POEMS OF THE CARIBBEAN.
Selected and illustrated by Romare Bearden. Introduction by Joseph Brodsky Pp. xx+212, coloured frontispiece and 7 plates within pagination (6 double-page); med. 4to; pictorial linen silk-screened with a coloured illustration by Romare Bearden; within a pale grey papered slipcase, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1983. Edition limited to 2,000 numbered copies, signed by the poet and the illustrator. Bibliography 533. *With an original lithograph loosely inserted (one of 275 numbered copies), as issued. Also loosely inserted is the Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club, giving details of this publication. West Indian poet and playwright Derek Walcott received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1993. In 1971 Romare Bearden (1911-1988) became only the second black artists to receive a solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Item #183703
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