Dahlberg Edward
The Sorrows of PRIAPUS
Codice: 35698
with drawings by BEN SHAHN.
For Sir Herbert Read - Author's Note - Typography and layout, Elaine Lustig - Drawings: 42 - Prologue - Chapter I.- XV.
- Casa editrice: New Directions
- Luogo Edizione: New York
- Anno: 1957
22,5x15 cm., legatura in piena tela, sopraccoperta con disegni, pp. 118, ampio margine laterale, prima edizione inglese, leggeri segni d'uso e tempo ai margini della sopraccoperta, interno ottimo stato.
'This is a fable and not natural history...The polestar of the writer is a legendary book, using geography, the beasts on the earth and in the sea, and voyages, as a source of maxims, mirth and an American myth...This is a book for brave readers and poets'. To illuminate the text, Ben Shahn, the great contemporary artist, has contributed forty-two drawings