Books published by publisher International Collectors Club

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

270 pages, International Collectors Edition with beautiful intricate gold cover design, bookmarks, nice endpapers. Classic work by Mary Mapes Dodge, a story of life in Holland. Originally published in 1865, the story is set in the Netherlands and concerns the fortunes of the impoverished Brinker family. The good deeds of the Brinker children (Hans and Gretel) help to restore their father's health and bring about their own good fortune. The plot of the novel, however, is secondary to informative details about Dutch family life and to considerable history and geography of the country, which Dodge had never visited.

This book has been called the most audacious, most brilliant, most important work of poetry ever to come out of America. It has been with us for more than a century, yet its singing phrases remain as modern as tomorrow. The poem is Leaves of Grass-Walt Whitman's masterpiece, and America's song of itself. Leaves of Grass first saw print in 1855, when its author was 36 years old. It was a slim volume, and like most books by new poets, it went all but unnoticed by the reading public. Yet within a few years, two things began to happen; the poem's reputation started to grow-and so did its physical size, as Whitman added new long passages with each succeeding edition. It its pages, Whitman sang in a strong lyrical voice of himself, his nation, and all the physical universe. At the end of the Civil War,he composed an elegy to the slain President Lincoln-poem that will live till time ends. Here is a magnificent work by a major poet-a volume you will treasure for a lifetime.