A14459. HURSTON, ZORA NEALE and BETYE SAAR illus. Bookmarks in the Pages of
Life. Six short stories by Zora Neale Hurston selected and illustrated with six original full-page
serigraph prints by Betye Saar. Powerful complex collage images created in fabric and faded old
photographs have been transferred under Saar's direction to beautifully silkscreened color and sepia-toned
prints on hand-torn heavy Rosaspina paper (imbued with cinnamon bark), a paper also specially selected by
the artist. Printed at Drexel Press. A perfect match of text and visual narrative on African-American
identity. Numbered and SIGNED by Saar in the colophon. Small folio (16 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches), bound in
dark brown half leather over a special binding of paper and cinnamon bark, in a clamshell box covered in
coffee-colored raw silk with inset gilt-stamped leather spine label. Limited numbered ed. of 300. New York,
Limited Editions Club, 2000. Mint, in mint box.
Shown below are some of the images from this book:
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