Ulysses [as published in Two Worlds Monthly] by Joyce, James - [1926-27]

New York: Samuel Roth, [1926-27]. Eleven volumes in total (Volume 1, Number 1 through Volume 3, Number 3). Octavo. Publisher's printed wrappers. Some of the issues are in clean and bright condition, while others have some toning and edgewear. Some soiling and ink to the front wrap of Volume 1, Number 3 and the occasional spot of soiling throughout the other issues. Overall, a very good and complete run of the scarce, piratical first appearance in America of Joyce's masterpiece. Roth, the New York editor, bookseller and publisher, first became associated with Joyce in 1925 when he published--also without Joyce's stated permission--five fragments from Joyce's current Work in Progress in his magazine, Two Worlds. When his new magazine Two Worlds Monthly was launched the next year, Roth printed these unauthorized and expurgated chapters from Ulysses. Joyce and his publisher of the first Paris edition of Ulysses, Sylvia Beach, initiated immediate legal action against Roth who lied about a printing arrangement with Joyce. It sparked a world-wide sensation in literary and intellectual circles, resulting in a printed protest against Roth signed by 167 prominent writers, artists, and public intellectuals, including T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and Albert Einstein. Joyce sued Roth for this publication charging that he had not given permission and that the text had been altered(28-29, Slocum & Cahoon). 1926