Jess Illustrator Michael Mcclure Text (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited edition numbered 18 of 100 copies. Clocking in at just under 14 inches tall, this fan-fold folio is an ink-jet printed facsimile of a unique book created by Jess in 1957, bearing hand lettered text, originally accomplished in crayon, ink, etc., in a spiral notebook. Jess and his partner, poet Robert Duncan, often worked on projects like this after dinner for their own amusement, and spent time with beat poet Michael McClure, who is thought to have written this story ca. 1956 or 1957. Arion Press dutifully and beautifully reproduced the item in a fan-fold format to facilitate display. It is printed on thick Moab Entrada rag paper stock, outer boards in purple cloth, with pictorial paper labels at both front and rear boards, housed in a matching purple cloth box with a small text label, and a slot for an accompanying booklet inside the lid (a fine book in a near fine box with an abrasion to the paper label and a hint of rubbing box edges). Personal note: I've had several of the Arion books, and of them, this is my favorite.