A Topographical Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses.

HART, Clive and Leo Knuth.

Item Number: 109586

Colchester: A Wake Newslitter Press, 1975.

Second impression of Hart and Knuth’s topographical guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses. Quarto, original wrappers, with 3 diagrams and 18 maps in the original folder. With a first edition of Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce’s Tower, a pictorial historic guide to the James Joyce Tower where Joyce spent six nights in 1904. In very good condition.

Ulysses was published in Paris by Shakespeare & Company in 1922. “The novel is universally hailed as the most influential work of modern times” (Grolier Joyce 69). After working seven years on Ulysses, Joyce, desperate to find a publisher, turned to Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company in Paris. “Within a month of the publication, the first printing of Ulysses was practically sold out, and within a year Joyce had become a well-known literary figure. Ulysses was explosive in its impact on the literary world of 1922… Then began the great game of smuggling the edition into countries where it was forbidden, especially England and the United States. The contraband article was transported across the seas and national borders in all sorts of cunning ways” (de Grazia, 27).