[JOYCE James] GHEERBRANT Bernard. JAMES JOYCE, SA VIE SON RA - Lot 243

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[JOYCE James] GHEERBRANT Bernard. JAMES JOYCE, SA VIE SON RA - Lot 243
[JOYCE James] GHEERBRANT Bernard. JAMES JOYCE, SA VIE SON RAYONNEMENT. Paris, La Hune, 1949: in-8 (190 x mm) of [128] pp. paperback, illustrated cover with flaps. First edition of this catalog published to coincide with the James Joyce exhibition held at La Hune in October-November 1949. Bernard Gheerbrant had been asked by Tina Jolas, on behalf of Giorgio Joyce, the writer's son, to organize an exhibition of the books, manuscripts and personal belongings that the author of Ulysses had left in his Paris apartment when the Germans arrived. The exhibition, which featured 346 items described in the catalog, had an international impact, and moved to London's Institute of Contemporary Art in the autumn. The collection was subsequently sold en bloc to the University at Buffalo Library in New York. One of 25 copies justified and signed by the publisher (no. 16), the only ones to feature an engraving by Friedlaender. engraving by Friedlaender: A) FRIEDLAENDER Johnny. EX-LIBRIS POST-MORTEM DE JAMES JOYCE, 1949. Etching and aquatint by Johnny Friedlaender on laid paper. Sheet size: 195 x 150 mm. Subject: 135 x 90 mm. This bookplate was affixed to all the volumes belonging to James Joyce purchased by La Hune. B) GIDE André. PREFACE TO THE CATALOG JAMES JOYCE À LA HUNE. Autograph manuscript signed, July 27, 1949: in-8 (173 x 217 mm) in blue ink, on perforated laid paper, single-sided. "It's not difficult to be bold when you're young. The most beautiful audacity is that of the end of life. I admire it in Joyce as I admired it in Mallarmé, in Beethoven and in very rare artists, whose work ends in a cliff, and who present the future with the most abrupt face of their genius. face of their genius to the future, without ever revealing the insensible slope by which they reached this disconcerting altitude. André Gide." Manuscript reproduced in facsimile at the beginning of the catalog. C) ELIOT T.S. PREFACE TO THE CATALOG JAMES JOYCE À LA HUNE. Typescript signed, 1949: in-4 (255 x 210 mm), single-sided. "One of the greatest capacities of genius is the power of development. The volume of a man's work should correspond to this capacity in him: what he leaves behind should be no more or no less than what is needed to realise each definite stage of this development. [...] As with Shakespeare, his later work must but understood through the earlier, and the first through the last; it is a whole journey, not one stage of it, that assures his place among the great."
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