[Rarebooks] FS: HIROSHIMA Illustrated with 8 Original Silkscreens and SIGNED 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 African-American artist Jacob Lawrence, now 
deceased. Copy #1378 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. Fine in a Fine slipcase. (#014402) $1,500.00

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