Sylvia Beach papers concerning petitions against the pirating of Ulysses in America by Samuel Roth, 1926-1927.

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Sylvia Beach papers concerning petitions against the pirating of Ulysses in America by Samuel Roth, 1926-1927.

Typescript petitions signed by various hands, correspondence, etc... 183 pieces. The petition was circulated by Sylvia Beach, publisher of Ulysses.

1 box (.25 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8122238

Houghton Library

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Beach, Sylvia

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American bookshop proprietor and publisher in Paris. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Les DeĢserts, Savoie, to Ro[w]land Burdon-Muller, 1956 Aug. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270623077 ...

Joyce, James, 1882-1941

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James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy. In 1888 he was enrolled at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school near Dublin, where he stayed until 1891. Thereafter he attended Belvedere College, and then University College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1902 with a major in Italian. While at UCD Joyce wrote a paper in defense of Henrik Ibsen's drama called Drama and Life, which was ...

Roth, Samuel, 1893-1974

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During his career Samuel Roth (1893-1974) established bookstores in New York City that published and sold books, magazines, and erotica, and operated a mail order operation that defied Post Office censors for two decades. He founded two literary magazines, namely Beau--the first American "men's magazine--and Two Worlds. As a publisher, Roth was frequently accused of violating the copyrights of authors such as D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce, and was responsible for the first, unauthor...