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William York Tindall; [Dylan Thomas].
James Joyce: His Way of Interpreting the Modern World.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1950.
Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $450.
First edition of this guide to Joyce by Columbia professor Tindall, who taught
Ulysses
while the book was still banned in NewYork; his students consulted
a copy chained in the library.Warmly inscribed to Dylan Thomas.
Joyce Joyce; Anthony Burgess (editor); [Jean Stafford]; [Joseph Mitchell].
A Shorter Finnegans Wake.
New York: Viking Press, 1967. Octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. $1000.
First American edition, edited by
Clockwork Orange
author Anthony Burgess.
Ownership stamps of Pulitzer-winning novelist Jean Stafford and
NewYorker
writer
Joseph Mitchell, with his notes, penciled on an envelope from his family’s tobacco
warehouse, laid in.
James Joyce; Stephen Cole (editor). The Works of Master Poldy.
Dublin: The Salvage Press, 2013. Slim folio, original orange cloth
over ivory boards lettered in silver, original slipcase. $600.
First edition of this letterpress tribute to Joyce’s Ulyssean hero, one of one hundred
and twenty copies, inspired by the sleepy words of Molly Bloom: “if I only could
remember the half of the things and write a book out of it the works of Master
Poldy yes.”
James Joyce. Ulysses.
New York: Random House, 1934. Octavo, original ivory cloth, original dust jacket. $3500.
First American edition, advance review copy, with Berenice Abbott’s portrait of
Joyce and publisher’s review slip tipped in. In December 1933, the U.S. District
Court ruled that
Ulysses
was a work of art, not pornography, and within minutes
Random House was setting type for this edition: the first publication of
Ulysses
in
an English-speaking country, and an American legal milestone.
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