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Lot 587

[FINE PRESS & LIVRE D?ARTISTE]. ?? [TIBER PRESS]. ASHBERY, ...

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[FINE PRESS & LIVRE D?ARTISTE]. ?? [TIBER PRESS]. ASHBERY, John. The Poems. Prints by Joan MITCHELL. -- KOCH, Kenneth. Permanently. Prints by Alfred LESLIE. ?? O'HARA, Frank. Odes. Prints by Michael GOLDBERG. -- SCHUYLER, James. Salute. Prints by Grace HARTIGAN. New York: Tiber Press, [1960]. 4 volumes, folio. Each volume with three full?page color silkscreen prints, ?hors texte?, and additional silkscreens on the title page and upper cover. Original publisher?s cloth backed illustrated boards with publisher?s thick acetate jacket; original slipcase and cardboard box. LIMITED EDITION, number 175 of 200 copies EACH SIGNED BY THE POET AND ARTIST on Hahnm?le paper. An outstanding and important post-war American artist book with collaborations between four of the most influential American poets of the second half of the twentieth century, and four important second-generation New York School artists. According to the prospectus (not present here), the collaborators all ?lived in New York City where they knew one another well for a number of years and followed one another's work with involved interest. Tiber Press left the choice of partners in this project to the individuals themselves, and, in collaborating, the poet and painter were acknowledging an awareness of some real relationship between their work\. A FINE COPY."