New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948 (1932.) Large thick 8vo. Original heavy black cloth w. decoration in gold on spine – no dustjacket. 517 pp., 81 photos & Juan Gris frontispiece. Name to free front endpaper, otherwise clean and well preserved
Very good copy, identical in size and illustrations with the first edition from Scribners 1932
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A rare First Edition of Ulysses from Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare & Co, a very good copy of the 11th Printing – the final version before the printing of the novel left Paris and moved elsewhere. The book was still banned in the States until 1934. This copy was Børge (Boerge) Houmann’s copy (not signed). Houmann, a prominent Danish communist and resistance fighter, was working a translation of Joyce’s novel Ulysses, but tragically could not find the translation after the War. The manuscript had disappeared, apparently confiscated and later lost by Danish police, who got ahead of their German colleagues by lovingly caring for the Danish Communists. In all a highly collectable copy.
Haruki Murakami talking with conductor Seiji Ozawa on music Penguin Random House Vintage Classics, 2020. XIX, 325 pages. New copy
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Soft Cell recorded a song that nicked its title from this book, a song about a man “who goes to Los Angeles and just sees how many people he can have in a weekend. It’s a soundtrack of loveless sex…”
