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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 image 1
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 image 2
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 image 3
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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)

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, from an edition limited to 1,029 copies, and on 'Simili Japon of Van Gelder Zonen', title printed in red and black, colour-printed initial letter and tailpiece after Lucia Joyce, bookseller's ticket on rear paste-down, untrimmed and partially unopened in publisher's light blue linen-covered boards, upper cover with gilt rule border, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket with design by Lucia Joyce and original glassine wrapper (within later protective wrapper), original grey box (rubbed and soiled), further preserved in custom made cloth portfolio and black morocco-backed slipcase, upper cover with owner's gilt butterfly net vignette and monogram 'DMS' [Slocum & Cahoon A43], 8vo, The Hague, G.J. Thieme for The Servire Press, 1934

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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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