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4to. shimmering grey silk-covered boards with clipped flap featuring inset stripe of gradated orange, repeating the 'Fade' image from the book itself. (10) pages, plus (vii) pages of text by Maret. Colophon at rear. Limited to 70 numbered copies signed by Russell Maret on the colophon. A fine copy. Prospectus loosely inserted. Ten Views of Florida was designed and printed by Russell Maret, and bound by Amy Borezo of Shelter Bookworks. The images were printed from linoleum cuts, metal type ornaments, and photopolymer plates on Rives BFK paper. The book's core element stems from books being banned in public schools by Florida during the 2024-2025 year. Nine books were selected: Fade, The Bluest Eye, Beyond Magenta, Rainbow High, Triangles, Tilt, Half of a Yellow Sun, Smoke, and Red Hood. Using the nine books as inspiration for his work, Maret composed nine illustrations, each incorporating a different technique when creating it. The 'tenth view' is Maret's own perception of books being banned and how it could affect society into the future. Produced for the 2024-25 Marjorie S. Coffey Library Endowment Residency at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. The book's concept and structure were inspired by materials in the Florida History / Florida Tourism Ephemera Collection in the Special and Area Studies Collections and grew to incorporate issues of book banning in the Florida Public Schools. shimmering grey silk-covered boards with clipped flap featuring inset stripe of gradated orange, repeating the 'Fade' image from the book itself.

Condition: Good. Folio. 36 x 45 cm. portfolio size. Original leather case, professionally restored. One of 45 sets on Kaiserlich Japan paper. 4pp. title, contents, and limitation page; followed by forty-four lithographs, each mounted and matted (33 x 44cm. mat size) , each signed in pencil by Struck; Struck's subjects include views in New York City, high-rises in Manhattan and Brooklyn; the Flatiron building; Grant's Tomb; the Brooklyn Bridge; the Metropolitan Opera House; the Statue of Liberty; Central Park; the Hudson River; the White House and Capitol Building in Washington, DC; the Longfellow house in Cambridge; views of Boston; Philadelphia; Chicago; Niagara Falls; Palm Beach, Florida; and Cuba; among others; OCLC Number: 714073093Hermann Struck (mit hebräischem Namen Chaim Aharon ben David; * 6. März 1876 in Berlin; ? 11. Januar 1944 in Haifa) war ein deutsch-jüdischer Zeichner, Maler, Radierer und Lithograf.