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1956, As stated First Edition, 1959 Second Printing.Harcourt, Brace and Company . Ivory cloth with gilt lettering on binding in good condition with slight folding on both ends of spine. Original unclipped pictorial dust jacket in relatively good condition with tear and folding on both ends of the spine, and a slight closed tear on the back of the jacket.The front panel of the jacket features a vintage photo of the iconic bookshop. 230 pages in very good condition albeit somewhat yellowed due to age; 16 pages of illustrations and 7 pages of index. This is the story of Sylvia Beach's legendary Paris bookshop: ".is a unique record, written with gusto,humor, and affection, of an important chapter in literary history. And from it emerges the portrait, unpremeditated, of a delightful American in Paris, Miss Beach herself." Sylvia Beach made literary history in 1922, when she published James Joyce's Ulysses under the "imprint of Shakespeare and Company', her American bookshop on the Left Bank". Shakespeare and Company, that "James Joyce's Ulysses was born." Truly unique because Ulysses was banned in every English-speaking country in the world. In this book she succeeds in bringing back that whole small but intensely creative world around her bookshop and that of her friend, Adrienne Monnier which was the center of so much French literary activity." Her book "is particularly valuable for the many critical insights into Joyce's work and the authentic personal views it provides of the man himself." After her publication of Ulysses "on Joyce's birthday, Feb. 2, 1922, Shakespeare and Company was known to writers the world over. No one failed to call but it is finally Joyce whose portrait remains a shy, quiet, infinitely curious, kindly, generous man. She shows us the artist whose complex existence was given to his work. As Beach says, 'He treated people invariably as his equals'" (New York Times). An excerpt, Ulysses in Paris, was printed in 1956 for private distribution to friends of the author and publisher.In 1956, Beach wrote Shakespeare and Company, a memoir of the inter-war years that details the cultural life of Paris at the time. The book contains first-hand observations of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Valery Larbaud, Thornton Wilder, André Gide, Leon-Paul Fargue, George Antheil, Robert McAlmon, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Benet, Aleister Crowley, Harry Crosby, Caresse Crosby, John Quinn, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, and many others.
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