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collection of annotated books from the library of Walter Battiss

Item date(s): 1914-1980

Walter Whall Battiss (1906-1982)

Pages: 38 Titles
Size: Variable
Inscription: Signed by the artist in most cases

Type: Book

Previous reference ART 1649

Additional notes:
An example of a separate full catalogue entry: Item #1 above. See GB/30951

A Shorter Finnegans Wake Antony Burgess

Battiss, like many before him, attempted to come to grips with Finnegans Wake through this aid by Anthony Burgess. However, in this instance, his habit of annotating his books petered out halfway through the text (like many before him!)

Nevertheless Battiss used the text to develop or extend his creation of FOOK text with many interesting translations and concoctions.

He has used all the blank endpapers and overwrote others with his annotations. For example, on the title page:

A SHORTER FINNEGANS WAKE

A SHORTER ENIFF SNAG. FINIS BEGAN. awak. See Chaucer's wif wakking him oop roodly yek yek. Foonigins Wook.

by James Joyce. Jimby Jews. Jooms Joyks

edited by oodited bee

Anthony Burgess. Antoonly Bludless

FINNEGEGANS WAKE [in FOOK script]

London: Faber & Faber Limited. Undone: Feebler & Feebler

Another example of a separate full catalogue entry: See GB/30957: Matisse.

Reference note:
1 1968 A Shorter Finnegans Wake Antony Burgess

2 1952 Byzantine Mosaics Peter Meyer

3 1941 Child Art to Man Art William Johnstone

4 1979 The Complete guide to Painting and Drawing Techniques Colin Hayes

5 1966 Crete. Map / Guide Z. Mathioulakis

6 1970 Drafts and Fragments of CANTOS CX -CXVII Esra Pound

7 1914 Etching. A Practical Treatise Earl H. Reed

8 1968 Forgotten Eden. A View of the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean Athol Thomas

9 1962 Heroditus Harry Carter

10 1980 Illustrated Guide to Southern Africa Readers Digest

11 1975 Islands of the Indian Ocean Gerald Cubitt

12 1947 Journals of Andre Gide Vol 1. 1889-1913 Justin O'Brien

13 1948 Journals of Andre Gide Vol 2. 1914-1927 Justin O'Brien

14 1949 Journals of Andre Gide Vol 3. 1928-1939 Justin O'Brien

15 1951 Journals of Andre Gide Vol 4. 1939-1949 Justin O'Brien

16 1949 Museum Without Walls. Essay on the Psychology of Art Andre Malraux

17 1967 On the Greek Style George Seferis

18 1946 Paintings and Drawings of Picasso Jaime Sabartes

19 1946 Pascin Horace Brodzky

20 1940 Picasso Jean Cassou

21 1951 Picasso Christian Zervos

22 1969 Picasso and His Women Jean Crespelle

23 1948 Picasso Lithographs 1945-1948. 2 copies with different annotations Bernhard Geiser

24 1949 Picasso. An Intimate Portrait Jamie Sabartes

25 1946 Picasso: Fifty Years of his Art Alfred H Barr

26 1968 Picasso: Three hundred and forty seven Gravures Galerie Louise Leiris

27 1971 Portrait of Picasso Roland Penrose

28 1949 The Psychology of Art: The Creative Act Andre Malraux

29 1974 Rapa Nui: Easter Island Fred Picker

30 1967 Saro e' naz. An essay on live and the representation of erotic themes in ancient Iran Robert Surieu

31 1935 The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph T. E. Lawrence

32 1966 Shanga. Images of Spring. Essay on erotic elements in Japanese Art. Charles Grosbois

33 1949 Ulysses James Joyce

34 1948 Voir. Poemes, Peintures, Dessins Paul Eluard

35 1975 W. H. Auden. A Tribute Stephen Spender

36 1969 Winslow Homer Watercolours Donelson F. Hoopes

37 1932 Wood Engraving and Woodcuts Clare Leighton

38 n.d. XXth Century Drawings and Watercolours Raymond Cognait

Ref: GB/50086