[Japan - Art and Culture] Jack Levine and James Michener - Facing East - Signed/Limited Ed. with Original Lithographs and Woodcuts

Levine, Jack and Michener, James A. FACING EAST. New York: Maecenas Press and Random House, 1970. Signed/Limited Edition of 2500. 2 Portfolios in a clamshell box (20 by 13 1/4 inches). Folded sheets and plates laid loose in portfolios; plates in the sketchbook are interleaved. Illustrations include four original lithographs printed by Bank Street Atelier, New York, original woodcuts and an "hors-texte" woodcut printed by Fequet et Baudier, Paris. The "sketchbook" comprises 54 watercolors, gouaches, and drawings printed by phototypie and pochoir processes by Daniel Jacomet, Paris./ "The 2500 de luxe portfolios of this limited edition, numbered 1 to 2500, were individually signed by the author and the artist. Portfolio I, p. [xxxiii] and [xxxv]./ The case and first portfolio are fashioned of white-silk-covered boards and fastened with wide, limp black-leather ties. The second portfolio is limp black leather.

Fine in every way and housed in the original shipping carton. 

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