[Rarebooks] FS: Poems of Cavafy Illustrated with Photogravures and SIGNED by Duane Michals

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Thu Sep 13 14:16:42 EDT 2012


CAVAFY. A TRIBUTE TO CAVAFY. A SELECTION OF POEMS WITH PHOTOGRAVURES BY 
DUANE MICHALS. [New York]: Limited Editions Club, (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. (#013461)        $3,500.00

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