BEN SHAHN For the Sake of a Single Verse by Rainer M. Rilke.
Portfolio with complete text, 23 lithographs (some printed in colors) and lithograph headpiece, 1968. 570x450 mm; 22 1/2x17 3/4 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.
One of 200 numbered deluxe copies on Richard de Bas, of a total edition of 950. Signed in red ink and numbered 53 in pencil, on the justification page. Each print signed in red ink, lower margin. Printed by Mourlot, New York. Published by Touchstone, New York.
Original beige linen portfolio. Portfolio case very worn, splitting and waterstained; internally the prints and text in good condition. Prescott 113-136.
