Shakespeare and Company /

The first publisher of James Joyce's "Ulysses" tells the story of her American bookshop in Paris, which was a center for famous writers of the twenties.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Beach, Sylvia (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., [1959]
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Harvest book ; 97
Subjects:	Beach, Sylvia > Homes and haunts > France > Paris. Shakespeare and Company (Paris, France) Paris (France) > Intellectual life > 20th century. Booksellers and bookselling > France > Paris > History > 20th century. Authors and publishers > France > Paris > History > 20th century. Literature publishing > France > Paris > History > 20th century. Americans > France > Paris > History > 20th century. Authors > Correspondence. Paris (France) > Intellectual life. Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare & Company (Paris, France) Écrivains > Correspondance. Paris (France) > Vie intellectuelle. Paris (France) > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle. Écrivains et éditeurs > France > Paris > Histoire > 20e siècle. Littérature > Édition > France > Paris > Histoire > 20e siècle. Beach, Sylvia Intellectual life Americans Authors and publishers Booksellers and bookselling Homes Literature publishing France > Paris Authors 1900-1999 Personal correspondence History Authors' presentation copies (Provenance) Authors' annotations (Provenance) > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

"for Who-is-silvier-"
Palais Royal ; The little gray bookshop of A. Monnier
A bookshop of my own ; Setting up shop ; Shakespeare and Company opens its doors
Pilgrims from America ; Mr. and Mrs. Pound ; Two customers from the Rue de Fleurus ; Sherwood Anderson
Ulysses in Paris ; James Joyce, care of Shakespeare and Company
Shakespeare and Company to the rescue ; Darantiere of Dijon ; A missing subscriber
Valery Larbaud ; 12 Rue de l'Odéon ; Greek blue and circe
Joyce's eyes ; At Larbaud's ; Garlic in a sponge ; Joyce and George Moore ; The reading at A. Monnier's ; "Saint Harriet"
My best customer
First copies of Ulysses ; Minerva-Hemingway ; A photograph of Mr. Bloom ; "Those scribblings of mine" ; Shakespeare and Company regrets ... ; Second edition ; Ulysses settles down
Bryher
Variety ; Visitors and friends ; "The crowd"
Fitzgerald, Chamson, and Prévost ; A. MacLeish ; Ballet Mécanique
The silver ship ; Whitman in Paris ; Contact and three mountains ; Jack Kahane ; The Crosbys ; Plain edition ; Gargoyle and Transatlantic ; Ernest Walsh and this quarter ; Transition ; Commerce ; Our friend Stuart Gilbert
Jules Romains and the "Copains" ; A French Shakespearean ; Jean Schlumberger ; Léon-Paul Fargue ; Raymonde
"Notre cher gide" ; My friend Paul Valéry
Joyce's exiles ; "A.L.P." ; Two records
Pomes penyeach ; Our exag ; Pirates
Successor to Ulysses ; James and two Johns
Away, away ... ; Joyce's way of life
Ulysses goes to America ; The thirties ; Friends of Shakespeare and Company ; "Expo 1937"
War and the occupation ; Shakespeare and Company vanishes
The liberation ; Hemingway liberates the Rue de l'Odéon.