THE BRIDGE
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2017. Limited Edition. Item #7233
One of 300 copies. Original two-part blue-grey cloth box, housing a 13.5" x 50-foot scroll wound on aluminum spool with bookcloth wrapper (nestled in grey foam lining), together with the cloth-bound 20pp booklet containing Langdon Hammer's Introduction to The Bridge, with two photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge by Michael Kenna. Text was handset by Andrew Hoyem with French Elzevir type, illustrated with seven woodblock prints by Joel Shapiro. A Fine copy. An imaginative and elaborate production, re-envisioning Hart Crane's long poem inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge. The book, originally published by The Black Sun Press in 1930, was a collaborative work with Crane's friend, the photographer Walker Evans. Arion No.110.
Price: $1,850.00