Search Results: Titles starting with U from Bauman Rare Books

1921. First Edition . JOYCE, James. Ulysses Prospectus. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1921. One folded leaf, printed on both sides; pp. 4. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $10000.Very rare original Shakespeare and Company prospectus for Joyce's Ulysses.In 1919, Joyce's Ulysses began appearing in installments in the Egoist in London; although the Egoist's editor, Harriet Weaver, intended to publish the whole novel in book form (she even issued announcements of its forthcoming publication), no printers were willing to take the legal risk. The Little Review in Chicago then began publishing chapters, promptly leading to the prosecution of its editors, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, on charges of obscenity. Upon hearing of this from Joyce himself, Sylvia Beach offered to publish the work through her Parisian bookstore, Shakespeare and Company. ""Undeterred by lack of capital, experience, and all the other requisites of a publisher, I went right ahead with… Read More

1881. First Edition . HARRIS, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. New York: D. Appleton, 1881. Octavo, original gilt- and black-stamped pictorial green cloth, butterfly-patterned endpapers. $8500.First edition, first state, of the first and most beloved Uncle Remus book by Harris, the one American writer of the Reconstruction who ""has made the most permanent contribution,"" with eight plates and numerous text illustrations by Church and Moser, in original cloth-gilt.""Harris' main concern in setting [the stories] down was to preserve the remnants of a folklore which he was sufficiently farseeing to know would one day perish from the earth unless someone who understood the racial psychology and social philosophy behind it acted as amanuensis to its surviving narrators"" (Twenty-three Books, Winterich, 102). ""Of all the American writers of [the Reconstruction] period, Joel Chandler Harris has… Read More