[Rarebooks] FS: DANTE via Seamus Heaney, Mark Strand, Jorie Graham, W.S. Merwin, Sharon Olds, Francisco Clemente, etc.

[Charles Agvent]

DANTE [HEANEY, Seamus; MERWIN, W. S; MERRILL, James; GRAHAM, Jorie.... 
DANTE'S INFERNO: TRANSLATIONS BY TWENTY CONTEMPORARY POETS with an 
original etching SIGNED by Francesco Clemente
The Ecco Press Hopewell, NJ (1993) First Edition. Folio (10-1/4" x 
13-1/4") bound in quarter black calf and red silk with a matching red 
silk slipcase by Claudia Cohen. Introduction by James Merrill. Edited by 
Daniel Halpern. One of only 125 numbered copies SIGNED in pencil by each 
of the translators and with an ORIGINAL ETCHING SIGNED by Francisco 
Clemente laid in. The translators are Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney, 
Richard Wilbur, W. S. Merwin, Amy Clampitt, Mark Strand, Robert Pinsky, 
Galway Kinnell, Cynthia Macdonald, Jorie Graham, Charles Wright, Richard 
Howard, Stanley Plumly, C. K. Williams, Susan Mitchell, Carolyn Forche, 
Alfred Corn, Sharon Olds, Deborah Digges, Robert Hass, Merrill, and 
Halpern. Beautifully printed letterpress by Michael and Winifred Bixler 
on Rives heavyweight paper. Fine in Fine slipcase, as issued.  $3500.00
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