Books published by publisher International Collectors Library 1944

International Collectors Library, Garden City, NY. Leatherette over Boards. No Jacket. Thomas Hart Benton (illustrator). 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No publication date. Dark green covers with (24 K gold) gilt on the front cover, spine, and top page edges. The gilt front cover design by Raphael Palacios is modeled after T. J. Cobden-Sanderson's design of the cover of The Life and Death of Jason, now in the British Museum rare book collection. Silk ribbon marker.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.[1] It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children.[2] It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre.[2][3] Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential[3] in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.

1967 hardcover, James Joyce (Finnegans Wake). In 1914, Joyce published Dubliners, a collection of fifteen short stories. In its representation of what one character calls "Dear dirty Dublin," the book is not only a picture of the city of Joyce's youth, it is also an illustration of the contrary impulses of the exiled artist. What is dear in Dublin stands in Joyce's vision alongside the dirty, and Joyce's tour of the city spares us nothing. The same "glow of a late autumn sunset" that covers green and lush walks also "cast[s] a shower of kindly golden dust on the untidy nurses and decrepit old men". Published in 1916, A Portrait of the Artist, Joyce describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of the author and an allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology, Daedalus. - Amazon