Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 242

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Shahn, Ben (1898-1969) & John Berryman (1914-1972)
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, with Original Printing Blocks.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956.

Octavo, first edition with original dust jacket; [together with] thirteen type-high printing blocks used for letterpress printing the illustrations and titling in the book; three with the text (title and author), the other ten with Shahn's illustrations for the book; each illustration block an engraved zinc plate mounted on wood with tacks; sizes vary.