ISBN: 9780957068414 The Cats of Copenhagen (3 items)

Dublin: Ithys Press, 2012. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Casey Sorrow. Limited Edition of 200 copies comprising of 26 lettered copies, 170 numbered copies and 4 de luxe copies hors commerce. This is Numbered copy No.8. Slim landscape 4to (publisher describes as "double-elephant sextos"), unpaginated with pp30 + colophon page with charming specially commissioned b/w illustrations by Casey Sorrow throughout. Hardcover issued without dust jacket. Hand-bound in one-quarter red cloth over blue marbled boards with card title label to front board. Binding in excellent near fine condition. Inside all pages printed on Fedrigoni Freelife Vellum in near fine condition. "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, are in letters posted to his only grandchild, Stephen James Joyce. This Ithys Press first edition is set from the text of the… Read more

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… Read more