Joyce (James).- [Lewisohn (Ludwig) and Archibald Macleish] [International Protest against Samuel Roth's piracy of Ulysses], printed broadside in French, list of names in triple-column, folds, slight creasing, very slight toning, [not in Slocum & Cahoon], Paris, 2 February, 1927; with the prospectus for Adrienne Monnier 1929 French edition of Ulysses, complete with author's portrait (often lacking) and a small group of newspaper clippings, v.s. (5)

⁂ Rare broadside, published on Joyce's birthday, and signed by almost all the leading literary figures of the day, in an attempt to stop Samuel Roth publishing excerpts of Ulysses in his Two Worlds Monthly magazine.

Joyce conceived of the idea of the present work as a way of dissuading Roth from publication while the inevitably slow legal efforts got underway. Two friends of Joyce, the editor Lewisohn and the poet and lawyer MacLeish drew up the work and sent it to prominent writers the world over for their signatures, 167 of whom agreed to put their name to the document.

Signatories include Albert Einstein, H.G. Wells, W.B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, Paul Valery, Bertrand Russell, Marcel Prevost, Sean O'Casey, Liam O'Flaherty, Italo Svevo, Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Alice S. Green, Andre Gide, Augusta Gregory, Robert Bridges, Arnold Bennett, Knut Hamsun, Wyndham Lewis, Gabriel Miro, Bunin, Luigi Pirandello and T.S.Eliot.