ONE OF THE FINEST PRODUCTIONS OF THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB
LAWRENCE, Jacob. Eight Passages. New York, 1990.
A magnificent production, number 2 of only 22 exhibition copies with eight superb original multi-colored silkscreen prints by Lawrence depicting a preacher and his congregation, each print signed and numbered by Lawrence. $45,000.
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"RICHLY PACKED WITH STRANGE INFORMATION… STRIKINGLY DRAMATIC"
HURSTON, Zora Neale. Tell My Horse. Philadelphia and New York, 1938.
First edition of Hurston's major anthropological work focusing on voodoo and Caribbean folklore, vividly affirming her resolve to "tell stories that reflected the truth, as she knew it, of black people’s lives," with photographic frontispiece and 25 plates, scarce in original dust jacket, inscribed on the half title by the author in red ink: "Sincerely yours, Zora Neale Hurston." $38,500.
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“HE MADE THE FATHER OF ALL POETRY LIVE…”
HOMER. Iliad of Homer. WITH: Odyssey of Homer. London, 1715-26. Together, eleven volumes.
First folio editions of Pope’s famous illustrated translations—issued almost immediately after the quarto first editions—esteemed by Samuel Johnson as “certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen,” with frontispiece bust portrait of Homer by Vertue, in handsome contemporary calf, boasting exceptional provenance from the outstanding Loveday library and the celebrated collection of Abel E. Berland. $35,000.
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