signed
1996 · New York
by Senghor, Leopold Sedar; Lois Mailou Jones [Artist]; John Reed [Translator]; Clive Wake [Translator]
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1996. Limited edition. Limited edition. Signed by poet Leopold Sedar Senghor and artist Lois Mailou Jones at colophon, as issued. No. 134 of 300 copies thus. Text in French and English. Folio, bound in publisher's full purple cloth lettered in gilt on front, housed in black cloth box with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a lightly rubbed slipcase. A beautiful, oversize deluxe fine press edition of poetry celebrating Africa and the Black experience, penned by the Senegalese poet and president from 1960-1980. He was a key figure in the Francophone Negritude movement. Illustrated with six original silkscreen prints by Harlem Renaissance artist Lois Mailou Jones.
(Inventory #: 140946620)
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