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Lot 273
Sale 6417 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Sep 10, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$10,000 -
15,000
Price Realized
$16,640
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Lot Description
[Private Press] [Arion Press] Joyce, James. Ulysses
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1988. Deluxe limited edition, #29/150 numbered copies (from a total of 175), signed by Robert Motherwell. Thick folio. 835, (3) pp. Illustrated with an etched portrait of Joyce, an etched frontispiece, and 38 etched plates, some on colored backgrounds, by Motherwell. Publisher's three-quarter white pigskin over white-flecked cobalt blue cloth, spine lettered in blue; top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed; in matching white-flecked cobalt blue cloth slip case, unevenly faded.
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Motherwell, Robert
Etchings by Robert Motherwell for Ulysses by James Joyce
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1988. Limited edition, #29/40 numbered copies (from a total of 50). Comprising one letterpress title leaf and 22 etched prints on Johannot paper, each signed and numbered by Robert Motherwell. Plates prepared by Catherine Mosley and printed by Robert Townsend. Loose as issued and laid into original printed paper wrapper; in original white-flecked cobalt blue fall-down-back box, spine faded. Original printed prospectus laid in.
With a printed booklet: The Ulysses Etchings of Robert Motherwell. 8vo. 26 pp. Original stiff printed blue wrappers.
A fine copy of this monumental deluxe edition of Joyce's Ulysses by the Arion Press, with 40 etchings by Robert Motherwell, and an additional suite of 22 prints by him.
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