Lot 198: JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. Th

JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. The frst edition in original wrappers, copy no. 112 of 150 copies, of one of the most formative novels of English-language modernism. This issue, printed on larger, heavier paper, is the hardest to fnd in such attractive condition. The complexities of its formal structure, its linguistic inventiveness and its imaginative cohesion of historical sources have made Ulysses the most diligently studied work of modern literature in English. Although the tumultuous publication nearly bankrupted Sylvia Beach, owner of Shakespeare & Co, her clever marketing won the day, with reviews of the novel’s salaciousness prompting an avalanche of orders. All three subscription tiers were sold out by August. Cyril Connolly, while criticizing Joyce’s “preference for language rather than people,” nevertheless could not reject the novel’s immense intellectual weight: “somehow it does achieve greatness like a ruined temple soaring from a jungle—and should be judged perhaps as a poem, a festival of the imagination.” This is copy no. 112 of 150 printed on verge d’Arches. The Modern Movement 42; Slocum & Cahoon A17. Quarto (264 x 204mm). Original “Greek fag” blue printed wrappers (minor wear to edges; some very neat expert restoration to the spine and extremities); in custom box with plexi window. Provenance: The Sunwise Turn, Inc (avant-garde bookshop co-founded by Madge Jenison and Mary Horgan Mowbray-Clarke; bookplate on colophon).