Item #127498 The Little Review. A Magazine of the Arts. Making No Compromise with the Public Taste. Volume VI, Number 6, October 1919, to Volume VII, Number 4, January-March 1921 [10 consecutive issues]. James JOYCE, Margaret ANDERSON.
The Little Review. A Magazine of the Arts. Making No Compromise with the Public Taste. Volume VI, Number 6, October 1919, to Volume VII, Number 4, January-March 1921 [10 consecutive issues]
The Little Review. A Magazine of the Arts. Making No Compromise with the Public Taste. Volume VI, Number 6, October 1919, to Volume VII, Number 4, January-March 1921 [10 consecutive issues]
The Little Review. A Magazine of the Arts. Making No Compromise with the Public Taste. Volume VI, Number 6, October 1919, to Volume VII, Number 4, January-March 1921 [10 consecutive issues]
The Little Review. A Magazine of the Arts. Making No Compromise with the Public Taste. Volume VI, Number 6, October 1919, to Volume VII, Number 4, January-March 1921 [10 consecutive issues]
The Little Review. A Magazine of the Arts. Making No Compromise with the Public Taste. Volume VI, Number 6, October 1919, to Volume VII, Number 4, January-March 1921 [10 consecutive issues]
The Little Review. A Magazine of the Arts. Making No Compromise with the Public Taste. Volume VI, Number 6, October 1919, to Volume VII, Number 4, January-March 1921 [10 consecutive issues]
The Little Review. A Magazine of the Arts. Making No Compromise with the Public Taste. Volume VI, Number 6, October 1919, to Volume VII, Number 4, January-March 1921 [10 consecutive issues]
The Little Review. A Magazine of the Arts. Making No Compromise with the Public Taste. Volume VI, Number 6, October 1919, to Volume VII, Number 4, January-March 1921 [10 consecutive issues]

The Little Review. A Magazine of the Arts. Making No Compromise with the Public Taste. Volume VI, Number 6, October 1919, to Volume VII, Number 4, January-March 1921 [10 consecutive issues]

New York, Margaret C. Anderson, 1919 to 1921.

Octavo, 10 issues, variously 64 pages (seven issues), 80 pages (two issues) and 96 pages, with occasional illustrations (some tipped-in).

Original wrappers; Volume VI, Number 10 (March 1920) is a little nibbled at the foot of the spine; Volume VII, Number 4 has minor loss to the head of the spine and a small section missing from the bottom left corner of the front cover; apart from a few other insignificant chips and short tears, and trifling signs of use and age, the overall condition is excellent throughout, with five issues uncut (and one of them, Volume VII, Number 1, substantially unopened).

'"The Little Review", New York, between March 1918 and December 1920, published serially 13 and part of the 14th of the 18 episodes of "Ulysses". In all, 23 installments appeared before publication was stopped by action brought by the Society for the Suppression of Vice. The January and May 1919 and January and July-August 1920 numbers were banned by the United States Post Office' (Slocum & Cahoon). This short run of the periodical contains Volume VI, Number 6, October 1919 to Number 11, April 1920, and Volume VII, Number 1, May-June 1920 to Number 4, January-March 1921, with Volume VII, Number 3, September-December 1920 being a double issue. Significantly, eight of these ten issues (including two that were banned in the US) contain sections from 'Ulysses' (85 pages in all), and there are occasional references to the work-in-progress in other sections of the periodical. For instance, the printed note ('Advance in Price') on the second page of the double issue is discursive and informative in its explanation: 'We have not elected to make the "Little Review" into a bi-monthly or a quarterly, but the hazards and exigencies of running an Art magazine without capital have forced us to bring out combined issues for the past months.

Publication has been further complicated by our arrest on October fourth: Sumner vs. Joyce. Trial, December thirteenth. Mr. John Quinn has taken the case for Mr. Joyce. We will give a full report of the trial ...'. On the strength of this promise, the 'Reader Critic' in the following issue writes: 'Surely none of your audience gives a damn what the court says ... (no one with whom I have discussed "Ulysses" considers it more than "interesting")'.

'Founded by Margaret Anderson in March 1914, "The Little Review" became, over the course of its 15-year existence, one of the chief periodicals in the English-speaking world for publishing experimental writing and publicizing international art. The American magazine is famous today for its many bold gestures on behalf of the avant-garde - like its September 1916 issue, which protested the lack of acceptable material by leaving most of its pages blank, or the motto it subsequently appended to its title, "Making No Compromise with the Public Taste". "The Little Review" is also remembered for its multiple, cacophonous interests - according to Anderson, the magazine managed all told to represent 23 schools of art from 19 countries in its pages. Embracing tumultuous change first-hand, Anderson began editing "The Little Review" in Chicago, then moved the paper to New York in 1917 (after a short stint in San Francisco the year before), and later moved it overseas to Paris after 1922. Along the way, she was joined, in 1916, by Jane Heap, as co-editor, and then - heralding a new phase of the magazine - by Ezra Pound, as foreign editor, in 1917. During its first three years, "The Little Review" was largely an anarchist publication that battled on behalf of Imagism and published such writers as Richard Aldington, Sherwood Anderson, Maxwell Bodenheim, Ben Hecht, and Amy Lowell. Under Pound's influence, the magazine experienced a fresh infusion of international experimentalism and added contributions by the likes of Djuna Barnes, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Mina Loy, Francis Picabia, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, Gertrude Stein, W.C. Williams, and W.B. Yeats. But even among this talented field, "The Little Review"'s most lasting (and boldest) achievement was its serialization of Joyce's "Ulysses", in 23 installments, from 1918 to 1920 - until the Society for the Suppression of Vice charged the magazine with obscenity and Anderson and Heap, losing the court trial, were forced to discontinue the novel amid the "Oxen of the Sun" episode' (Modernist Journals Project website).

Slocum & Cahoon C53: VI.7-VII.3. [10 items].

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