Fine Books & Manuscripts

[TIBER PRESS – ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM] 1. ASHBERY, John. The Poems. Prints by Joan MITCHELL 2. O'HARA, Frank. Odes. Prints by Michael GOLDBERG. 3. KOCH, Kenneth. Permanently. Prints by Alfred LESLIE. 4. SCHUYLER, James. Salute. Prints by Grace HARTIGAN. New York: Tiber Press, [1960]. 4 volume set. Folio. LIMITED EDITION, number 152 of 200 copies, EACH SIGNED BY THE POET AND ARTIST on the limitation page on Hahnemüle paper. Each volume with three full-page color silkscreen prints, “hors texte”, and an additional silkscreen on the title page and upper cover. Original cloth-backed illustrated boards with publisher’s thick acetate dust jacket, cloth slipcase, original cardboard mailer. FINE. An outstanding and important post-war American artist book, featuring 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\ "