Joel Shapiro Illustrator (1 results)

Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Limited edition. One of 326 copies, signed by artist Joel Shapiro at colophon. Scroll measuring 13½"x50", comprised of glued sheets of handmade paper from China's Red Star Paper Company printed by letterpress, wound on aluminum spool with book cloth wrapper, housed in a custom steel blue cloth-covered box with foil-stamped lettering on cover. With seven woodblock prints by Shapiro. Accompanied by a booklet with a new essay on the poem by Langdon Hammer and with two photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge by Michael Kenna. Handset by Andrew Hoyem. Fine with a hint of rubbing to bottom corner of case lid. A truly elegant Arion Press printing of Crane's most notable long poem about the Brooklyn Bridge, which is also for sale if anybody's asking.…