Melissa Banta and Oscar A. Silverman (eds)

Sylvia Beach, owner of the famous Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, was one of the most important figures in James Joyce's literary career. She published Joyce's Ulysses, she sustained him, she protected him and she gave far more than she ever received.

Joyce's letters to Beach, which span a period of nearly twenty years, present the first complete record of their remarkable relationship. This correspondence comprises postcards, telegrams, verses and over 200 letters of which only thirteen have ever been published. These letters provide an inside glimpse into the endless activities related to James Joyce's literary output from 1921 into the 1930s.

Melissa Banta has been Assistant Curator of The Poetry/Rare Book Collection, and for a number of years an assistant to the Director of the University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo. The late Oscar A. Silverman was chairman of the English Department of University of Buffalo and Director of Libraries of State University of New York, at Buffalo.

ISBN 1-870495-12-8   £16.95