George Macy

[2][3][4] On November 14, 2024 a complete run of Limited Editions Club publications, sold for $34,925 by Freeman's|Hindman Auction House.

[7] The 1935 publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses was illustrated with line drawings by Henri Matisse, which are almost unrelated to the text.

[11] Macy became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor after a 1948 display of his work at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

[7] In 1953 he was awarded the AIGA medal for his work as a publisher by the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

[13] At services held in Macy's memory after his death 1956 Nunnally Johnson spoke of his great love of fine and beautiful books which "more than any man in the long history of bookmaking, he caused to be fashioned exquisitely and to be brought into homes that never before could afford the unimaginable joy of possessing them.

American Institute of Graphic Arts medal awarded to George Macy in 1953.
A Soldier's Reader 1943. 751 pages. Book for soldiers to take with them in World War II