Search Results: Authors starting with H from The Limited Editions Club

Atop the North Face lies the gigantic "White Spider," a formidable formation of perpetual ice and snow. It is the configuration, not Eiger's height, that makes the mountain such an appalling challenge. "From that perpetual, fearfully steep field of frozen snow nothing but ice emerges to fill gullies, cracks, and crevices," writes Harrer, who, with three companions in 1938, became the first to climb the Eiger's North Face, from the base to the top. For this edition Harrer chose six of his personal photographs and revised his original 1960 version. Six photogravures and Epilogue by Heinrich Harrer.Edition limited to 300 numbered copies.Each book signed by Heinrich Harrer.Inset into the front cover, minute granules, scraped from the icy rock surface of the Eiger, form the profile of the mountain; the spine a gray Nigerian goatskin. The book is set into a hinged black linen covered box lined with ultrasuede. The author's photographs have been made into photogravures and printed on mould made paper… Read More

"Mother to Son", "The Weary Blues", "Dream Variation", "Daybreak in Alabama" and "I, Too". From these glorious poems it is easy for us to see why Langston Hughes is so beloved and admired.As is Phoebe Beasley, the painter chosen by Dr. Maya Angelou to illustrate these poems with her six colorful silkscreen prints. Phoebe Beasley is the only artist whose work has twice been awarded the Presidential Seal (Bush and Clinton). Her silkscreen prints express "the love and humor that come out of Black family life" in compositions that range from "wit to subtle beauty and tenderness, at times, reflecting the influence of Picasso, Lawrence and Bearden." Dr. Angelou not only selected the poems and the artist, she also wrote the illuminating Introduction and the Afterword!Six color silkscreen prints by Phoebe Beasley.Introduction and Afterword by Maya Angelou.Edition limited to 300 numbered copies.Each book signed by Maya Angelou and Phoebe Beasley.The binding is purple cotton and the book and prints come a… Read More