[Rarebooks] FS: GENESIS with Original Silkscreens by Jacob Lawrence

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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED GENESIS. THE KING JAMES VERSION
LAWRENCE, Jacob)

Limited Editions Club, New York, 1989. Fine in a suede lined linen 
clamshell box with leather label. Large folio bound in full midnight 
blue Japanese cotton. Number 356 of only400 numbered copies, SIGNED on 
the colophon by Jacob Lawrence who has contributed eight original 
silkscreens to this massive (16" x 22") and truly magnificent work, one 
of the high points of the press. These silkscreens are identical, except 
for not being individually signed, to thevery few portfolios of eight 
prints currently selling for upwards of $50,000. According to the 
publisher, anywhere from 17 to 21 screens were required to bring out the 
coloring of each illustration, making a total of 144 separate stencils, 
all of which were destroyed after the strictly limited number of some 
400 original sets of prints had been achieved on thefine Whatman paper 
specified by the Osiris Printing Studio in New York. Thetext was printed 
on a heavy handmade paper from Cartiere Enrico Magnani of Pescia, Italy. 
Monthly Letter laid in. A gorgeous book. The clamshell box has a small 
area of discoloration on the front cover; the book is as new.  $8500.00
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