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HELLER, HELEN WEST / AMERICAN ART. Migratory Urge. Introduction by Llewellyn Jones. 57 pages of woodcut plates and verse. 130x195 mm; 5 1/4x7 1/2 inches. Small 8vo, original cream wrappers with decorated woodcut cover label, extremities lightly toned, extremities chipped; owner's inked inscription from the year of publication on front endpaper. original prospectus laid in, offsetting to cover. Chicago: Franklin J. Meine, 1928
number 49 of 109 copies numbered and signed by heller.Printed on Spanish hand-made paper at the Hogarth Press, Chicago. An important early work by Heller, a pioneer of American graphic art who was not formally trained and who favored bold, abstract designs. Her success in poetry encouraged her to create Migratory Urge, a beautiful marriage of words and images.
