first edition Hardcover
1957 · New York
by Dahlberg, Edward & Ben Shahn
New York: New Directions, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gilt vellum lettered in gilt. Fine in fine slipcase. Shahn, Ben. 119 pages. 27 x 18.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 8 of 150 on mould-made Arches paper, signed by Edward Dahlberg and Ben Shahn -- with a full-page lithograph by Shahn laid-in, and forty drawing in the text. The author calls this work "a fable and not natural history......the polestar of the writer is a legendary work..... (Inventory #: 19165)