Description Masque by John Ashbery (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Number 141 of 300 copies. Signed by author John Ashbury and illustrator Jane Freilicher. Paintings by Freilicher were transformed into multicolor wood blocks by Keiji Shinohara. Printed by hand on beautifully textured Tosa Hanga paper milled in Japan and hand-made for this edition. The Limited Editions Club Letter dedicated to this book is laid in. Fine copy in lined, clamshell case. Jane Freilicher (watercolor woodblock prints) (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Full page color woodblock prints by Jane Freilicher. Folio, 11 x 15" in clamshell box. LEC printed letter laid in. #41 of 300 copies, signed by Ashbery and Freilicher. Also signed by Freilicher on the title page. Printed on hand-made paper, the illustrations printed by Keiji Shinohara on hand-made Tosa Hanga paper. Known for his avant-garde poetry, Ashbery (b. 1927) here has written a postmodernist re-vision of a Renaissance spectacle.…

Condition: Fine. No. 132 of 300 copies. Signed by the author and artist. Folio (16 1/2"). Unpaged. 21 leaves, including the plates and colophon. Printed on handmade paper at the H. M. P. mill. Illustrated by Jane Freilicher with three full page watercolor woodblock prints produced from 30 separate blocks. Bound in full light sage cloth with cover label inlaid in rust-colored morocco. Housed in matching clamshell box with leather spine label. Prospectus laid in. No. 132 of 300 copies. Signed by the author and artist. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Layers of magic weave together characters from prehistoric goddess to Little Boy Blue and a sleeping pig! From fanciful to utterly charming and much, much more is this tale from John Ashbery. For the llustrations, Ashbery chose his friend, the artist and fellow New Yorker, Jane Freilicher. Persimmon! There it is: the color of the leather label for the book and box and for the title page and chapter headings. Look for it echoed in Freilicher s three fantastical and beautifully colored woodblock prints that build upon the themes of the story. Three colored wood block prints by Jane Freilicher. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies. Each book signed by John Ashbery and Jane Freilicher. Printed in Garamond type on handmade textured paper. The book is bound in taupe linen with a large persimmon colored leather title label, with a hinged and lined clamshell box. Printed on hand-made paper with three color illustrations by Jane Freilicher , executed using multi-color wood blocks by Keiji Shinohara. One Volume, 11" x 15-1/2". As the publisher, we unconditionally guarantee that all books are authentic and the condition is As New (NOS). Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Book designed and printed by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari at the Golgonooza Letter Foundery and Press. Handmade paper from HMP Mill and illustrated and signed by Jane Freilicher. Illustrations printed by Keiji Shinohara on handmade Tosa Hanga paper. this is #170 of 300 copies signed by Ashbery and Freilicher Book in fine condition, in a VG slipcase with a bump to one corner. Original Monthly Letter laid in Print info from 1985 Bibliography and Snyman - Grossman LEC Checklist #584. Signed.…