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Price: US$44.00 + shipping
Description: [24]p, several ills (the binding, page spreads), some in color. Printed in letterpress. Former owner's ink stamp on title page. Description of the novel, the project, the artist, the illustrations, titling of images, color for prints, the collaboration, the text, book description, and extra suite of prints. One page reproduces part of Molly Bloom's soliloquy, set in 18-point Perpetua. Elegant documentation of this exceptional partnership. The edition was limited to 150 copies for sale ($7,500), and 40 copies with the extra suite of 22 prints for sale ($30,000). Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. Very good (light handling wear)
Seller: Robin Bledsoe, Bookseller (ABAA), Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$13500.00 + shipping
Description: Book: (12 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches). Sheets: (12 1/2 x 9 inches). Plate marks: (4 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches). First edition. [I-VIII] [1-8] 9-835 [12] with 40 plates interposed throughout, pp. 835. 40 etchings, 20 in color; 18 are chapter numbers, 22 are illustrations. Numbered 123 of 175 copies: 150 for sale, 25 hors commerce, plus 10 additional printers' copies without illustrations and with modified limitation page and titles. Signed by Motherwell on limitation page. Blue, white-flecked silk half-bound in white, alum-tawed pigskin with dye-stamped blue letters in Gill Sans type on spine. Within blue, white-flecked silk slipcase with label printed in black on spine, as issued. The forty prints are joined as twenty pairs, tipped together at the fore-edge and gutter, with hinges pasted and sewn into sections. The sections are hand-sewn with linen thread over linen tapes and with linen headbands. Printed in Perpetua type on mould-made Johannot wove paper. The extraordinary fine Arion Press edition of Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses, signed by artist Robert Motherwell and featuring 40 of his etchings, together with extra promotional materials and publisher's correspondence. "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed . . ." And so begins James Joyce's Ulysses, a rollicking tour-de-force of the English language, and Joyce's magnum opus. In the world of fine press publications, the Arion Press edition of Ulysses stands out as a remarkable testament to the power of artistic collaboration and visual storytelling. Created by the esteemed, long-running Arion Press of San Francisco, this major literary achievement offers readers a journey nonpareil where words and images intertwine to leave a lasting impression. At the heart of this exceptional edition are forty exquisite etchings by Robert Motherwell, a canonical figure in American Abstract Expressionist painting. Motherwell's free-flowing etchings breathe life into Joyce's prose and capture the essences of Stephen Dedalus, the Blooms, and Buck Mulligan, as well as of Ireland itself. Each etching contributes to the thematic and textural depth of Ulysses, providing readers with an evocative visual companion to the Dublin adventure. Included with the work are copies of The Ulysses Etchings of Robert Motherwell, pp. 26, only 250 copies published; Prospectus for Ulysses by James Joyce with Forty Etchings by Robert Motherwell, pp. 24; and two items of correspondence from 1988 to New York City bookdealer Carol H. Cohen from Andrew Hoyem and G. B. Carson of Arion Press. Ulysses is the twenty-seventh publication by the Arion Press. The book was designed by Andrew Hoyem and produced under his direction with G. B. Carson, Matthew Kelsey, Gerald Reddan, Glenn Todd, Lawrence Van Velzer, and Marilyn Young. Monotype for the roman was composed by Michael Bixler in Skaneateles, New York, and cast by Lewis Mitchell at Mackenzie Harris Corp. in San Francisco. The display type and italic in the text was set by hand; the pages were made up and the letterpress printing was done on a Miller cylinder press at Arion Press.The etching plates were prepared and proofed by Catherine Mosley at Robert Motherwell's studio in Greenwich, Connecticut. Additional color proofing and the intaglio printing was done at R. E. Townsend, Inc., in Georgetown, Massachusetts, by Robert Townsend and Katherine Hanlon. The titles of the twenty-two Motherwell illustrations are "James Joyce," "Telemachia - Odyssey - Nostos," "The Tower," "History," "Philology," "Nymph," "Communicants," "Hades," "Lungs," "Architecture," "Scylla and Charybdis," "The Streets," "Music," "Cyclops," "Star of the Sea," "The Hospital," "Midnight," "Skin-the-Goat," "Skeleton," "The Bed," "Penelope," "Trieste - Zurich - Paris."
Seller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$36500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This book is in Fine condition. The lettering to the spine is bright and unrubbed. There are no bookplates, signatures, or markings of any kind. The pages are clean and free of any foxing. This is a limited edition #27 of 40 copies signed by Robert Motherwell. The book contains 40 etchings by Robert Motherwell, 20 of which are in color. The book comes with its rare original slipcase in good condition. There is some fading to some of the sides of the slipcase. This is the deluxe edition which comes with a separate portfolio with an additional set of the etchings. Each etching in the additional suite of prints is signed in initials and numbered by Robert Motherwell. The clamshell case for the portfolio has some fading and minor staining to its front cover. It also comes in its original carboard shipping container from the Arion Press.
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.