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The Library of a Deceased Irish Collector
Lot 204

JOYCE (JAMES)
[LEWISOHN (LUDWIG) and ARCHIBALD MACLEISH. Protest Against Samuel Roth's Piracy of Ulysses], BROADSIDE, ENGLISH TEXT, first edition, Paris, 2 February 1927

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JOYCE (JAMES)

[LEWISOHN (LUDWIG) and ARCHIBALD MACLEISH. Protest Against Samuel Roth's Piracy of Ulysses], BROADSIDE, ENGLISH TEXT, first edition, printed on one side only, with place and date at head, the list of names in 3 columns, 3 horizontal creases where folded for mailing, 3 small nicks at edge, 4 small pencil crosses alongside the names of Einstein, Hemingway, Woolf and Yeats, one tiny old ink mark, preserved in custom made cloth folder, portfolio and black morocco-backed slipcase, upper cover with owner's butterfly net vignette and monogram 'DMS' [Grolier, Joyce 77; not in Slocum & Cahoon], folio (347 x 210mm.), Paris, 2 February 1927

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VERY RARE BROADSIDE: JOYCE'S PROTEST AGAINST ROTH'S PIRACY OF 'ULYSSES'. The protest was organized by Joyce after Samuel Roth's New York journal Two Worlds Monthly serialised a bowdlerized form of the book. This serialisation was not authorised by Joyce, but as Ulysses was banned in America, the author had no copyright protection. Joyce sought an injunction, but because the legal process was likely to be slow, he decided to supplement it with a public protest. Joyce, Sylvia Beach and others solicited signatures and 167 literary, intellectual and artistic figures added their names, including Einstein, T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, Gide, Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, Pirandello, Unamuno, Woolf and Yeats. An introductory statement was drafted by Ludwig Lewisohn, corrected by the lawyer Archibald MacLeish, and revised by Joyce. The protest, dated 2 February (Joyce's birthday), was issued to the press and copies were sent to the signatories.

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