Rare Finds – A Guide to Rare Book Collecting

“Passages Of Unearthly Beauty” Joyce began writing Finnegans Wake in 1922, the same year Ulysses saw publication. Compared to that book, Finnegans Wake “took longer to write… was conceived and executed under a greater range of symbolic and mythic guidelines, was dictated to more famous amanuenses, among them Samuel Beckett, was used as a weapon [...]

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“It was a great idea to bring them together; celebrities of the same generation, of similar virtuosity” – Monroe Wheeler on the Joyce-Matisse Ulysses George Macy’s decision to commission Henri Matisse to illustrate Ulysses was a bold move for his fledgling Limited Editions Club in 1935. Scandal still swirled around James Joyce’s masterpiece, which had [...]

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