[Rarebooks] FS: Hiroshima with 8 original silkscreens by Jacob Lawrence

[charles agvent]

  (LAWRENCE, JACOB) HERSEY, JOHN. HIROSHIMA. New York: Limited 
Editions Club 1983. Large octavo (9-1/2" x 12-1/4") bound in full 
coal-black aniline cowhide. With a poem by Robert Penn Warren that 
serves as the preface. Illustrated with EIGHT ORIGINAL SILKSCREENS 
executed in eleven colors by the noted African-American artist Jacob 
Lawrence, now deceased. Copy #517 of 1500 SIGNED by Hersey, Warren, 
and Lawrence. A starkly beautiful book, richly bound and with three 
important signatures, destined to be one of the most collected books 
of the club. Mild foxing to the cowhide. About Fine in slipcase.   $1000
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