"BEAUTIFUL" (A Painted Poem)
by Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones)
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- A fine copy, with a separate colophon leaf, in the original printed publisher's envelope.
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Charleston, WV: : Parchment Gallery Graphics,, nd (1996). SIGNED first edition -. A fine copy, with a separate colophon leaf, in the original printed publisher's envelope. . Limited, signed edition. Broadside poem; a single sheet, printed on recto only, measuring 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches, containing an illustration and text by Amiri Baraka. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition of Baraka's "painted poems," this depicts an African-American man, wearing a beret, printed in soft blues, blacks, greens and browns, with the text "Don't ever be sad enough not to believe in whatever makes you beautiful." Limited to 199 numbered copies (out of a total edition of 225) each individually numbered and SIGNED by Amiri Baraka.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68636
- Title
- "BEAUTIFUL" (A Painted Poem)
- Author
- Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones)
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy, with a separate colophon leaf, in the original printed publisher's envelope.
- Publisher
- Parchment Gallery Graphics,
- Place of Publication
- Charleston, WV:
- Date Published
- nd (1996)
- Keywords
- african american, illustrated, broadsides
- Bookseller catalogs
- Broadsides: poetry;
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- ND
- no publisher's date given
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...