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Ulysses. Limited edition, numbered 435. NY: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Hardcover, 9.25 x 12, 363 pages. Signed on the colophon in fountain pen by James Joyce and in pencil by Henri Matisse. Very fine. Book condition:
One year after the decade-long ban on publishing Ulysses in the United States was lifted, George Macy of the Limited Edition Club commissioned Henri Matisse to illustrate a deluxe edition of Joyce's masterpiece.The Limited Editions Club, 1935. 4°. 6 etchings and 20 reproductions of preliminary drawings by MATISSE. Original brown cloth, gilt-decorated on front cover and spine (with original slipcase, and even some of the original glassine cover). LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH MATISSE AND JOYCE, it was published in a limited edition of 1500, with all signed by the artist but just 250 copies also signed by Joyce.A FINE COLLABORATION BETWEEN ARGUABLY THE GREATEST WRITER AND THE GREATEST ARTIST OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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Ulysses Signed by James Joyce and Henri Matisse Limited Edition
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