[Rarebooks] FS: DANTE with SIGNED Original Etching by Francesco Clemente and SIGNED by 20 translators: Merwin, Heaney, etc.

[Charles Agvent]

DANTE  [HEANEY,  Seamus; MERWIN, W. S.;  MERRILL,  James;  GRAHAM,
Jorie;  OLDS,  Sharon;  STRAND,  Mark;   et.  al.].  DANTE'S  INFERNO:
TRANSLATIONS  BY  TWENTY CONTEMPORARY POETS with an  original  etching
SIGNED  by  Francesco Clemente. Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco  Press  (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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