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JOYCE (JAMES) The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies. A Fragment from Work in Progress, NUMBER VI OF 29 COPIES SIGNED BY JAMES AND LUCIA JOYCE, The Hague, G.J. Thieme for The Servire Press, 1934
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JOYCE (JAMES)
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A REMARKABLY FINE COPY, ONE OF JUST 29 SIGNED BY JOYCE AND HIS DAUGHTER LUCIA, IN ITS ORIGINAL GLASSINE WRAPPER AND BOX. This fragment forms pages 219-259 of Finnegans Wake, and was finely printed using an unusually large, round font. Joyce's daughter Lucia (1907-82) was diagnosed with schizophrenia when in her early twenties. Her attachment to Samuel Beckett, which the young Irish writer could not reciprocate, was extremely painful for both of them. After a failed attempt at becoming a dancer, Joyce was determined to find a new artistic outlet for her, believing it would be therapeutic. He hit upon the idea of her designing ornamental initials, and even gave publishers the money to pay her for her work. By the time this book appeared, she had already been hospitalized once, and a year later she was institutionalized for the remainder of her life.





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