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James Joyce Susan Weil. Giacomo Joyce. Vincent Fitzgerald, 1989.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Illustrated edition. Folio. With numerous multimedia & paper cutout illustrations by noted artist Susan Weil, who studied at Black Mountain College with Robert Motherwell, and Ben Shahn and was married to fellow student Robert Rauschenberg for a time. One of 50 numbered copies Signed by the artist and bound in gray silk. A superb livre d'artistes with striking cutout and overlay collages that imaginatively interpret and complement the Joyce text. Fine condition
Seller: Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$4250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number 6 of only 50 copies; with a numbered and signed portrait of James Joyce, by Susan Weil., Printing by Wild Carrot Letterpres, Dante type set by Michael Bixler, calligraphy by Jerry Kelly, etching by Marjorie Van Dyke The Printmaking Workshop, collage by Zahra Partovi, paper: Dieu Donne & Japanese papers, binding by Zahra Partovi. 10 in. x 13 7/8 in., half-title; title-page with facing illustration; printed text pages with various types and colors of paper constructions, graphics placed between the pages, with details in watercolor, printed section from "The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", on pink paper, bound in; uses collage, etching, and various shapes and types of papers to interact with the text; printer's colophon page and the signed & numbered portrait of Joyce at the end. Gray cloth over boards, with title stamped in green on the spine: Joyce/Weil, and initials GJ stamped in silver on the front cover, special gray-green toned endpapers. Printed in an edition of fifty copies, this is one of Vincent FitzGerald's finest productions. In fine condition.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Joyce, James. Giacomo Joyce, by James Joyce. Vincent FitzGerald & Co, NY, 1989.
Price: US$10925.00 + shipping
Description: Folio. (32)pp. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist, Susan Weil. Throughout the text are scattered collages, cut papers, and etchings that work together to create an interactive, multimedia experience for the reader, who thus physically engages with the work in a manner reflective of reading Joyce's stream-of-consciousness literature. The book most obviously and completely points toward this characteristic freedom in a prepublication sampling of The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which is among the many passages included in the original Giacomo Joyce manuscript and appears in later novels. That original manuscript, which was comprised of fifty fragments transcribed onto large sheets of sketching paper, coheres into a love poem tracking the course of Joyce's infatuation with one of his students whom he taught while in Trieste between 1911 and 1914. This copy specially bound by Hannah Brown in a full leather case binding, with boards of grey goatskin decorated with linear embroidery in a variety of colors, taking as the basis for its design one of the illustrations within the text, where a sheet of silvery webbed paper with cut-outs overlays a pink sheet behind. Brown captures that motif mainly through her skillful embroidery, but also with occasional silver inlays and cut-outs to the boards, through the latter of which can be seen endpapers and matching doublures created by roller-ing acrylic paints in a range of colors onto Zerkall paper to match the colors found throughout the text block. Onto those endpapers and doublures Brown has embroidered in variegated thread excerpts from the text. Her care for color is likewise reflected in the stubs and bands, as well as in the spine of sanded pink goatskin. Very fine. Housed in cloth-covered clamshell box lined with felt.
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.