COE, SUE; and Mariarosa Sclauzero. Narcissism and Death. 10 engravings by Coe, each signed and numbered 22/50 in pencil, lower margin, 266x184mm; 10 1/2x7 1/4 inches, sheets and hand printed from photogravure plates by Deli Sacilotto. Printing by letterpress on Rives paper by the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. 4to, cream wrappers with cream dust jacket lettered in red; publisher's red leather-edged board box stamped in gold, surface rubbing with some loss of leather, part of front cover tab missing; book and contents fine. New York: Green Carnation Press, 1983
number 22 of only 50 copies of the deluxe edition signed by sclauzero and with a presentation inscription by her to Robert Sherrard, an editor at City Lights Books, on front endpaper. She thanks him for his "kindness and sensibility," dated 11 November 1988 from New York. A powerful work by Coe, Narcissism and Death is her first illustrated book published the same year as her first work "How to Commit Suicide in South Africa."
