Between the Covers

Unbound. First edition. Folio. 45cm. x 34cm. Black cloth portfolio, containing a broadside and 14 pencil-signed lithographic plates by New Jersey artists. Copy number 40 of an edition limited to 250, printed by Pearl Seligman on Rives Heavyweight. Minor soil, faint stain to exterior of portfolio; contents fine. Features a broadside of Lowell's poem "Fall 1961," and 14 lithographs Signed in pencil by the following artists: Richard Anuskiewicz, Carmen Cicero, Leo Dee, Joseph Demarais, John Goodyear, James Kearns, Jacob Landau, Stefan Martin, George Ortiman, Pat Pickering, Gregorio Prestopino, Jean Schonwalter, George Segal, and Herbert Steinberg. According to the colophon, the portfolio was issued in response to "the challenge presented to the American political system by Senator Eugene J. McCarthy during the presidential campaign of 1968." A fair number of the artists represented here, including Landau, Prestopino, Segal, and the printer Pearl Seligman were neighbors of the Shahns in Roosevelt, NJ. A scarce item; *OCLC* finds only two locations (Harvard & Princeton); none others found in commerce.

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