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James Joyce
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The Little Review. Chicago: M. C. Anderson,
1918.
Ulysses was first published in serial form in
The Little Review, beginning in 1918. Censorship
issues immediately arose, eventually forcing a halt to its serialization
in 1920. Copies of The Little Review were confiscated,
and editors Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap were convicted in
New York of publishing obscene literature.
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James Joyce, 1882-1941.
Ulysses; with an introduction by Stuart Gilbert and illustrations
by Henri Matisse. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935.
The French painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954) revolutionized
art in the early twentieth century. His work for Ulysses includes
six original copperplate etchings and twenty photogravure reproductions
of studies for the etchings on colored paper. The images depict
subjects found in Homer's Odyssey rather than Joyce's recasting
of the epic.
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Two Worlds: A Literary Quarterly Devoted to the Increase of
the Gaiety of Nations. New York: New World Publishing Co., 1925.
Samuel Roth published an unauthorized and bowdlerized version
of Ulysses in his new magazine Two Worlds.
In December 1928, the Supreme Court of New York entered a consent
decree enjoining Roth from publishing any further work by James
Joyce. Flouting both the injunction against him personally and
the obscenity ban against Ulysses in the United
States, Roth sold bound, two-volume sets of Two Worlds.
The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice seized copies
of Roth's edition in October 1929.
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James Joyce, 1882-1941.
Ulysses; etchings by Robert Motherwell. San Francisco: Arion Press,
1988.
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), a founder of Abstract Expressionism,
counted Joyce as his favorite modern author and drew upon Joyce's writings
for titles for paintings, drawings, and prints throughout his career.
Arion Press printed only 175 of this luxurious edition, of which only
150 were for sale.
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James Joyce, 1882-1941.
Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922.
The first complete publication of Ulysses was
issued in a limited edition of 1000 copies by Sylvia Beach,
proprietor of the Shakespeare & Co. book shop. The London
edition published later that year had 2000 copies, 500 of which
were confiscated and burned by the New York Post Office authorities
as obscene. The first legal edition in America was not published
until 1934, by Random House.
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James Joyce, 1882-1941.
Ulysses; illustrations by Susan Stillman. New York: Book-of-the-Month
Club, 1982.
Within a few years of its founding in 1926, Book-of-the Month Club
became hugely successful, selling both classic and modern literature
to millions of upward-striving middle-class readers. Ulysses, with
its controversial past and "literary" reputation, would
appeal to purchasers who would want to own, but not necessarily read,
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