{"id":1657,"date":"2009-06-05T01:51:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T08:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/06\/ulysses-in-erotica\/"},"modified":"2009-06-05T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T18:24:12","slug":"ulysses-in-erotica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/05\/ulysses-in-erotica\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulysses In Erotica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/jun\/04\/ulysses-sells-record-price\" target=\"_blank\">from The Guardian UK<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-style: normal; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 18px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">First edition of Ulysses sells for record \u00a3275,000<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"stand-first\" class=\"stand-first-alone\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 14px; padding-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #666666; font-size: 1.333em; line-height: 1.25; width: 450px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px\">Well-preserved copy of James Joyce&#8217;s 1922 classic had been unread, except for the racy bits<\/p>\n<ul class=\"article-attributes\" style=\"padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; position: relative; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; font-size: 0.86em; line-height: 1.25; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; min-height: 36px; border-color: #d1008b\">\n<li class=\"byline\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; display: block; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/markbrown\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Mark Brown}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Mark Brown}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Mark Brown<\/a>, arts correspondent<\/li>\n<li class=\"publication\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">guardian.co.uk<\/a>,\t Thursday 4 June 2009 16.49 BST<\/li>\n<li class=\"history\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; display: block; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/jun\/04\/ulysses-sells-record-price#history-byline\" class=\"rollover historylink\" id=\"historylink-byline\" classname=\"rollover historylink\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Article history<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"article-wrapper\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"image\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2009\/6\/4\/1244132777544\/james-joyce-001.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" alt=\"james joyce\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #666666; line-height: 1.25; font-size: 0.857em; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px\">A first edition copy of the book Ulysees by James Joyce, on sale at Antiquarian Book Fair, Olympia, London. Photograph: Martin Argles\/Guardian<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to read any of Ulysses then it might as well be the racy bits at the end. And so it was with a fabulously rare first edition of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/jamesjoyce\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">James Joyce<\/a>\u00a0novel which today sold for \u00a3275,000, the highest price recorded for a 20th-century first edition.<\/p>\n<p>The astonishingly well-preserved and previously lost edition of the book, bought surreptitiously in a Manhattan bookshop despite it being banned in the US, was sold to a private buyer in London on the opening day of one of the world&#8217;s biggest antiquarian book fairs.<\/p>\n<p>Ulysses, hailed by some as a modernist masterpiece, follows the events of one day and is one of those novels that people often never quite get round to finishing, or in many cases starting.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce&#8217;s vast novel was met with bafflement and anger when it was first published in 1922 with one reviewer complaining that it &#8220;appears to have been written by a perverted lunatic who has made a speciality of the literature of the latrine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The more salacious bits are in the last episode, where Molly Bloom&#8217;s long stream-of-consciousness soliloquy ends in her orgasmic &#8220;yes I said yes I will Yes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This first edition is unopened \u2013 apart from that last episode. The copy is number 45 of the first 100 and is printed on fine Dutch handmade paper.<\/p>\n<p>[\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/jun\/04\/ulysses-sells-record-price\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at The Guardian<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian UK First edition of Ulysses sells for record \u00a3275,000 Well-preserved copy of James Joyce&#8217;s 1922 classic had been unread, except for the racy bits Mark Brown, arts correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 June 2009 16.49 BST Article history &nbsp; A first edition copy of the book Ulysees by James Joyce, on sale at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}