"THE WORLD TRIED ITS BEST TO LEAVE ME BEHIND/ IT WANTED NO TRUCK WITH ME AND MY KIND"
(MITCHELL, Dean) (MARSALIS, Wynton) ANGELOU, Maya. Music, Deep Rivers in My Soul. (New York): Limited Editions Club, (2003). Oblong folio (19 by 15 inches), original brown cloth; housed in the original matching clamshell box. $2000.
Signed limited first edition, number 20 of only 400 copies of this poem by Angelou, with six color etchings by Dean Mitchell, signed on the limitation page by Dean Mitchell, Maya Angelou and musician Wynton Marsalis.
"Mr. Mitchell is a virtual modern-day Vermeer of ordinary black people given dignity through the eloquence of his concentration and touch" (Michael Kimmelman, in the New York Times). Issued with a CD of music by Wynton Marsalis inspired by Angelou's poem; this copy is without the CD.
Fine condition, in a mildly toned slipcase.