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1996UJOYLEA00sndLaura Geringer / Harper Colllins circa 1996. Very Good. Joyce William. The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs. NY: Laura Geringer / Harper Colllins circa 1996. Illustrated. 4to. Glossy paper over boards. Book condition: Very good with some scuffing. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Panels scratched most noticeable on rear panel. Laura Geringer / Harper Colllins hardcover
19292621Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1929. First edition. 194 pp. Original printed wrappers with cover design by Sylvia Beach. Top edge uncut and unopened. Some slight overall soiling to the wrappers slight chipping to the lower edge of the spine. Chemised in a custom slipcase.<br /> <br /> One of 96 numbered copies on Verge d'Arches the numbered copies are twice as thick as the ordinary edition due to the paper used. Various tributes and studies of Joyce's Work in Progress which was published ten years later as Finnegans Wake. As Beach wrote "these were writers who had been watching Work in Progress from the beginning each seeing it from his own angle but interested in Joyce's experiment and friendly towards it." Beckett's first appearance in book form with texts by Marcel Brion Frank Budgen Stuart Gilbert Eugene Jolas Victor Llona Robert McAlmon Thomas McGreevy Elliot Paul John Rodker Robert Sage and William Carlos Williams. With letters of protest by G.V.L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon reputed to have been written by Joyce himself. Slocum & Cahoon B10. Federman & Fletcher 1. Wallace B11. Shakespeare and Company unknown
192817230JNew York: Crosby Gaige 1928. First Edition. One of 800 numbered copies signed by the author James Joyce this copy being Number 547. Octavo. Typography by Frederic Warde. Beautifully bound in a rich brown cloth with gilt-stamping to the front board and spine and with a simple classical geometric line border stamped to the front and rear boards and top edge gilt. With the Crosby Gaige colophon design of a ram standing beneath “CG†within a circle. Some minor rubbing to board edges at spine and corners very small bump to fore-edge front board a few faint tiny bits of slight foxing to preliminaries; a near fine copy. Prints what is generally considered the most famous section from work in progress of what would become Joyce’s Finnegans Wake published in 1939. This elegant volume begins with the following from Padraic Colum’s preface: “‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’ is concerned with the flowing of a River. There have gone into it the things that make a people’s inheritance: landscape myth and history; there have gone into it too what is characteristic of a people: jests and fables. It is epical in its largeness of meaning and its multiplicity of interest. And to my mind James Joyce’s inventions and discoveries as an innovator in literary form is more beautifully shown in it than in any other part of his work.†Crosby Gaige hardcover
1920021432Paris 24 November 1920. Letter. Close to Fine. Small 4-1/2" x 6-1/2" AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "James Joyce" to Madame Yasushi Tanaka Louise Gebhard Cann on blue paper integral with envelope which is addressed in Joyce's hand and postmarked on the verso. In full: "Dear Madam In reply to your letter I shall call on you on Sunday afternoon next as it seems to be the most convenient time for you. Sincerely yours James Joyce." Louise Gebhard Cann was a prominent writer and art critic in early 20th century France. At Ezra Pounds suggestion Cann wrote to Joyce requesting an interview with him for an article on writers in France set to appear in an upcoming issue of THE PACIFIC REVIEW. Following publication of the "Nausicaa" episode of ULYSSES in THE LITTLE REVIEW the previous year Joyces writing was deemed obscene. This particular issue of THE LITTLE REVIEW was effectively banned in the United States and it is believed that because of the controversy the editors then decided to omit any mention of Joyce from the finished article published in the March 1921 issue of THE PACIFIC REVIEW. Ellman JAMES JOYCE LETTERS III: 32. <br/><br/> unknown
1927RJOYULY00tpmShakespeare and Co. Samuel Roth 1927 1929. Good. Joyce James. Ulysses. Paris NY: Shakespeare and Co. Samuel Roth 1927 1929. Unauthorized 1st U.S. printing. 735pp. 8vo. Greek blue wraps and deckle edges. Book condition: Good with bumped and chipped edges creased and cracked spine and faint soiling. An elusive copy of Joyce's Ulysses. Unauthorized printed and discreetly distributed by Samuel Roth in New York City and Philidelphia six years before before Ulysses' ban would be lifted in the U.S. Although Roth had formerly published Ulysses' serially in Two Worlds Monthly these full length copies made to pass as Shakespeare and Co.'s ninth printing would ulitmately place Roth in jail. Despite its disreputation it is nevertheless held by several special collections across the U.S. and is an essential character in the history of Ulysses and banned books in 20th century America. Shakespeare and Co. [Samuel Roth] paperback
19294072<p>Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929. First edition. Number 38 of 100 copies on Japanese Vellum signed by the author. 4to. 212x168mm. 8 XV 1 55 3. Original cream paper wrappers lettered in black and red to upper cover and spine and with 'black sun' motif on the lower cover. Original glassine wrapper. Slight chipping to head of spine and there are some tears to the glassine wrapper at the spine and to the front wrapper but overall in very good condition. Internally excellent with only very minor marking in a few places. Housed in the cardboard slipcase covered with green paper and edged in silver paper to which there is some slight marking and wear to the edges. Signed on the half title by James Joyce in black ink and illustrated with Constantin Brancusi's etching Symbole de Joyce intended by the artist to capture Joyce's "sens du pousser" and described as "a portrait as abstract as the author's text". With a preface by C.K.Ogden who in the same year as the publication of Shem and Shaun arranged a recording of Joyce reading from Anna Livia Plurabelle the first published section of Work in Progress. In an interview of 1936 Joyce said "I haven't lived a normal life since 1922 when I began Work in Progress. It requires an enormous amount of concentration.Since 1922 my book has become more real to me than reality and everything has led to it". "My book" is Finnegans Wake to which during its seventeen year gestation Joyce gave the name Work in Progress. In the late 1920s Joyce published three sections of Work in Progress: Tales Told of Shem and Shaun is the second. Reviews concentrated on the Joyce's verbal brilliance while noting its limited appeal. To H.G.Wells Work in Progress was "an extraordinary experiment" but also "a dead end". Joyce was undeterred. In 1937 two years before the publication of Finnegans Wake Joyce said of "the few fragments which I have published" that they "have been enough to convince many critics that I have finally lost my mind.And perhaps it is madness to grind up words in order to extract their substance or to graft them one onto another to create crossbreeds and unknown variants to open up unsuspected possibilities for these words to marry sounds which were not usually joined together before although they were meant for one another to allow water to speak like water birds to chirp in the words of birds to liberate all sounds of rustling breaking arguing shouting cracking whistling creaking gurgling - from their servile contemptible role and to attach them to the feelers of expressions which grope for definitions of the undefined".</p> Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929 hardcover
193630022London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1936. First Edition English Issuance First Authorized English edition one of 900 copies only printed on special Japon vellum papers probably the most beautiful First Edition of ULYSSES ever printed. Tall thick royal 8vo publisher’s original full green polished linen buckram with the gilt lettering and pictorial decoration of the gilt bow designed by Eric Gill on the upper cover and spine housed in the rare printed dustjacket lettered in black on the upper cover and on the spine and decorated with the bow in red on the spine panel. xvi 766 pp. A well preserved copy the covers of the green cloth in bright and beautiful condition without any of the fading typical to the book the back just a bit mellowed at the tips the dustjacket with the price still intact and showing some light aging and some evidence of use or handling but whole and without major defects or substantial wear some tidying up to the verso. A pleasing survival with all aspects of a collector’s demands in good order. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT LITERARY FIRST EDITION ARGUABLY THE GREATEST WORK OF FICTION OF THE 2OTH CENTURY RARE IN THE DUSTJACKET. This an extremely impressive copy of the first authorized English edition. IT IS ALSO THE FIRST EDITION of ULYSSES PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. The superb binding executed in full polished linen buckram has been especially designed for this great book. DESIGNS FOR THE BINDING EXECUTED IN GILT WERE ACCOMPLISHED BY ERIC GILL ONE OF THE MOST GIFTED MASTERS OF THE ART.<br> The typeface is extremely attractive and very readable the printing on fine paper makes the book unusually handsome and presents what is perhaps the most beautiful printing of ULYSSES ever accomplished. <br> Along with the text there are a series of appendices attached including copies of the International Protest against the unauthorized and mutilated printings of ULYSSES done especially in the United States; a copy of the injunction issued to prevent Samuel Roth from continuing his piracies of ULYSSES; a copy of Joyce’s letter to Bennet Cerf concerning the promotion legal fight and publication of ULYSSES on the author’s behalf; a copy of the decision of the US District Court which was rendered on December 6 1933 which lifted the ban on ULYSSES and a copy of the subsequent decision of the US Court of Appeals rendered in August of the following year which upheld the original decision; a copy of the forward to the first American edition and a bibliography of the works of James Joyce.<br> ULYSSES can be viewed as the pinnacle of the Modernist movement and its impact on all subsequent western literature is unmistakable. Such writers as Virginia Woolf John Dos Passos William Faulkner Samuel Beckett Malcolm Lowry and Anthony Burgess have all paid tribute consciously or unconsciously to Joyce's influence. Burgess as well pronounced it the greatest single work in the English literature of this century and he is not alone in that opinion.<br> John Lane, The Bodley Head hardcover
193569530New York: Limited Editions Club 1935. Edition limited to 1500 copies signed by Matisse this being copy 1408 and the first illustrated edition of Joyce's monumental novel. 4to pp. iii-xv 3 363 3; 26 plates 6 soft-ground etchings printed by hand and 20 lithographic drawings made as studies for the etchings printed on thin colored papers; original brown buckram with a gold embossed design on the front cover and repeated on the spine; a fine copy in the original publisher's box lettered and decorated in brown on spine; box shows some light soiling and staining and which also shows very small cracks at the lower extremities. Small bookplate on front free endpaper. One of the most important illustrated books of the 20th century. "The text of this edition is based on that of the Odyssey Press edition second impression and is therefore the most accurate text of Ulysses that has been published in the United States" Slocum & Cahoon. As the story goes Joyce signed 250 copies but ceased in a huff when he learned that Matisse had made the illustrations based on Homer's Odyssey not his own Ulysses which was only based on Homer. Slocum & Cahoon A22; LEC Bibliography 71. Limited Editions Club unknown
193569620New York: The Limited Editions Club 1935. MATISSE Henri; LIMITED EDITIONS CLUBGILBERT Stuart. GILBERT Stuart contributor. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. MATISSE Henri illustrator. Ulysses LEC. With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert and illustrations by Henri Matisse. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1935.<br> <br> Full Description:<br> <br> MATISSE Henri illustrator. JOYCE James. Ulysses. With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert and illustrations by Henri Matisse. New York: Limited Editions Club 1935.<br> <br> Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Henri Matisse this being number 956. Quarto<br> <br> 11 5/8 x 9 inches; 295 x 230 mm. xv 3 363 7 blank pp. Twenty-six plates by Matisse consisting of six etchings printed by hand and twenty lithographic drawings made as studies for the etchings printed on thin colored papers.<br> <br> Original full brown buckram embossed in gilt on front board and spine from a design by LeRoy H. Appleton. Top edge speckled bottom edge uncut. Spine gilt just a bit darkened. Front inner with hair splint but firm. Small bookseller stickers on front and rear endpapers. With the publisher's original printed slipcase. Slipcase with some minor wear along edges. Still a near fine copy.<br> <br> "One of the very few American livres de peintres issued before World War II. According to George Macy who undertook this only American publication of Matisse's illustrations he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide for five thousand dollars. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer's Odyssey. The preparatory drawings reproduced with the soft-ground etchings Matisse's only use of this medium record the evolution of the figures from vigorous sketches to closely knit if less spontaneous compositions." The Artist and the Book.<br> <br> "The text of Ulysses is printed in double columns throughout; the running title and pagination are printed in brown. The six etchings by Henri Matisse with their accompanying sketches on yellow and blue paper depict the Calypso Aeolus Cyclops Nausicaa Circe and Ithaca episodes. These six etchings were issued separately by the Print Club New York 1935 in an edition of 150 copies. The text of this edition is based on that of the Odyssey Press edition A20 second impression" Slocum and Cahoon.<br> <br> The Artist & the Book 197. LEC bibliography 71. Slocum and Cahoon A22.<br> <br> HBS 69620.<br> <br> $6500. The Limited Editions Club unknown
193681820London:: John Lane The Bodley Head 1936. First edition printed in England; trade issue; No.571 of 900 copies on Japon vellum. . publisher's green buckram stamped with Homeric bow in gold; t.e.g. iin dust jacket. A fine copy in a dust jacket with slight creasing and use; uncommon in this condition. Small 4to. John Lane, The Bodley Head, hardcover
193987094London: Faber & Faber 1939. First trade edition. Hardcover. 1939 First trade edition first impression. Royal 8vo. Original red cloth ruled and lettered in silver to spine. Dust-jacket priced 25s. A very good first edition of Joyce's key work of literary modernism a hallucinatory dream-like narrative centred on the Earwicker family that weaves myth history and language into a cyclical structure. Very minor rubbing to jacket extremities but overall a very good example. Very Good Faber & Faber hardcover
1929181353Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1929. Who is Sylvia What is she that all our scribes commend her First edition first issue a press copy inscribed by Beach on the title page "the publisher Sylvia Beach" and with "press copy" ink-stamped on the initial blank. The first article "Dante. Bruno. Vico. Joyce" is Samuel Beckett's first appearance in print while the wider collection is among the earliest critiques of Finnegans Wake published ten years before the novel. The French writer Andre Chamson wrote "Sylvia carried pollen like a bee. She cross-fertilized these writers She did more to link England the United States Ireland and France than four great ambassadors combined. It was not merely for the pleasure of friendship that Joyce Hemingway Bryher and so many others often took the path to Shakespeare and Company in the heart of Paris." This early critique of Joyce's final work was partially intended to raise funds for the perennially impecunious writer. Other contributors include Marcel Brion Frank Budgen Stuart Gilbert Eugene Jolas Victor Llona Robert McAlmon Thomas McGreevy Elliot Paul John Rodker Robert Sage and William Carlos Williams. The publishers later sold sheets of this edition to Faber & Faber in London and New Directions in New York who reissued them with inserted title pages but this copy is from the original Paris issue. Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. Housed in custom orange cloth slipcase and chemise. Nicking and a couple of spots of faint toning to extremities short closed tears to spine ends chipping and toning to otherwise clean contents many leaves unopened: a very good copy. Slocum & Cahoon B10. hardcover
1928835131928. JOYCE James. Anna Livia Plurabelle. Orig. cloth t.e.g. New York: Crosby Gaige 1928. Slocum and Cahoon A32. First edition first issue. One of 800 signed copies this being no. 515. An early published chapter from Joyce's "work in progress" that would eventually become Finnegans Wake. A fine copy. unknown
191882207New York:: B. W. Huebsch 1918. First American edition. publisher's cloth-backed blind-embossed boards in dust jacket. Preserved in a custom cloth slipcase. Some slight foxing to the endsheets and half-title page; in an unworn binding. the dust-soiled dust jacket has a few minor chips and tiny tears. . 12mo. B. W. Huebsch, hardcover
193269434New York: Berenice Abbott 1932. JOYCE James; ABBOTT Berenice. ABBOTT Berenice. Photographic Portrait of James Joyce by Berenice Abbott. New York: Bernice Abbott 1932.<br> <br> Full Description:<br> <br> JOYCE James. ABBOTT Berenice. Photographic Portrait of James Joyce by Berenice Abbott. New York: Berenice Abbott n.d. taken 1928.<br> <br> Original gelatin silver print portrait of Joyce taken by Abbott. Signed by the photographer in pencil in the lower right hand corner of the photograph. Mounted on stiff board. Abbott's stamp with her "50 Commerce Street NY" address on the verso of the mount. Image size: 13 x 10 1/8 inches; 330 x 260 mm. Some minor sunning around the perimeter of the photo. A tiny bit of scuffing to top and bottom edges. Otherwise about fine. This is the largest photo we can find of Joyce for the Commerce St. address. Swann Galleries who has had this photo before states "Circa 1932."<br> <br> This is a lovely and well-know portrait of author James Joyce. He is seated in Abbott's studio with a cane wearing a hat and his signature round-framed glasses. "Abbott photographed Joyce on two occasions the first in 1926 at his home in Paris and the second two years later in her studio. At the time of the sitting Joyce was struggling with teeth and eye problems and was struggling through completion of one of his best-known works Finnegan's Wake."<br> <br> "Berenice Alice Abbott July 17 1898 - December 9 1991 was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s." Wikipedia Abbott lived at 50 Commerce St. in NYC with her partner the influential art critic Elizabeth McCausland from 1935 to 1965.<br> <br> HBS 69434.<br> <br> $6000. Berenice Abbott unknown
193150369New York:: Sylvia Beach 1931. First authorized American edition. original gray-blue wrappers stamped in black. Very slight crease to front wrapper; else a fine copy. 12mo. Slocum and Cahoon A25. Sylvia Beach, unknown
193551936New York: Limited Editions Club 1935. Hardcover. very good . Henri Matisse. 363p quarto. A very good copy in a worn publisher's slipcase. Inner hinges cracked but holding. Limited to 1500 copies this copy is number 1137. Signed by Henri Matisse. Matisse's illustrations for this work were the source of much outrage for Joyce as it came to be discovered that Matisse never read the book. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover
1907140946996London: Elkin Mathews 1907. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition of James Joyce's first trade book and one of 509 copies originally printed. Second issue with thick wove endsheets. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with slight fading to spine cloth foxing to endsheets and preliminary matter contents tanned. A beautiful copy of this collection of poems with the title being derived from the sound of urine hitting a chamber pot. Slocum & Cahoon 3. Elkin Mathews unknown
19188532Boston and New York: The Cornhill Company / B.W. Huebsch 1918. First Unauthorized and Authorized American Editions. 1. Chamber Music. Boston: The Cornhill Company 1918. First Unauthorized American Edition First Printing one of ca.1000 copies. 12mo. 15.75cm; sage green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on upper front cover; wove endpapers also issued with laid endpapers with no priority established; glassine dustjacket; 40pp. A fresh Fine copy in a Near Fine copy of the publisher's glassine overlay showing some trivial wear a tiny tear at crown with a few tiny nicks.<br /> <br /> 2. Chamber Music. New York: B.W. Huebsch 1918. First Authorized American Edition First Printing. Octavo 18.25cm; dark brown laid paper-covered boards with titles stamped in blind on spine and in gilt on front cover; top edge gilt; dustjacket; 48pp. Some offsetting and two small faint splash marks to lower endpapers gentle sunning to spine with mild crease to heel; Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustjacket priced $1.00 at base of spine; edgeworn gently spine-sunned and lightly dust-soiled with shallow losses and a few tiny tears to spine ends and extremities none affecting lettering and corresponding faint splash marks to lower flap edges; an unrestored Very Good example. Both volumes housed together in a custom crushed morocco and marbled paper clamshell case.<br /> <br /> Joyce's first collection of poems originally issued by Elkin Mathews in 1907. The Cornhill edition published June 1918 precedes the authorized American edition published by B.W. Huebsch September 30 1918 by three months. Slocum & Cahoon A5 & A6. 8532. The Cornhill Company / B.W. Huebsch unknown
19291882Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929. First edition. Limited one of 500 numbered copies printed in red and black on Holland Van Gelder Zonen 650 copies altogether. Provenance: the author’s grandson’s Stephen James Joyce’s bookplate. Illustrated with the famous abstract portrait by Constantin Brâncuși. In publisher’s wrappers. In the original gilt leafed cardboard slipcase. Slipcase slightly worn. Spine somewhat worn and stained. Otherwise in fine condition. First edition. Limited one of 500 numbered copies printed in red and black on Holland Van Gelder Zonen 650 copies altogether. Provenance: the author’s grandson’s Stephen James Joyce’s bookplate. Illustrated with the famous abstract portrait by Constantin Brâncuși. In publisher’s wrappers. In the original gilt leafed cardboard slipcase. 10 XV 1 55 7 p. and one loose plate protected with tracing paper. <p><br /> Limited first edition of Joyce’s Tales Told of Shem and Shaun the author’s grandson’s copy.<br /> <p><p><br /> This book includes three fragments from Work in Progress later published as Finnegans Wake.<br /> <p><p><br /> Stephen James Joyce 1932-2020 was the grandson of James Joyce and the executor of Joyce's literary estate.<br /> <p>. The Black Sun Press unknown
19396185London: Faber and Faber Limited 1939. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First trade edition. In original unclipped jacket in a protective sheet. The jacket has some edge wear chipping and light toning to the spine. Bound in red cloth over boards with gilded lettering and lines on the spine. Square corners no lean slight push at the head of the spine. Long and lower edges roughly trimmed. Many pages uncut though also loose from being handled. Some toning to edges. Toning to pastedowns a few preliminary pages and final page of text; infrequent elsewhere. Joyce's follow-up to his Ulysses Finnegans Wake was written between 1922 and 1939. It was initially published in installments and its title was only revealed with the final publication. Its use of language lack of normal structure and use of characters baffled and baffle many readers though some consensus has formed around themes etc. Preceded by a 425-print run of signed limited editions. <br /> <br /> Pages: 8 628 Dimensions: 913/16 x 69/16 x 19/16. Faber and Faber Limited unknown
19211403270London: The Egoist Press 1921. Third Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo 299 pages. In Fair condition. Bound in green cloth boards. Cloth on spine missing; part of a page has been adhered to spine in its place. Rubbing to edges and corners of boards. Heavy soiling to rear board lighter soiling to front board. Writer and founder of publishing house Contact Editions Robert McAlmon's bookplate adhered to front pastedown. Pencil markings to "By the Same Writer" page. Soiling from rear board affecting textblock from page 288 to rear pastedown. Tearing to rear pastedown. Age toning throughout. SH consignment. Shelved case 2. Printed in the United States of America using sheets imported from B.W. Huebsch. Presumed given to William Bird either to read or for a project regarding Three Mountains Press. Robert McAlmon ran Contact Editions and typed and edited the handwritten manuscript of Ulysses by James Joyce. This copy was possibly used by McAlmon regarding The Egoist Press' 1922 publication of Ulysses. <br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound Ernest Hemingway James Joyce William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933 when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> This title was among Bird's private collection having been carted by him from Paris where he stayed until 1940 to Spain Tangiers and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US. 1403270. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Egoist Press hardcover
1916345922New York: B.W. Huebsch 1916. First edition. iv 299 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine and in blind on front cover. Some rubbing spine ends and slightly on corners one scratch to front cover near spine not affecting blind stamp; very clean internally. First edition. iv 299 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of Joyce's autobiographical novel recounting the schooldays and emerging artistic consciousness of his alter-ego Stephen Dedalus. The novel was refused by Grant Richards publisher of Dubliners Secker and Edward Garnett for Duckworth. Finally B.W. Huebsch agreed to take on the book if Harriet Weaver who had serialized the novel in The Egoist in 1914 would arrange for 750 copies to be published in London. It was published first in New York by Huebsch on 29 December 1916 and then in London on 22 January with the American sheets and a cancel Egoist title-page. Slocum & Cahoon A11 B.W. Huebsch unknown
19358741<p>Number 58 of 1500 copies signed in pencil by Henri Matisse a further 250 copies of the edition were additionally signed by Joyce. This is the first illustrated edition of Ulysses though Matisse chose to supply illustrations of the Calypso episodes of Homer's Odyssey corresponding to the six episodes of the novel as his artist's response to Joyce's text which it is often said he never finished reading. He thus confounded both the publisher George Macy and most of the public on its first publication. The Limited Edition Club edition owes its existence to the lifting of the American ban on the novel in December 1933.</p><p>Large 4to 295 × 225 mm pp. 363 1 6 soft ground etchings on thick paper with a total of 20 reproductions of Matisse's preliminary drawings on yellow and blue paper of different sizes 26 illustrations in all. Original brown buckram gilt with gold orb design to the upper cover original slipcase. The slipcase slightly chipped towards the head. A fine copy with the cloth binding exceptionally sharp and free of rubbing.</p> Limited Editions Club.
1937510540Verve 1937. First Edition. Paperback. FINE. Complete run of the first four issues of Teriade's legendary art magazine. Beginning with a stunning cover produced by Matisse for the first issue Verve would incorporate fresh artwork into its cover designed newly commissioned by artists such as Miro Picasso Chagall and other leading lights of the French art world. Each issue offered spectacular color lithographs printed by the Paris lithographers Mourlot. Early issues came in litho-printed card wrappers in boxes later volumes would be in paper-over board with litho covers. This choce allowed Teriade to feature the fresh lithographic artwork in the cover design but left the books themselves extremely fragile and succeptible to wear. Additionally the full-page lithographs have been continuous targets for art dealers looking to excise the plates. So condition seen here is quite rare with each volume preserved COMPLETE FINE with no signs of the wear and toning so commonly seen. 'The cover of Verve No. 1 is by Henri Matisse; it consists of three unmodulated colors--red blue and black--that the master cut directly from printers' ink specimen books. . Mattisse's cover for the first issue lithographed by Fernand Mourlot printers was an original work of art created expressly for the magazine--as would be practically all of the Verve's covers. . The painter took great pains to make sure that the cover would turn out exactly as he wished. . THe care Matisse lavished on what others might consider a minor undertaking was one of the hallmarks of Teriade's publications. How did he induce the greatest artists of this century to give the very best of themelves . Matisse and Teriade shared a common ideal. For both of them painting was life itself.' Michel Antonioz VERVE: The Ultimate Review of Art and Literature 35-36. Verve paperback