Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Rare Books & Collectors' Sale December 9th & 10th, 2020

167 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright Joyce (James) Ulysses, 4to Paris (Shakespeare & Co.) 1922, First Edn., No. 285 of 750 copies on handmade paper, original blue paper wrappers bound in, (lacks spine), uncut, blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, internally clean. [Slocum and Cahoon A17] (1) THE EARLIEST ISSUE OF ARGUABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL NOVEL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. The total edition was limited to 1,000 copies of which 100 were numbered and signed on Dutch handmade paper, 150 numbered and printed on vergé d’Arches and the remaining 750 were numbered. The o ffi cial date of publication for Ulysses was Joyce’s birthday, 2 February 1922, but di ffi culties with the cover meant that in fact only two copies, both from the 1/750 issue, were actually ready that day. No further copies of any issue of Ulysses appeared from Darantière until 9 February (when a further batch of the 1/750 arrived), followed by the fi rst copies of the 1/100 on 13 February, and the 1/50 series on 4 March. It is now thought that this re fl ects the order in which Ulysses was actually printed. This copy is recorded in Sylvia Beach’s Ulysses notebook for Irish Bookshops, subscribing on February 11th (see Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, James Joyce - Books & Manuscripts, New York, 1996, p. 123). Provenance: Private Irish Collector by Descent to the present Vendor. € 7000 - 9000 Joyce (James) A Protest against Plagiarism. An original printed copy of the protest and appeal issued in French by a constellation of American and European literary and cultural fi gures, on Joyce’s birthday 2 February 1927, over the unauthorized publication of sections of Joyce’s Ulysses by the American publisher Samuel Roth in his Two Worlds Monthly magazine, without permission or royalty and in ‘un texte incomplete’. First and only separate publication , a fi ne copy, 1 pp folio, with one fold mark, in a custom made folder. Issued over the names of some 167 notable people, the protest was instigated by Joyce and was drawn up by legal friends of his (see Ellmann, 1983, 585-7). It is thus a Joyce item, although he himself did not sign. It complains about the breach of Joyce’s rights as author, and invites editors and others to withhold support and publicity from Roth and his enterprises. It was later published in Transition 1 (Paris, April 1927). The signatures, in alphabetical order, include virtually everyone you ever heard of, from Albert Einstein to H.G. Wells, W.B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, Paul Valery, Bertrand Russell, Marcel Prevost, Sean O’Casey, Liam O’Flaherty, E. Oe. Somerville, Italo Svevo, Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Alice S. Green, Andre Gide, Augusta Gregory, Benedetto Croce, John Galsworthy, Robert Bridges, Arnold Bennett, Knut Hamsun, Wyndham Lewis, Gabriel Miro, Bunin, Luigi Pirandello, T.S.Eliot. The extraordinary range and quality of the signatories testi fi es to Joyce’s worldwide reputation and in fl uence, fi ve years after publishing Ulysses . Joyce eventually secured a legal judgement restraining Roth’s activities, which initially were possible only because Ulysses was for some years banned from import to the United States, hence Joyce could not establish his copyright in the usual way. See Slocum & Cahoon C68. A fragile and important item of the greatest rarity. (1) € 3000 - 5000 917 The Masterpiece of Modernism 919 Only Separate Publication