May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 126

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(NEW JERSEY PRESSES.) Bei Dao. Nightwatch: Fifteen Poems. Translated by David Hinton, Yanbing Chen with text in English and Chinese (with calligraphy by Er Tai Gao). Two beautiful color Hanga woodcuts by Bill Paden, each tipped in as frontispieces along top edges, signed and numbered xi/xx in pencil, lower margin. Small folio, bound dos à dos in linen covered boards (sides open like a letter S). roman number 11 of only 20 copies bound for collaborators, and signed by the designer/binder David Sellers, from a total edition of 40. Hopewell, NJ, Pied Oxen Printers, 1998