Call & Response

The Call: Portrait of the Artist — Cheryl

This is probably the most expensive book we own. It is a slipcased copy of James Joyce’s classic, published in 1968 for members of The Limited Editions Club. In 1994, I purchased it for Dennis as a wedding gift, paying $125 for it. It is copy no. 417 and is signed by Brian Keogh, the artist who illustrated the text.

“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The Response: Toys — Jessica

Some of the toys that we have bought for the children over the years were rather expensive. Or so I thought at the time. But now — four, five or in some cases, six children later, they rather seem like a bargin!