Finn's Hotel
by James Joyce
- New
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0957068425
- ISBN 13
- 9780957068421
- Seller
-
Ballydehob, Cork, Ireland
2 Copies Available from This Seller
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About This Item
This is a copy of the Lettered Issue of the first edition, thus one of only 26 copies printed on Zerkall Litho (a 210gram, exceptionally fine mouldmade paper, watermarked and with deckled edges) for presentation as a loose-leaf book of ten signatures. The book is wrapped in a coloured paper cover with a letterpress printed label and then presented in a handmade black cloth-covered clamshell box. Traditionally, such loose-leaf formats are especially attractive to printing-arts enthusiasts and to collectors who prefer to rebind their books in a bespoke style to suit a particular library or collection.
The First Edition of FINN'S HOTEL by James Joyce. Edited, arranged and with a preface by Danis Rose, introduced by Seamus Deane, with eleven illustrations by Casey Sorrow. Designed and printed letterpress by Michael Caine for Ithys Press, Dublin. The Preface and Joyce's text have been handset by Caine in Van Dijk, Kis-Janson and various early 20th Century typefaces and the Introduction has been set by Phil Abel in Monotype Univers. The edition is limited to 180 copies : of 40 head copies on Zerkall mouldmade, 10 signed deluxe copies I-X are housed in bespoke bindings featuring the handmarbling of Antonio Vélez Celemín of Madrid, and 26 copies lettered A-Z and 4 copies Hors Commerce are issued in paper wrappers within clamshell boxes ; 140 numbered copies on Fedrigoni Vellum are presented in Elisabeth Hyder's printed paper over boards. The edition has been handbound by Tom Duffy in Dublin's 5 Lamps.
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- Bookseller
- Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FH.1.B
- Title
- Finn's Hotel
- Author
- James Joyce
- Illustrator
- Casey Sorrow
- Format/Binding
- Loose-leaf book of ten signatures, wrapped in red paper cover with a letterpress printed label, presented in a handmade black cl
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition; Lettered Issue, limited to 26 copies.
- ISBN 10
- 0957068425
- ISBN 13
- 9780957068421
- Publisher
- Ithys Press
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Letterpress, Modernist Literature
Terms of Sale
Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press
About the Seller
Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press
About Houyhnhnm Press & Ithys Press
Houyhnhnm Press is the publisher of landmark editions of James Joyce's "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake". Ithys Press is the publisher of illustrated, letterpress first editions of James Joyce's "The Cats of Copenhagen" and "Finn's Hotel". For more information about Houyhnhnm and Ithys Presses, please visit our websites:
http://www.houyhnhnmpress.com
http://ithyspress.com
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- Fine
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