[Rarebooks] FS: LEC Joyce ULYSSES Signed by Henri Matisse with 6 Original Etchings

[Charles Agvent]

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containing 127 select items including a selection of fine bindings and Limited 
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Our new list will contain a superb collection of signed Presidential items, 
mostly books.  It will appear toward the end of the month as we have just 
acquired an extraordinary grouping of material that needs to be processed.

JOYCE, James. ULYSSES. New York: Limited Editions Club 1935. Full
brown  buckram  with  a gold embossed design on the  front  cover  and
repeated  on  the spine. Large square octavo, 9" x 11-1/2",  with  420
pages.  With  an introduction by Stuart Gilbert and  illustrations  by
Henri  Matisse  including  twenty drawings and six  ORIGINAL  ETCHINGS
printed  by  hand, being the earliest and one of the few instances  by
Matisse  to  represent physical agony and violence. Copy #211 of  1500
SIGNED  in  pencil by the artist. Covers are remarkably  bright,  like
new  with  just  a touch of rubbing to the central  gilt  device.  The
front  hinge  was  apparently cracked at one point but is  now  tight,
though  whoever did the repair could have been more careful as part of
the  free  endpaper  is adhered to the front pastdown at  the  gutter.
Very  slightly  shaken;  contents fresh. Slipcase with  archival  tape
repairs  along  bottom edge and part of top edge. Very Good in  soiled
Good or better slipcase.                                      $5000.00

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