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LUCK, BARBARA [poet]; LOIS JOHNSON, [illustrator]; CLAIRE VAN VLIET, [book designer] [2 titles], Night Street
Estimate:
$600 - $800
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$600
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163: Rare Books
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LUCK, BARBARA [poet]; LOIS JOHNSON, [illustrator]; CLAIRE VAN VLIET, [book designer] [2 titles]
Night Street
Vermont Janus Press 1993, No 18 of 90 copies, signed by the poet, illustrator and designer and production assistants Stephanie Westnedge and Audrey Holden. Concertina style book with attached gold portfolio cover, collage like structure of cut outs and pastedowns in various papers the pages of various shape to depict the complexity of a city. Housed in a vivid blue vinyl slipcase with title on spine. Ten poems concerning the dilemma of a young woman in the city faced with retaining her humanity without being victimized. Night Street was displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Santa Cruz Art Museum, the Print Club of Philadelphia and is also in the permanent exhibit, "Treasures of the Library of Congress" 2. How Big is Home? Poems and Images by Barbara Luck. Vermont: Janus Press 2020. No 75 of 120 copies. 71p, images on 9 leaves, some fldg. 255mm, Hand made paper wrappers, sewn with colour thread, in custom slip case.
Library of Elizabeth Steiner.
Night Street
Vermont Janus Press 1993, No 18 of 90 copies, signed by the poet, illustrator and designer and production assistants Stephanie Westnedge and Audrey Holden. Concertina style book with attached gold portfolio cover, collage like structure of cut outs and pastedowns in various papers the pages of various shape to depict the complexity of a city. Housed in a vivid blue vinyl slipcase with title on spine. Ten poems concerning the dilemma of a young woman in the city faced with retaining her humanity without being victimized. Night Street was displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Santa Cruz Art Museum, the Print Club of Philadelphia and is also in the permanent exhibit, "Treasures of the Library of Congress" 2. How Big is Home? Poems and Images by Barbara Luck. Vermont: Janus Press 2020. No 75 of 120 copies. 71p, images on 9 leaves, some fldg. 255mm, Hand made paper wrappers, sewn with colour thread, in custom slip case.
Library of Elizabeth Steiner.