[Rarebooks] FS: Walt Whitman's SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD Illustrated with photogravures and SIGNED by Aaron Siskind

[Charles Agvent]

We have recently posted on our home page and elsewhere 175 new Limited 
Editions Club acquisitions including Original Art for some of the books; 
publisher's, office, and proof copies of the books; and books still in 
their original shipping containers, as well as some high points of the 
press.  Here is an example.

WHITMAN, Walt (Aaron SISKIND). SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD. [New York]: 
Limited Editions Club, (1990). Very large, almost square quarto (15" x 
17-1/2"), bound in quarter black goatskin over green linen boards with 
goatskin fore-edge to the boards and a green leather spine label. 
Illustrated with 6 large photogravures by Aaron Siskind printed by Clary 
Nelson at the Renaissance Press on Richard De Bas paper. The photographs 
were taken not far from Siskin's home in Providence, RI "of tar poured 
into the cracks of light-colored concrete roads, forming swirls and 
curves and parallel lines, cheerful or brooding markings on a gritty 
surface that is rendered almost microscopically and enlarged into a 
striking textural background for each of the six photographs." Copy #457 
of only 550 numbered copies SIGNED by the photographer on the colophon 
page. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in a Fine slipcase. (#016611) $1,000.00

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