Joyce, James.

4to (238 x 186mm.), one of 750 copies on handmade paper (this copy no.358), presentation copy inscribed by the author ("To | Raymonde Linossier | James Joyce | Paris | 1 March 1922"), original blue paper wrappers printed in white, protective glassine jacket, preserved in green cloth chemise and quarter green morocco slipcase, tiny tears at head and base of spine, some further very slight wear to wrappers, otherwise a very fine copy
[together with:]
"Ulysses (Episode XIV)" [in] The Little Review, Vol.VII, no.3, New York: September-December [1920], 8vo, original black wrappers lettered in gold, neat repairs to spine

The publisher, book collector and dealer Alan Clodd (1918-2002) (see lot 12)

[Ulysses:] Slocum & Cahoon A17; Laura Barnes, updated version of Howard Woolmer's 1980 census in James Joyce Books & Manuscripts, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York, 1996 (this copy recorded as having been presented on 28 February)
[The Little Review:] Slocum & Cahoon C53.VII.3

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A fine copy in the original wrappers inscribed to the French poet Raymonde Linoissier, one of the typists used by Joyce in the writing of this, the greatest novel in English of modern times.

Linossier (1897-1930) lawyer, poet, and the muse of the composer Poulenc (the composer was devastated by her early death, having hoped to marry her), was one of the earliest subscribers at Shakespeare and Company, and became a close friend of Sylvia Beach. An extract from her poem "Bibi-la-Bibiste" is published in the issue of The Little Review included in this lot, where it is highly praised by Ezra Pound. During one of the periodic crises that arose during the composition and publication process of Ulysses, Linossier agreed to type some of the manuscript for Joyce (seven unpublished letters from him to her are held at the McFarlin Library at the University of Tulsa); however, after she had finished 70 pages (largely of the "Circe" chapter) her father, a distinguished physician, had a heart attack, and she was unable to go on with the work. Joyce was sufficiently grateful for the help of this attractive and highly intelligent young woman that he introduced her name into the Circe episode: "even their wax model raymonde i visited daily to admire her cobweb hose."

The first printing of Ulysses consisted of 1,000 copies, published in three issues: 1-100 printed on fine Dutch handmade paper signed by Joyce, 101-250 on vergé d'Arches, and 251-1,000 on vergé à barbes. The official date of publication was Joyce's birthday, 2 February 1922, but difficulties 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 batch of the 1/750 arrived), followed by the first copies of the 1/100 on 13 February, and the 1/50 series on 4 March. It is now thought that this reflects the order in which Ulysses was actually printed, giving the edition of 750 - despite its higher numerical sequence - a kind of priority over the other issues (see Laura Barnes, op.cit.).

The Little Review, edited by Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, with Pound as a contributing editor, published serially 13 and part of the 14th of the 18 episodes of Ulysses. Twenty-three installments were published until publication was stopped by action brought by the Society for the Suppression of Vice.