Everything That Rises Must Converge [LEC] Etchings by Benny Andrews

New York: Limited Editions Club, 2005. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB; ANDREWS, Benny. ANDREWS, Benny, [artist]. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Everything That Rises Must Converge [LEC]. Etchings by Benny Andrews New York: Limited Editions Club, 2005.

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O'CONNOR, Flannery. ANDREWS, Benny, [artist]. Everything That Rises Must Converge [LEC]. Etchings by Benny Andrews New York: Limited Editions Club, [2005].

Limited to 300 copies, signed by the artist Benny Andrews on limitation page. This being number 27. Folio (22 x 17 inches; 555 x 435 mm). With six color etchings by Benny Andrews. Peter Pettengill made the plates and (truncated) editioned the prints at his Wingate Studios in New Hampshire. With publisher's prospectus.

Bound in publisher's red Japanese linen. Black morocco label on front board, lettered in gilt. Fore-edge uncut. Housed in a red Japanese linen, velvet-lined clamshell. Clamshell with black morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. A fine copy.

"O’Connor’s shivery story set in the mid 20th century South that the celebrated artist, Benny Andrews, knew all too well. The two lived only thirty miles from one another, but worlds and worlds apart, in Georgia farm country. Why he chose this book, this author, he will tell you in his brilliant Afterword. The white O’Connor flourished within the system. Andrews, a son of black sharecroppers, flourished in spite of it. Imagine. School, for him, was permitted only when it was too wet to work the fields. High school was a four-mile walk each way. With only determination, wit, desperation and genius he cobbled together scholarships for college. His passion, vision and talent have earned a place for his art in all major New York museums, including the august Metropolitan Museum." (From the Publisher).

LEC Bibliography.

HBS 69357.

$2,500. (Inventory #: 69357)