[Rarebooks] FS: HIROSHIMA, Signed by John Hersey, Robert Penn Warren, and Jacob Lawrence with 8 Original Silkscreens by Lawrence

[Charles Agvent]

  Price reduced:  Was  $2000.00   Now  $1500.00

1. HERSEY, John (Jacob LAWRENCE). HIROSHIMA. New York: Limited Editions 
Club, 1983. Large octavo (9-1/2" x 12-1/4") bound in full coal-black 
aniline cowhide. With a poem by Robert Penn Warren that serves as the 
preface. Illustrated with EIGHT ORIGINAL SILKSCREENS executed in eleven 
colors by the noted African-American artist Jacob Lawrence, now 
deceased. Copy #37 of 1500 SIGNED by Hersey, Warren, and Lawrence. A 
starkly beautiful book, richly bound and with three important 
signatures, justly one of the most desirable books issued by this 
long-lived, prestigious press. Monthly Letter, invitation to a reception 
in honor of the collaboration, and the Note on the care of the book laid 
in. Several scratches to the leather, difficult to avoid with this 
binding. About Fine in slipcase. $1,500.00

Not yet listed on the net:

2. HERSEY, John (Jacob LAWRENCE). HIROSHIMA. New York: Limited Editions 
Club, 1983. Large octavo (9-1/2" x 12-1/4") bound in full coal-black 
aniline cowhide. With a poem by Robert Penn Warren that serves as the 
preface. Illustrated with EIGHT ORIGINAL SILKSCREENS executed in eleven 
colors by the noted African-American artist Jacob Lawrence, now 
deceased. Copy #1249 of 1500 SIGNED by Hersey, Warren, and Lawrence. A 
starkly beautiful book, richly bound and with three important 
signatures, justly one of the most desirable books issued by this 
long-lived, prestigious press. Monthly Letter and Note on the care of 
the book laid in. Spine sunned; some faint spotting to rear cover. Near 
Fine in slipcase. $1,250.00

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