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JOYCE (JAMES) AND HENRI MATISSE Ulysses... with an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert and Illustrations by Henri Matisse, ONE OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ARTIS, FROM AN EDITION LIMITED TO 1500 COPIES, New York, Limited Editions Club, 1935 image 1
JOYCE (JAMES) AND HENRI MATISSE Ulysses... with an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert and Illustrations by Henri Matisse, ONE OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ARTIS, FROM AN EDITION LIMITED TO 1500 COPIES, New York, Limited Editions Club, 1935 image 2
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JOYCE (JAMES) AND HENRI MATISSE
Ulysses... with an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert and Illustrations by Henri Matisse, ONE OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ARTIS, FROM AN EDITION LIMITED TO 1500 COPIES, New York, Limited Editions Club, 1935

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JOYCE (JAMES) AND HENRI MATISSE

Ulysses... with an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert and Illustrations by Henri Matisse, ONE OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ARTIS, FROM AN EDITION LIMITED TO 1500 COPIES, 26 plates, comprising 6 softground etchings and 20 facsimiles of sketches for the etchings on variously sized blue and yellow paper, publisher's brown buckram with abstract design including Matisse's Nausicaa embossed in gold on the front cover, spine decorated in gilt, upper joint weak, otherwise fine in restored original slipcase with matching gilt spine [Slocum & Cahoon A22; The Artist and the Book 197], 4to, New York, Limited Editions Club, 1935

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A FINE COLLABORATION BETWEEN TWO OF THE GREAT LITERARY AND ARTISTIC FIGURES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY - ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES SIGNED BY JOYCE AS WELL AS MATISSE. The edition was designed by George Macy and 1500 copies were printed, each signed in pencil by Matisse and sold to members of the Limited Editions Club for $10. Of these 250 randomly numbered copies were also signed (in ink this time) by Joyce, and sold for $15. The six Matisse etchings, with their accompanying sketches, depict the Calypso, Aeolus, Cyclops, Nausicaa, Circe and Ithaca episodes, while the double column text is based on the second impression of the Odyssey Press edition.

Provenance: "Max Trell, NYC" (probably the screenwriter and author of children's stories, 1900-1996), signature on front free endpaper.

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