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ULYSSES, JAMES JAMES. (London: Folio Society, 2017). NEW. First Edition. Illustrated and introduced by John Vernon Lord. Edited and introduced by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. In pristine condition in publisher's original shrinkwrap. Hardbound in black buckram blocked and printed in green with a design by the illustrator, with leather inset label stamped in silver to spine. Typeset in Dante, printed on Abbey Pure cream-white paper, head silvered. Frontispiece and 18 illustrations by John Vernon Lord in colour and black & white. Presented in publisher's slipcase of complementary design by the illustrator. The text of this critically edited edition is based on the typescripts, proofs, and lifetime corrections of the author, ie., the text of 'Ulysses' as submitted by Joyce to his publishers: first, to the Little Review (New York) and second, to Shakespeare & Company (Paris). For his illustrations to this edition, John Vernon Lord won the 2018 'Victoria &Albert; Illustration Award for Book Illustration' and the '2018 Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Prize'. (Images of the interior of the volume are easily found by searching publisher's Facebook page.)
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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- Bookseller
- Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Ulysses_2017_Folio
- Title
- Ulysses
- Author
- James Joyce
- Illustrator
- John Vernon Lord
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound, in slipcase.
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2017
- Pages
- xl, 712 pages, 19 unnumbered leaves of plates
- Size
- 29 x 21cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fine Binding, Illustrated, Modern Literature, Classic Fiction
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Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press
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Ballydehob, Cork
About Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press
Welcome to the Biblio.com shop front for Houyhnhnm Press and Ithys Press, fine-press publishers of limited editions. We also collect and deal in modernist literature and books of Irish interest.
Houyhnhnm Press is the publisher of landmark editions of James Joyce's "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake". Ithys Press is the publisher of illustrated, letterpress first editions of James Joyce's "The Cats of Copenhagen" and "Finn's Hotel". For more information about Houyhnhnm and Ithys Presses, please visit our websites:
http://www.houyhnhnmpress.com
http://ithyspress.com
Houyhnhnm Press is the publisher of landmark editions of James Joyce's "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake". Ithys Press is the publisher of illustrated, letterpress first editions of James Joyce's "The Cats of Copenhagen" and "Finn's Hotel". For more information about Houyhnhnm and Ithys Presses, please visit our websites:
http://www.houyhnhnmpress.com
http://ithyspress.com
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