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JOYCE, James (1882-1941)

Lot 245
21.03.2024 13:00UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 1173296
Lot 245 | JOYCE, James (1882-1941)
Estimate value
€ 8 000 – 12 000
JOYCE, James (1882-1941)
Ulysses. Paris : Shakespeare and Company, 1922.
Exemplaire sur "handmade paper" de l'édition originale, en sobre et élégant demi-maroquin bleu. Boudée par les principaux éditeurs français, l'œuvre majeure de Joyce est publiée dans sa version originale en 1922, par Sylvia Beach, Américaine vivant à Paris. Dans une lettre visionnaire du 6 juillet 1921 adressée à Jacques Rivière, alors directeur de la NRF, l'écrivain Valery Larbaud, que Joyce considérait comme "la seule personne ayant compris quelque chose au livre", déplorait ce désintérêt : "Une fois Ulysses publié, Joyce sera l'écrivain le plus célèbre, le plus scandaleusement célèbre du monde. [...] Une belle occasion de perdue pour la NRF". Bien peu nombreux étaient en effet "ceux qui, à l'époque, ont défendu Joyce sans aucune arrière-pensée et sans revirement" (Pierre Guglielmina). Slocum & Cahoon A17.

In-4 (232 x 182 mm). Édition originale. Un des 750 exemplaires sur "handmade paper" (vergé), celui-ci le n°281 (minimes réparations en marge extérieure du faux-titre et du titre, petite mouillure en marge extérieure du cahier 46).
Reliure de l'époque : demi-maroquin bleu à coins, gardes de papier marbré pailleté d'or, couverture et dos conservés, tête dorée sur témoins. étui (restaurations au dos de la couverture, dos de la reliure légèrement insolé).

First edition, one of the 750 copies on handmade paper, in an elegant half-blue morocco binding.
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