For My People (LEC)

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1992. CATLETT, Elizabeth; LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. A Fine Copy, Signed by the Illustrator and Author

CATLETT, Elizabeth, [illustrator]. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. WALKER, Margaret. For My People (LEC). New York: Limited Editions Club, 1992.

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CATLETT, Elizabeth, [illustrator]. WALKER, Margaret, [author]. [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB]. For My People. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1992.

Limited to 400 copies signed by Catlett and Walker on the colophon. This copy being number 295. Folio (21 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches; 550 x 464 mm). With six color lithographs by Catlett. The 400 (truncated) copies of this edition were hand-set in Monotype Albertus and printed on 300gm Arches Cover. With prospectus laid in.

Original red linen-covered boards. Front board printed in black. Housed in the original black cloth folding case, with leather cover label. Case with some minor smudging. A fine copy.

Printed on the 50th anniversary of Walker's first published work, "For My People," Catlett's lithographs illustrate Walker's poem, published in 1942, about African-American life in Chicago. Regarding Catlett's art, "Beautifully striking, singularly apt, these are pictures that, while avoiding the literal, empathically complement Margaret Walker's poem." (From the LEC newsletter, #567).

LEC Bibliography.

HBS 69336.

$4,000. (Inventory #: 69336)