Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement." According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking".
- Wikipedia
Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the soul is the form of forms. Tranquillity sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms.
Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the soul is the form of forms. Tranquillity sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms.
- James Joyce's ‘Ulysses’
Lot 66: James Joyce Ulysses 1/750 1st edition
Title: Ulysses
Author: Joyce, James
Place: Paris
Publisher: Shakespeare and Company
Date: 1922
Description:
[8], 732, [1] pp. 24x18 cm. (9½x7¼"), original blue paper wrappers lettered in white, with integral turnovers present; custom, and fairly old, half morocco slipcase & chemise. No. 255 of 750 copies printed on handmade paper, from a total run of 1000 copies. First Edition, First Printing.
A nice, untrimmed copy in the original wrappers of arguably the greatest work of literature of the twentieth century. This is one of the earliest copies from the press - the 750 copies printed on handmade paper were the first copies printed, and the numbering began with 251 - this copy at 255 would have been the fifth to have been completed. Furthermore, according to publisher Sylvia Beach's record of sales, #255 is listed as one of the very first copies to have been sold, being bought on February 9th, 1922. "Ulysses" can be viewed as the pinnacle of the Modernist movement, and its impact on all subsequent western literature is unmistakable. Such writers as Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Malcolm Lowry, and Anthony Burgess have all paid tribute to Joyce's influence. According to James Spoerri, "This fortunate combination of printer [Maurice Darantiére and publisher [Sylvia Beach] resulted in the appearance of 'Ulysses' as a book whose physical aspect is particularly suited to its content. It is a fair and inviting volume, the blue and white of its covers subtly evocative of the Greece whose epic it so closely parallels." Slocum & Cahoon A17. Bookplate of Ad &Ben Schulberg affixed to inside of front wrapper.
Lot Amendments:
Condition:
Later slipcase worn, repairs to spine and joints; original wrappers with some rubbing to edges, splitting at joints, spine with some wear and portion repaired; a rare copy untrimmed and in the original wrappers.
Peter Tyndall : Dagger Definitions, Pamela Hansford
Published by Greenhouse (Melbourne), first edition 1987
Unsheathe your dagger definitions. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the street: very peripatetic. Space: what you damn well have to see. Through spaces smaller than red globules of man's blood they creepycrawl after Blake's buttocks into eternity of which this vegetable world is but a shadow. Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
- James Joyce's ‘Ulysses’
Theatre of the Anniversaries of Regard
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
LOGOS/HA HA
