[Rarebooks] FS: HIROSHIMA with EIGHT ORIGINAL SILKSCREENS by Jacob Lawrence

[Charles Agvent]

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 late African-American artist Jacob Lawrence. 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 discoloration to rear cover. Near Fine in a Fine 
slipcase. (#015662)        $1,250.00

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