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
€ 25,00

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