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(Joyce James/Vincent Fitzgerald) James Joyce: The Epiphanies. Interpreted by Susan Weil & Marjorie Van Dyke. Vincent FitzGerald & Company. New York. 1987. 12 signatures of text, 4 signatures of illustrations with loose covered introduction pages, colophon. 14” x 12”. Printed at the Wild Carrot Letterpress, with calligraphy by Jerry Kelly, on Moulin du Gue and Japanese papers All laid in a gray-brown cloth dropback box with Joyce’s profile limned in silver on its cover and ‘JJ’ in silver on spine made by David Bourbeau of The Thistle Bindery.  No. 45 in an edition of 50 numbered copies, signed by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke. Fine.

“The forty epiphanies here (never before published in a group), were written by Joyce between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one. A few of them were incorporated into Dubliners and Ulysses. For Joyce, both as man and writer, they were of major importance. In the Fitzgerald edition, one reads a text of paragraphs … that cumulatively take us through Joyce’s experiences as a boy … to and beyond his personal confrontation with the death of his brother and its meaning for him and his family.” – Corinne Robins, Arts Magazine, May, 1989.

“The visual images are grouped after the text under the headings of Death, Dreams, Planesand Games. Numbers connect the headings with the relevant epiphanies. From the title page where Joyce’s eyes became his glasses with images from all four sections, the impact and strength of the cut-out, lift-off, paste-on an accordion-fold images of Weil and Van Dyke, together with the text, combine to form “a unique reading/seeing experience.” – Corinne Robins.

This magnificent production was sold out on publication. We are fortunate to be able to offer this copy.

Related items: Catalogue 37 - Summer 2009, Catalogue 40- Spring-Summer 2011, Literature, James, James Joyce, Joyce, Marjorie Van Dyke, Susan Weil, Vincent FitzGerald