Author: BENET, Stephen Vincent
Title: John Brown's Body
Description: New York, Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Tall quarto (7-1/8" x 11-1/2") bound in full rough scarlet linen with blue leather labels on spine and front cover. Designed by Francis Meynell and printed by William Rudge. Introduction by Douglas Southall Freeman. One of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with oil paintings by John Steuart Curry, his last illustrations for a book, reproduced in offset lithography by Fretz Freres, Zurich, Switzerland. Issued unsigned as the artist died before publication. Ill.: John Steuart Curry. Spine just a bit sunned, much less than normal. Near Fine in a Good, partly split slipcase .

Keywords: John Steuart Curry, Modern Poetry, Fine Press, LEC, Modern Firsts John Steuart Curry Pulitzer Prize Illustrated Books Civil War Literature: American


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