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. Copy #39 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. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Spine with typical sunning. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with a closed split at the back edge .

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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