Ie4.4.03
[Finnegans wake. Selections]
The ondt and the gracehoper : a little picture book of rhymes from the pages of Finnegans wake / text by James Joyce ; collage by Dan Schiff.
First printing.
[Berkeley, Cal.] : The Wonderworker Press [i.e. the artist], November, 1997.
[36] p. : col. ill. ; 16 cm.
Text taken from pp. 418 and 419 of Finnegans wake.
15 copies printed.
The images are Xeroxed reproductions of collages of material from three sources: cut-outs of Xeroxes from J.G. Heck, The complete encyclopedia of illustration (1851); rubber stamps from the collection of Jeff Carlock stamped on paper; the artist's collection of "rave fliers" collected between 1991 and 1996.
Loose leaves inserted in slip-in photograph sleeve-book.
Donated to ECL by Nicholas Kessler in April 2018.
Bookplate of Nicholas Kessler loosely inserted.
ECL copy is number 3.
Word-processed note by the artist dated 2018, describing the work and with autograph annotation: "First printing. No. 3 of 15. November 1977 [sic]", in item file.
Joyce, James, 1882 - 1941 Finnegans wake.
Kessler, Nicholas E., 1937 - ? former owner.
Wonderworker Press publisher.
United States California Berkeley.
B46810