eric Gill designed Perpetua monotype and printed on two different weights of French mould-made Johannot paper. Features Joyce's dense novel accompanied by forty etchings - 18 chapter numbers and 22 color illustrations by Robert Motherwell. A fine copy in blue cloth boards with white pigskin spine and in a very near fine cloth covered slipcase with printed paper spine label. Signed by Motherwell on the limitation page. The blue binding and slipcase are likely a nod to the original Shakespeare and Company edition. An exquisite production of one of the most important novels of the 20th century. The Arion Press unknown
1939171352London: Faber & Faber; Viking Press New York 1939. His final and most experimental work First edition signed limited issue number 366 of 425 copies signed by the author printed on handmade paper and specially bound; complete with the publisher's slipcase. The limitation was split between the British and American markets and sold simultaneously with the trade issues on 4 May 1939. "The most conspicuous innovation of Finnegans Wake is its use of 'dream-language'. After Ulysses Joyce believed that he had 'come to the end of English' and his last novel is a pervasive layering of multilingual puns in successive drafts which produces a fabric rich in semantic possibilities" ODNB. Large octavo. Original red buckram spine lettered and ruled in gilt top edge gilt other edges uncut leaves unopened. Housed in publisher's yellow cloth slipcase. Later compliments slip from Patricia MacManus 1914-2005 of the Viking Press marking the publication of Steinbeck's East of Eden on 19 September 1952 loosely inserted. Spine very gently sunned and bumped at foot minor rubbing internally clean; lightly soiled slipcase with wear to edges and two short splits: a near-fine copy. Burgess 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 p. 25; Connolly The Modern Movement 87; Slocum & Cahoon A49. hardcover
1519183717Dublin: privately printed by Gerrard Bros. 15 October 1901. His first obtainable publication First edition of the author's first obtainable separate publication a plea for the freedom of the theatre published when he was 19. This copy is from the library of the 3rd Viscount Esher Oliver Brett 1881-1963 with his bookplate on the chemise. Joyce was a student at University College Dublin in 1901 when he penned The Day of the Rabblement. The essay and one advocating female equality within the university by Joyce's schoolmate F. J. C. Skeffington A Forgotten Aspect of the University Question were both rejected by the University College newspaper. In the case of Joyce's essay this was because he mentioned D'Annunzio's Il Fuoce which was on the Index librorum prohibitorum while Skeffington's essay was rejected owing to its radical content. Instead the two paid to have the essays published as a pamphlet in a small run which they hand-delivered. The exact number of copies printed is not recorded but was surely small. The figure cited in the 1933 Catalogue of Rare Books by the Ulysses Bookshop is as low as 85 while Skeffington's son estimated a run of around 100 to 200 copies Slocum & Cahoon. Only a small number of these were preserved since Joyce did not reach any degree of literary fame for many years. In the essay Joyce attacks the Irish theatre for catering to popular tastes and promotes free expression. "Joyce was stirred by a group of fellow university students - the 'rabble' of the title - signing a letter of protest on political and religious grounds against the Irish Literary Theatre's first performance of The Countess Cathleen by W B Yeats. Joyce critiques the Irish Literary Theatre for its response to the protest which Joyce claims saw them bow to public pressure and 'prejudice' and become 'shy of presenting Ibsen Tolstoy or Hauptmann'. In Joyce's opinion the work of these three European writers was profound innovative and worthy of attention. Significantly the essay shows Joyce upholding the principle of artistic freedom and condemning censorship in all its forms - an outlook that he would maintain throughout his career" British Library 'The Day of the Rabblement'. Joyce's only previously published works were Et Tu Healy! a pamphlet printed by his father when he was aged nine of which no known copies survive and an article on Ibsen included in the Fortnightly Review April 1900. Octavo 8 pp. Original pink wrappers printed in black. Housed in a custom yellow cloth chemise. Front wrapper slightly toned at edges rear wrapper browned else clean. A very good copy. Slocum & Cahoon B1. hardcover
1914751London: Grant Richards LTD 1914. First Edition First Impression. Publisher's Gilt Stamped Maroon Cloth. Good. A Good Book Without its Issued Dust Jacket. Front board has a vertical crease down the entirety of the board affecting exterior and interior. Extremities generally rubbed and bumped. Cloth scuffed and soiled spine darkened. Bump to top right corner has rolled the first few leaves of text block. Text block toned and mildly soiled. Minor paper damage to several various leaves along top edge text unaffected. Evidence of a dog-ear to leaf 129/130. Gutter visible between 144 145 and again at 224 225. Last blank page shows shadows possibly from thin post-it strips. vi 7-278pp. One of 746 Copies Bound for Grant Richards of 1250 copies printed. An exceptionally scarce volume of Joyce's first major published work. Grant Richards LTD unknown
1939014569London/New York: Faber & Faber/Viking Press 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Touch of wear to the heel of the spine which is mildly sunned. Lacking the original slipcase but with a custom-made slipcase in its place. Near Fine in a Fine custom slipcase. Original red buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Copy #222 of 425 numbered copies printed on handmade paper and SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. One of the most important books of modern English fiction if not one of the more readable. "Joyce insisted that each word each sentence had several meanings and that the 'ideal lecteur' should devote his lifetime to it like the Koran" Connolly THE MODERN MOVEMENT 81; "The greatest failure in literature" Burgess 99 NOVELS: THE BEST IN ENGLISH SINCE 1939 page 25. <br/><br/> Faber & Faber/Viking Press hardcover
192713715Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. Very Good. Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. Ninth printing. Large octavo; publisher's "Greek flag blue" wrappers lettered in white housed in half morocco slipcase lettered in gilt inner cloth chemise; 735pp. Wraps worn at extremities with very slight chipping to base of spine; spine creases with slight lean else sound. Overall Very Good. Extra leaf tipped in at front and signed "James Joyce Paris 2-6-28." <br /> <br /> The bound in leaf inserted by an unknown previous party coincides with Joyce living in Paris while Finnegan's Wake was being published serially under the title "fragments from Work in Progress." <br /> <br /> Slocum 17. Shakespeare and Company unknown
1928140948801New York: Crosby Gaige 1928. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition limited issue. #472 of 800 copies signed by James Joyce on the copyright page. A presentation copy with Sylvia Beach's handwritten note "from Mr. James Joyce" on her Shakespeare and Company stationary mounted to front pastedown. xviv 1 61 pp. printed on watermarked wove paper. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with decorative stamping in blind and gilt top edge gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities and faint staining around tail of spine. Contents lightly toned with occasional foxing more pronounced on endpapers and evidence of bookseller ticket removal to back pastedown. Slocum & Cahoon 32.<br /> <br /> <br /> <p>The first separate publication of this fragment of Finnegans Wake which was published in installments over seventeen years before being issued as a complete book in 1939. Sylvia Beach the owner of the legendary Parisian bookstore Shakespeare & Co. had published Ulysses in 1922 and continued to foster Joyce's career during the following decade. She wrote in her 1959 memoir that Anna Livia Plurabelle gave her some trouble. She and Joyce tried to get the piece published in various literary periodicals with limited success. The Calendar accepted it only to be thwarted by its own printers who refused to set up a passage they found obscene. The printers at Princeton University Press which printed this luxurious limited edition for the New York bon vivant Crosby Gaige apparently had no such qualms. Crosby Gaige unknown
19391403209Faber and Faber London 1939. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Faber & Faber UK 1939. Signed Limited Numbered. One of 425 Limited edition copies. Signed by James Joyce. Pages are clean; text is unmarked binding is tight and square. Light wear to cloth boards at spine ends and edges. Text block is clean. Hard cover in original salmon cloth with titles on spine in gilt top edge gilt fore edge and foot of handmade paper untrimmed. Housed in an expertly restored yellow slipcase inside a custom slipcase. Faber and Faber, London hardcover
19391402430London: Faber & Faber Limited / Viking Press 1939. Limited Edition #122/425. Hardcover. Octavo 628 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's brick red buckram spine stamped in gilt. Uncut and unopened as issued. Housed in publisher's yellow cloth slipcase stamped "Made in England" inside of the case. With very light edgewear. A few preliminary leaves and final leaves apparently reinforced with cloth tape a bit over-opened. Slipcase sturdy but with some wear and staining cloth beginning to detach in one corner. MC Consignment. Shelved case 2. References: Slocum & Cahoon A49. <br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> A letter from the Viking Press September 9 1947 states: "We also brought out and sold a limited edition of 310 copies the sheets of which were imported from the English publisher Faber & Faber. Our limited edition is identical with that of the British publisher and bears both imprints. The covers for the limited edition were made in England but the actual binding was done in the United States." 310 copies were sent to the United States instead of the 300 noted in the statement of limitation Slocum & Cahoon. 1402430. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Faber & Faber Limited / Viking Press hardcover
1930846031930. JOYCE James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Orig. printed wrappers and publisher's glassine in orig. green slipcase all stored in custom folding box. Paris and New York: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; The Fountain Press 1930. First ed. Small 4to. One of 100 copies on "imperial hand-made iridescent japan" signed by Joyce this being no. 86. The second book installment of "Work in Progress" which would eventually be much revised and published in full as Finnegans Wake. This section is the introduction to the world of the main character a sleeping giant whose dream is the Wake. The slipcase with some minor wear to the edges else an unusually fine copy. unknown
1927140946444London: Shakespeare and Company 1927. First Edition. Good. First trade edition first printing. A fantastic association copy signed by legendary publisher Sylvia Beach with a contemporary inscription dated Paris August 18 1928 opposite rear paste-down. Bound in publisher's pale green boards faded to tan with errata slip tipped in at rear. Good with cracking at spine leaving binding very fragile cup ring to upper cover. <p>Joyce's second book of poetry a slim volume containing 13 poems. Sylvia Beach was an American ex-pat known for her iconic Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company where she published James Joyce's Ulysses 1922 and encouraged the publication of and sold copies of Hemingway's first book Three Stories and Ten Poems 1923. While autographed copies of her book Shakespeare and Company published in 1960 are often available on the market Joyce titles with Beach's contemporaneous inscriptions from the heyday of the Lost Generation era are extremely uncommon and desirable. A fragile yet very important copy. Shakespeare and Company unknown
1939137512London: Faber & Faber 1939. First signed limited edition number 115 of only 425 large-paper copies signed by Joyce. Large octavo original red cloth titles to spine in gilt top edge gilt original publisher's yellow cloth slipcase. Signed by James Joyce on the limitation page. In near fine condition. Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses. By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear in serialized form in Parisian literary journals transatlantic review and transition under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety on 4 May 1939. The work has assumed a preeminent place in English literature. Anthony Burgess praised the book as "a great comic vision one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page." Harold Bloom called the book "Joyce's masterpiece" and wrote that "if aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon Finnegans Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante." Modern Library named it one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Faber & Faber hardcover
1929140948690Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition limited issue #21 of 100 copies printed on Japanese vellum and signed by James Joyce on the half-title page. xv 1 55 2 pp. printed in red and black illustrated with full page "Portrait of the Author" by C. Brancusi tissue guard laid in. Bound in publisher's wraps with white overwraps protected by glassine. Near Fine with very minor tears to remarkably well-preserved glassine light foxing and sunning to overwraps and light toning to contents. In the original slipcase variant with green suede paper over silver paper moderately rubbed and toned. Housed in a custom chemise slipcase red cloth over quarter brown morocco titled in gilt with light sunning to spine very light wear and inked number to interior of chemise. Slocum 36.<br /> <br /> <p>A rare signed edition of three excerpts from what would later be published as Finnegan's Wake. The Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi created a symbolic portrait of the author as a spiral explaining: “Joyce is like that: he departs from one point and you’ll never meet him again.â€. The Black Sun Press unknown
