By One of the Greatest Poets of the Modern Age
One of Only 300 Copies Signed by Artist and Printer
From the Spiral Press - Pablo Neruda's Bestiary
Neruda, Pablo. BESTIARY / BESTIARIO A Poem by Pablo Neruda Translated by Elsa Neuberger (New York: At the Spiral Press for Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965) First Edition, LIMITED ISSUE OF ONLY 300 COPIES on Rives Mouldmade paper at the Spiral Press under the supervision of Joseph Blumenthal, hand numbered and signed by both the artist, Antonio Frasconi, and printer, Joseph Blumenthal. With a special original print as frontispiece, issued only in this limited edition format, printed from the original blocks on Goyu handmade paper and signed by artist Antonio Frasconoi. Illustrated throughout on every page with Frasconoi's impressive and bold woodcuts printed in black and orange. 4to, printer's original binding of paper-covered boards decorated with woodcuts by Frasconi printed in black and orange on both covers, backed in orange cloth lettered in black, in the original glassine and gray paper-covered slipcase with woodcut label on the upper cover. 24 leaves, unpaginated. A pristine and as new copy, even the glassine and slipcase are essentially without flaw or evidence of use. As mint, and absolutely beautiful.
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND LIMITED ISSUE WITH SIGNED ART AND A WONDERFUL AND HIGHLY LIMITED PRODUCTION of this powerful nature poem by Pablo Neruda. The great Chilean writer, whose works have been translated into many languages is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century. Neruda was accomplished in a variety of styles ranging from erotically charged love poems to surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political manifestos. In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature, a controversial award because of his political activism. Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language."
This beautiful production was overseen by Joseph Blumenthal, one of the mid-twentieth century's most accomplished printers, at his Spiral Press in New York and is signed by him and by artist Antonio Frasconi, who is especially noted for essentially reinventing the art of woodcut illustration and bringing it into the postmodern era. |
