James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses.

New York, NY Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934. Hardcover First Edition (1934), unstated. No subsequent printings noted. Same date on title and copyright pages. First Edition (1934), unstated. No subsequent printings noted. Same date on title and copyright pages. Very Good+: shows a hint of wear to the extremities and a bit of darkening to the front and rear endpapers; the expected light tanning to the text pages due to aging; a tiny snag to the cloth at the top edge of the rear panel; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and a couple minor, unobtrusive imperfections. Close to 'As New'. Lacks DJ. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.1 x 5.75 x 1.3 inches). 325 pages. Frontispiece plate portrait of James Joyce and illustrated with four plates containing drawings to Ulysses by the author. Language: English. Weight: 23.5 ounces. Crimson cloth over boards with black and designs at the front panel and backstrip. Hardback: Lacks DJ. Frank Spencer Curtis Budgen (1882 –1971) was an English painter, writer and socialist activist acquainted with the author James Joyce. Budgen was a member of the Socialist Labour Party and eventually its general secretary. He translated and published the first cheap edition of The Communist Manifesto with Lily G. Aitken. He was associated in Paris with the French writer Blaise Cendrars and the Swiss poet and translator Siegfried Lang. Joyce and Budgen spent much of the First World War in Zurich, and ran in similar social circles of artists, writers and musicians. According to Budgen's 1934 memoir, James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses, Joyce regularly discussed aesthetic matters with him, often referring to the content of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. The last of these three, Budgen stated, Joyce referred to at the time as Work in Progress; indeed from a number of the conversations he reports as having had with Joyce it appears that Joyce was working out the form and content of this work in part through his discussions with Budgen. This captivating study is the record of these conversations, and of their continuing friendship, as well as an acute critical commentary on the work itself. It is virtually the only first-hand account available of the growth of Ulysses. Budgen produced several portraits of Joyce. One from 1919 is held by the National Gallery of Ireland and was used as the frontispiece of this book.