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Ulysses
by Joyce, James
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/N/A
- Seller
-
Albany, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1937. First US Edition/9th Printing. Hardcover. Fair/N/A. The ninth printing of the First US Edition of the book that is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. In beige cloth beveled at edges with black and red type to front board and spine. Top page ends tinted brown. Soling to boards especially at front spine crease and with some moisture stains to top of front edges. Split hinges at title page and to last page at rfep with mull exposed, but still holding. Tanning to endpapers. In beautiful new facsimile jacket. Design by Ernst Reichl.
Synopsis
Ulysses is a modernist novel by James Joyce. It was first serialized in The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and later published by Shakespeare and Company in 1922. Originally, Joyce conceived of Ulysses as a short story to be included in Dubliners , but decided instead to publish it as a long novel, situated as a sort of sequel to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , picking up Stephen Dedalus’s life over a year later. Ulysses takes place on a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin - now celebrated as Bloomsday annually. Within the massive text of 265,000 words (not so “short” anymore, eh?), divided into 18 episodes, Joyce radically shifts narrative style with each new episode, completely abandoning the previously accepted notions of plot, setting, and characters. The presentation of a fragmented reality through interior perception in Ulysses , often through stream-of-consciousness, is one of many reasons it is considered a paramount in Modernist literature. Ulysses presents a series of parallels with Homer’s epic poem Odyssey (Ulysses is the Latinized name of Odysseus.) Not only can correspondences be drawn between the main characters of each text — Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus, Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, and Molly Bloom to Penelope, but each of the 18 episodes of Ulysses reflects an adventure from the Odyssey. In 1998, the American publishing firm Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. February 2022 will mark the centennial of the publishing of Ulysses , with auctions, sales, and celebrations by Joyce fans scheduled around the globe. From our Book Collecting Guide: Collecting Ulysses https://www.biblio.com/book-collecting/basics/collecting-one-book/collecting-ulysses-by-james-joyce/
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LPB006075JJ
- Title
- Ulysses
- Author
- Joyce, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- N/A
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition/9th Printing
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Irish Literature;
Terms of Sale
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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- Title Page
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- Cloth
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
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