PHIPPS, Frances. Let Me Be Los: Codebooks for Finnegans Wake. Barrytowm: Station Hill press, 1987. First Thus. Large format paperback. 277x215mm. 211pp. Almost Fine.

Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine, though with very light fade to the spine. Frances Phipps is the pseudonym of Frances Boldereff -- correspondent, acquaintance, lover, and overall influence to Charles Olson. In Let Me Be Los Phipps has marshalled an impressive array of primary and scholarly/critical sources that provide exciting, often eccentric, but always illuminating perspectives on the complex relations between Blake and Joyce. Recognizing both the limitations and the possibilities of typography and visual illustrations, Phipps has converted these dimensions of conventional bookmaking into a veritable kaleidoscope of Egyptian iconography, explanatory diagrams, and imaginative juxtapositions of texts in an unprecedented book form.