[Rarebooks] FS: Beautiful Lois Mailou Jones Illustrated Poems of the First President of Senegal, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $1000 NET

SENGHOR, Leopold Sedar (Lois Mailou JONES). POEMS. New York: Limited 
Editions Club, 1996. Large folio (17-1/4" x 22-1/4") bound by hand in 
full purple linen by Carol Joyce of the Academy Bindery. Four poems in 
the original French and English translation printed letterpress on a 
textured Arches paper from Epinal, France, by Dan Keleher of the Wild 
Carrot Press. Copy #78 of 300 numbered copies illustrated with 6 quite 
dramatic ORIGINAL SILKSCREEN PRINTS by Lois Mailou Jones and SIGNED by 
both the African-American artist and the West African poet who was the 
first black member of the French Academy and the first president of 
Senegal, being re-elected four times. As a poet, Senghor became the 
foremost spokesman for Negritude--the literary and artistic expression 
of the black African experience. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine copy in 
slipcase of this lovely book. (#007844)        $1,500.00

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