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(TIBER PRESS.) Koch, Kenneth, Ashbery, John; et al. Permanently * The Poems * Odes * Salute. 20 screenprints in colors (each volume containing one on the cover, the title-page, and 3 hors text). 464x375 mm; 18 1/4x14 3/4 inches. 4to, original screenprinted wrappers; dust jacket of molded acetate; housed together in a buckram slipcase as issued, minor wear. fine set. each volume signed in ink by the respective artists and poets. numbered 115 of 200 on Hahnemüle paper, after an edition of 25 Roman-numbered reservered copies. New York, 1960
a new york school masterpiece and a self-chosen collaboration between writer and artist friends resulting in the quartet comprising Permanently by Kenneth Koch with prints by Alfred Leslie, Salute by James Schuyler with prints by Grace Hartigan, Odes by Frank O'Hara with prints by Michael Goldberg, and The Poems, by John Ashbery with prints by Joan Mitchell. Tiber Press was founded in New York in 1953 by master printer Floriano Vecchi and Richard Miller and specialized in dynamic colorful screenprints by the leading Abstract Expressionist artists including Stuart Davis, Charles Sheeler and Ben Shahn. This project was the Press's most significant. The poems were hand set in Walbaum-Antigua by Brüder Harmann in West Berlin and printed by them on handmade rag paper. The flat sheets were brought back to Tiber Press in New York where they were printed with the artists' work which were drawn or painted directly onto the silk screens expressly for these works.
