Shakespeare and Company / by Sylvia Beach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beach, Sylvia.

Contributor:

Glaser, Milton.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beach, Sylvia--Homes and haunts--France--Paris.

Beach, Sylvia.

Shakespeare and Company (Paris, France).

Literature publishing.

Authors and publishers.

History.

Booksellers and bookselling.

Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Paris (France).

Booksellers and bookselling--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Authors and publishers--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Literature publishing--France--Paris--20th century.

Americans--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Americans.

France--Paris.

France.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 230 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 21 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1959]

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; A 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 Frague; 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.

Notes:

Includes index.

"Jacket design by Milton Glaser."

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has signature covered with black ink.

OCLC:

573446