Sale 2493 - 19th & 20th Century Literature, November 13, 2018

159 158 c   JOYCE, JAMES. Ulysses as pub- lished in Two Worlds Monthly. Volume 1, number 1 through Volume 3, number 3 (complete). Together, 11 volumes: includes 10 issues containing the work, and a final installment with editor Samuel Roth’s “An Offer to James Joyce.” 8vo, publisher’s printed wrappers, chips to head and foot of backstrips with loss of letters on 5 volumes, occasional soil- ing, edge tears and toning, tape repair to lower outer corner of front wrap on vol. 1. NewYork, 1926-27 [1,000/1,500] Complete run of the scarce piratical first appearance in America of Joyce’s masterpiece. Roth, the New York editor, bookseller and publisher, first became associated with Joyce in 1925 when he published (also without Joyce’s stated permission), five fragments from Joyce’s current Work in Progress in his magazine,Two Worlds.When his new magazine Two Worlds Monthly was launched the next year, Roth printed these unauthorized and expurgated chapters from Ulysses. Joyce and his publisher of the first Paris edition of Ulysses, Sylvia Beach, initiated immediate legal action against Roth who lied about a printing arrangement with Joyce. It sparked a world-wide sensation in literary and intellectual circles, resulting in a printed protest against Roth signed by 167 prominent writers, artists, and public intellectuals, including T.S. Eliot,W.B.Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and Albert Einstein. Joyce sued Roth for this publication charging that he had not given permission and that the text had been altered. Slocum & Cahoon pages 28-29. 159 c   KING, C. DALY. Careless Corpse. 8vo, publisher’s orange cloth, spine faded and tips rubbed, corners soft; endpapers age-toned, 2 pages advertisements at end. first edition , presention copy , signed and inscribed “To Marian Callsius [?] - / lest we forget / C. Daly King / 1 May 1939.” London: Collins for the Crime Club, (1937) [400/600] with - Obelists Fly High. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, spine faded, few blemishes to boards; 4 page cata- logue at end. First edition. London, (1935)