May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(FITZGERALD, VINCENT.) Joyce, James. Bride-Ship and Gulls. 6 line etchings by Susan Weil, hand-painted in watercolor and gouache heightened with gold leaf, each mounted on museum board and framing the text volume; there is also one original collage in the text and one on the boards of the cover. 8vo, binding by Zahra Partovi; grey cloth clamshell box with circular recess, by the Thistle Bindery. Printed by Daniel Keleher at the Wild Carrot Letterpress. New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1991

Additional Details

number five of only twenty-five copies signed by weil and her final livre d'artiste celebrating the life and work of Joyce. The text of Bride-Ship and Gulls is taken from Finnegans Wake.