POEMS — With 17 Lithographs by Willem de Kooning Poems by Frank O’Hara

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1988. Large folio, bound in full black Nigerian goatskin, housed in the original black cloth-lined clamshell box. Introductions by Riva Castleman. Limited, numbered edition of 550 copies, with de Kooning's facsimile signature in the colophon. Text printed on paper from Cartiere Enrico Magnani; the lithographs printed on Kitakata paper. This edition includes the complete suite of seventeen lithographs derived from de Kooning's charcoal drawings on Mylar sheets. The drawings were originally created in 1967 to illustrate O'Hara's poem "Ode to Willem de Kooning" in In Memory of My Feelings (MoMA, 1967), of which only three were selected for publication. For this Limited Editions Club volume, Benjamin Shiff transferred all seventeen drawings directly from the original Mylar sheets to lithographic stone, accompanying a newly selected group of O'Hara poems. Complete and in very good condition. The clamshell box shows some discoloration on the back.