Walker, Margaret with Elizabeth Catlett (lithographs).
For My People
Walker's best known poem -- illustrated with six original color lithographs by ELIZABETH CATLETT created to illustrate this "perfect marriage of two Afro-American women's texts."
Hand-set in Albertus typeface. Limited numbered edition of 400, book signed in the colophon by Walker and Catlett.
Folio (18 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches), boards covered in red Japanese linen, in original clamshell box covered in black cotton, with grey leather label inset front cover.
New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1992.
For My People
Walker's best known poem -- illustrated with six original color lithographs by ELIZABETH CATLETT created to illustrate this "perfect marriage of two Afro-American women's texts."
Hand-set in Albertus typeface. Limited numbered edition of 400, book signed in the colophon by Walker and Catlett.
Folio (18 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches), boards covered in red Japanese linen, in original clamshell box covered in black cotton, with grey leather label inset front cover.
New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1992.
Hurston, Zora Neale and Betye Saar illus.
Bookmarks in the Pages of Life
Six short stories by Zora Neale Hurston selected and illustrated with six original full-page serigraph prints by Betye Saar. Powerful complex collage images created in fabric and faded old photographs have been transferred under Saar's direction to beautifully silkscreened color and sepia-toned prints on hand-torn heavy Rosaspina paper (imbued with cinnamon bark), a paper also specially selected by the artist.
Printed at Drexel Press. Limited numbered ed. of 300, signed in the colophon by Saar.
Small folio (16 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches), bound in dark brown half leather over a special binding of paper and cinnamon bark, in a clamshell box covered in coffee-colored raw silk with inset gilt-stamped leather spine label. New York, Limited Editions Club, 2000.
Bookmarks in the Pages of Life
Six short stories by Zora Neale Hurston selected and illustrated with six original full-page serigraph prints by Betye Saar. Powerful complex collage images created in fabric and faded old photographs have been transferred under Saar's direction to beautifully silkscreened color and sepia-toned prints on hand-torn heavy Rosaspina paper (imbued with cinnamon bark), a paper also specially selected by the artist.
Printed at Drexel Press. Limited numbered ed. of 300, signed in the colophon by Saar.
Small folio (16 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches), bound in dark brown half leather over a special binding of paper and cinnamon bark, in a clamshell box covered in coffee-colored raw silk with inset gilt-stamped leather spine label. New York, Limited Editions Club, 2000.
Walker Art Center reading series ; 1982-1983
Twenty-One Broadsides: Poems & Prose From the 1982-1983
Walker Art Center reading series. St. Paul [Minn.] : Published by Bookslinger Editions, [1983?]
1 portfolio ([21] leaves : ill This broadside was printed at The Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger Editions on the occasion of the author's reading at Walker Art Center, October 1, 1982 - through May 3, 1983. Each broadside is signed by its author (or editor, in the case of Sappho's poem).
Twenty-One Broadsides: Poems & Prose From the 1982-1983
Walker Art Center reading series. St. Paul [Minn.] : Published by Bookslinger Editions, [1983?]
1 portfolio ([21] leaves : ill This broadside was printed at The Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger Editions on the occasion of the author's reading at Walker Art Center, October 1, 1982 - through May 3, 1983. Each broadside is signed by its author (or editor, in the case of Sappho's poem).
Carpentier, Alejo and Roberto Juarez illus.
Kingdom of This World
Translation by Harriet de Onis. Introduced by John Hersey. NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1987. Limited edition of edition of 750, signed in the colophon by artist Roberto Juarez and by John Hersey. Contains seven etchings printed chine colle. Folio, black goatskin spine and fore-edge, burgundy cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped title to spine housed in a black cloth slipcase which is slightly faded on one side. Laid-in is "The Limited Editions Club Letter," from May 1988, describing the production of this title.
Kingdom of This World
Translation by Harriet de Onis. Introduced by John Hersey. NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1987. Limited edition of edition of 750, signed in the colophon by artist Roberto Juarez and by John Hersey. Contains seven etchings printed chine colle. Folio, black goatskin spine and fore-edge, burgundy cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped title to spine housed in a black cloth slipcase which is slightly faded on one side. Laid-in is "The Limited Editions Club Letter," from May 1988, describing the production of this title.