[Rarebooks] FS: Ben Shahn AN ALPHABET OF CREATION, #17 of 50 with an ORIGINAL DRAWING

[Charles Agvent]

SHAHN, Ben. AN ALPHABET OF CREATION. New York: Pantheon, (1954). First 
Edition. Rough cream linen with a gilt-lettered black morocco spine 
label and large gilt-decorated black morocco label on the front cover. 
Illustrated with Hebrew letter calligraphy and designs by Ben Shahn, 
printed in brown ink, with the text in black ink. Copy #17 of 50 (of a 
total of 550 numbered copies) on Umbria hand-made paper printed at the 
Spiral Press and SIGNED by the artist. This smaller limitation of 50 
includes an ORIGINAL DRAWING SIGNED by Shahn of a Hebrew letter, in this 
case Lamedh. Slight foxing to endpapers; text and illustrations bright 
and clean. A little browning along the spine. About Fine in a Near Fine 
slipcase.

 From the colophon page: "THE ALPHABET OF CREATION is one of the legends 
from the SEFER HA-ZOHAR, or BOOK OF SPLENDOR, an ancient Gnostic work 
written in Aramaic by a thirteenth century Spanish scholar named Moses 
de Leon who presented the work, not as his own, but as mystic knowledge 
revealed many centuries earlier to the Rabbi Simeon ben Yohai. The 
present interpretation has been rather freely adapted by Ben Shahn from 
the English translation of Maurice Samuel and other sources." 
(#019773)        $2,000

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