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The first-ever appearance in print of James Joyce's Story for Children, THE CATS OF COPENHAGEN in a special limited edition of 200 copies.
Michael Caine has printed this large-format letterpress edition with virtuoso skill, setting the text in a wondrously expressive array of original, early twentieth-century hand-cut Italian and French founts to capture the imagination of readers young and old. Casey Sorrow has brought to life Joyce's curious 'Københavnere' with ingeniously playful pen-and-ink drawings, specially commissioned, and printed by typographique cliché.
This Numbered issue, printed on Fedrigoni Freelife Vellum, is in double-elephant sextos and hand-bound in one-quarter cloth over marbled boards.
Further details and images are available at http://ithyspress.com

First Edition. New. One of 26 Lettered copies. Signed by the printer and the illustrator. The Lettered Deluxe issue, printed on Crisbrook Waterleaf handmade paper, is in loose imperial quartos, with hand-marbled paper-wrappers and presented in a cloth-covered slip-case. The first-ever appearance in print of James Joyce's story for children, The Cats of Copenhagen, in a special edition of 200 copies, limited to 26 Lettered copies, 170 Numbered copies & 4 copies Hors Commerce.Exquisite, surprising, and with a keen, almost anarchic subtext, The Cats of Copenhagen is a slightly younger twin sister to The Cat and the Devil, the only other known example of James Joyce writing a story for young children. Both works, penned within a few weeks of each other in 1936, are in letters posted to his only grandchild, Stephen James Joyce. Michael Caine has printed this large-format letterpress edition with virtuoso skill, setting the text in a wondrously expressive array of original, early twentieth-century hand-cut… Leer más

First Edition. Copy #372 of 800 Numbered copies. Letterpress printed in navy italics on white wove paper, with a frontispiece portrait of the author by Augustus John. Foolscap octavo. Bound in cream-white boards decoratively stamped in blue, with blue satin place-marker, issued in a glassine wrapper. A Near Fine volume in a Good original glassine wrapper. Wrapper is age-toned and chipped at head and tail, with light tanning to the exposed portion of the spine. This copy belonged to the Arthur Conan Doyle scholar, John Bennett Shaw (and his bookplate is included but unattached).
A lovely example of James Joyce's collaboration with the small, artisan presses at work in the 1920s and 30s.
The Black Sun Press was an exemplary Parisian fine press publishing house which brought together a community of diverse artists to produce deluxe, hand-set editions capturing the modernist scene in the late twenties and thirties. Originally founded as Éditions Narcisse, the Black Sun Press issued limited editions of… Leer más