BLAKE, Sarah, and Robin Kahn
BLAKE, Sarah, and Robin Kahn
[NY]: Handmaid Press, 1998. No. 70 of 75 regular copies, from a total edition of 100. Numbered and signed by both contributors to limitation page at rear. [38]pp; black leaves printed in gray; mounted color illus. Screw-bound in black cloth-backed boards, titled in gray to front. Bumping to bottom corners of the lightly rubbed boards, with mild related crease to bottom textblock corner; very good.
A collaborative artists' book "inspired by a 1917 police notice of two teenage girls who had run away from their homes" (artist's website). Poetic texts by Sarah Blake (b. 1960), author of the novels Grange House (2001), The Postmistress (2010), and The Guest Book (2019), accompanied by 14 mounted glossy color prints of original artworks by artist and writer Robin Kahn (b. 1961). OCLC locates 12 holdings.