sylvia beach shakespeare and company book

This is the story of Sylvia Beach's legendary Paris bookshop: '.is a unique record, written with gusto,humor, and affection, of an important chapter in literary history. 230 pages in very good condition albeit somewhat yellowed due to age 16 pages of illustrations and 7 pages of index. Original unclipped pictorial dust jacket in relatively good condition with tear and folding on both ends of the spine, and a slight closed tear on the back of the jacket.The front panel of the jacket features a vintage photo of the iconic bookshop. Ivory cloth with gilt lettering on binding in good condition with slight folding on both ends of spine. 1956, As stated First Edition, 1959 Second Printing.Harcourt, Brace and Company. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Original unclipped dust wrapper also smart with minor chipping and the odd small closed tear. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities.

A distinguished company of writers come to life in this record of an important chapter in literary history. She is known for her bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, where she published James Joyce's Ulysses in 1922 - then banned in every English-speaking country in the world - and encouraged the publication of Hemingway's first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems in 1923. Written by Sylvia Beach, an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived in Paris where she became one of the leading expatriate figures between the First and Second World War. The first edition of this collection of portraits of important literary figures in Sylvia Beach's story at Shakespeare and Company. No one failed to call but it is finally Joyce whose portrait remains a shy, quiet, infinitely curious, kindly, generous man She shows us the artist whose complex existence was given to his work As Beach says, 'He treated people invariably as his equals'' (New York Times). 2, 1922, Shakespeare and Company was known to writers the world over. And in doing so she succeeds in bringing back that whole small but intensely creative world around her bookshop and that of her friend, Adrienne Monnier which was the center of so much French literary activity.' Her book 'is particularly valuable for the many critical insights into Joyce's work and the authentic personal views it provides of the man himself.' After her publication of Ulysses 'on Joyce's birthday, Feb. It was in Sylvia Beach's legendary Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, that 'James Joyce's Ulysses was born.' In her memoir, Shakespeare and Company, Beach tells her story 'with simplicity, freshness and modesty. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York.

Sylvia beach shakespeare and company book