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Déjeuner "Ulysse" : jeudi 27 juin 1929 : Hôtel Léopold, Les Vaux de Cernay.

Accession number
PML 197798
Published
Paris : Société génerale d'Imprimerie et d'édition, 71 rue de Rennes, 1929.
Credit line
Gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Notes
The menu for the commemoration luncheon, hosted by Adrienne Monnier, to celebrate the publication of the French translation of Ulysses in 1929.
Attendees at the luncheon included Edouard Dujardin, Paul Valéry, Phillipe Soupault, Jules Romains, Léon-Paul Fargue, Helen Kastor Fleischman, and Sylvia Beach, among others (cf. Joyce's Selected Letters, p. 342).
Library's copy housed with modern 8 x 10-inch reproduction of the photograph of the event.
Description
4 unnumbered pages ; 16 x 12.2 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by Dujardin at top right of cover in aqua blue ink.
Provenance
Edouard Dujardin's copy (his ownership inscription); the James Joyce Collection of Alexander Neubauer, cat. no. 53; The Sean and Mary Kelly Collection; gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Binding
Printed self-wrappers. Housed in a custom blue cloth chemise & blue quarter-morocco slipcase lettered in gold.
Classification
Department