[Rarebooks] FS: CAVAFY with Photogravures by Duane Michals

Charles Agvent agvent at erols.com
Tue Jun 26 14:00:40 EDT 2007


A TRIBUTE TO CAVAFY. A SELECTION OF POEMS WITH PHOTOGRAVURES BY DUANE 
MICHALS
Limited Editions Club [New York] (2003) Large folio (13" x 18-1/2") 
handbound in full purple linen with a black leather label on the front 
cover with embossed lettering. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip 
Sherrard and illustrated with photogravures by Duane Michals. This 
beautiful bilingual edition prints Cavafy's original Greek interlinearly 
with the English translation with the text set in rare metal types and 
the pages printed by hand on Arches paper. Michals's photogravures are 
expertly printed by Jon Goodman in a process called heliograph or 
intaglio photoetching. Copy #76 of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by the 
photographer. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in slipcase, as issued.  $3500.00
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