Sunrise is Coming After While [LEC] Poems Selected by Maya Angelou. Silkscreens by Phoebe Beasley.

HUGHES, Langston

Published by Limited Editions Club, New York, 1998

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ANGELOU, Maya, [contributor]. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Sunrise is Coming After While [LEC]. Poems Selected by Maya Angelou. Silkscreens by Phoebe Beasley. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1998. Full Description: HUGHES, Langston. ANGELOU, Maya, [contributor]. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Sunrise is Coming After While [LEC]. Poems Selected by Maya Angelou. Silkscreens by Phoebe Beasley. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1998. Limited to 300 copies, signed by Maya Angelou and the artist Phoebe Beasley on limitation page. This being number 67. Folio (20 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches; 515 x 395 mm). With an introduction and afterword by Maya Angelou and six color silkscreen prints by Phoebe Beasley. With publisher's prospectus. Bound in publisher's purple cotton cloth. Black morocco label on front board, lettered in gilt. Fore-edge uncut. Housed in a purple cotton cloth, velvet-lined clamshell. Clamshell with black morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Back of clamshell lightly sunned along top edge. Still a fine copy. "From the beginning of 'Mother to Son' Please read on, 'The Weary Blues', 'Dream Variation', 'Daybreak in Alabama', and 'I, Too'. From these glorious poems it is easy for us to see why Langston Hughes is so beloved and admired. As is Phoebe Beasley, the painter chosen by Dr. Maya Angelou to illustrate these poems with her six colorful silkscreen prints. Phoebe Beasley is the only artist whose work has twice been awarded the Presidential Seal (Bush and Clinton). Her silkscreen prints express "the love and humor that come out of Black family life" in compositions that range from "wit to subtle beauty and tenderness, at times, reflecting the influence of Picasso, Lawrence and Bearden." Dr. Angelou not only selected the poems and the artist, she also wrote the illuminating Introduction and the Afterword!" (From the Publisher). LEC Bibliography. HBS 69356. $2,000.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sunrise is Coming After While [LEC] Poems Selected by Maya Angelou. Silkscreens by Phoebe Beasley.
• Publisher: Limited Editions Club, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: ANGELOU, Maya; LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fine Printing
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Signed Limited Edition
  • Autographs