James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years

E-052: Harcourt, Brace & World. Very Good. 1965. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Cassell. 1966. 117 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. Signed and inscribe from Gisele Freund to the writer James Jones on the title page. Harcourt Brace DJ has shelf-wear present (wrong DJ, this is the Cassell edition with a chip present to the crown & heel of the DJ spine). Bound in cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Harcourt Brace DJ has shelf-wear present (chip present to the crown & heel of the DJ spine). Bound in cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In 1938, Freund had the opportunity to photograph James Joyce in Paris through her connections with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach. Joyce hated being photographed, and during one of the sessions he hit is head on a light, which cut his forehead. Joyce exclaimed, "I'm bleeding. Your damned photos will be the death of me," which he said, "forgetting in his pain that he had made it a rule never to swear in the presence of a lady." Freund was in a taxi crash right after the photo-session, which caused her cameras to crash to the ground. She called Joyce and said, "Mr. Joyce, you damned my photos — you put some kind of a bad Irish spell on them and my taxi crashed. I was almost killed and your photos are ruined”. Being superstitious, Joyce was convinced that his cursing in front of a lady had caused the crash, so he invited Freund back to his home for a second round of photographs. Time Magazine used one of these photos for its cover on May 8, 1939. The entire series of photographs would eventually be published in 1965 in James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years by Freund and V. B. Carleton and a Preface by Simone de Beauvoir. Freund became famous for her portraits of literary geniuses, including Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw and many others. E-052; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .