Jun 13, 2017 - Sale 2451

Sale 2451 - Lot 225

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(D'AMBROSIO, JOSEPH.) Joyce, James. The Mookse and the Gripes. From Two Tales of Shem and Shaun. 3 block prints, 3 color serigraphs, and some colored designs on text pages by d'Ambrosio. 4to, bound in ruby red velvet and 23k gold leaf over a relief-serigraph, designed by the artist; publisher's mulberry lettered board chemise and slipcase. artist's proof copy from the edition of 75 copies signed by d'Ambrosio and printer, Elmore Mundell. Chicago: The Compulsive Printer, 1977

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with--Two other Artist's Proof copies of limited editions. Circ Circ Circ Trapeze Circus Circus. Color block prints and serigraphs. 4to, elaborate binding of full leather with painted inset surface enhanced with string, signed and numbered, also by d'Ambrosio; birch paper slipcase, soiled. One of 7 artist's proofs from a total edition of 50. Portage, Indiana and Chicago, 1976 Literary Figures. Title-page and 10 serigraphs that graphically reflect the writings of Joyce, Steinbeck, Fowles, Jackson, Gide, Mann, Durrell, Agee, Tolstoy, and Zola. Folio, contents bound into white woven silk-backed handmade paper boards, the volume attached to the cradle of a handmade clamshell box of black cloth over painted boards. One of 7 artist's proofs from a total edition of 50. Portage, Indiana and Chicago, 1978.