[Rarebooks] FS: Senghor's Poems with 5 ORIGINAL SILKSCREENS by LOIS MALLOU JONES, 1/300 signed

[Charles Agvent]

(JONES,  Lois  Mallou) SENGHOR, Leopold Sedar.  POEMS.  New  York:
Limited  Editions Club 1996. Large folio (17-1/4" x 22-1/4") bound  by
hand  in full purple linen by Carol Joyce of the Academy Bindery. Four
poems   in  the  original  French   and  English  translation  printed
letterpress  on  a textured Arches paper from Epinal, France,  by  Dan
Keleher  of  the  Wild Carrot Press. Copy #78 of 300  numbered  copies
illustrated  with  five quite dramatic ORIGINAL SILKSCREEN  PRINTS  by
Lois  Mallou Jones and SIGNED by both the African-American artist  and
the  West  African poet who was the first black member of  the  French
Academy  and  the  first president of Senegal, being  re-elected  four
times. As a poet, Senghor became the foremost spokesman for Negritude-
-the    literary  and  artistic  expression   of  the  black   African
experience.  Monthly  Letter  laid in. Fine copy in slipcase  of  this
lovely book.                                                  $2500.00

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