(SHAHN BEN) Rilke Rainer Maria For the Sake of a Single Vers

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(SHAHN, BEN.) Rilke, Rainer Maria. For the Sake of a Single Verse. The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge. 24 lithographs by Shahn, each signed in ink. 572x451 mm; 22 1/2x17 3/4 inches (sheets), full margins. Folio, contents loose as issued in printed wrappers; 1/2 vellum gilt-pictorial clamshell box. New York: Atelier Mourlot, 1968

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number 90 of 200 copies on richard de bas from a total edition of 950. In this poignant work, Shahn elegantly evokes each line of Rilke's autobiographical prose through masterly and spare use of line and color. Prescott 113-136.