cloth, dust jacket
1977 · New York
by Hart, Henry
New York: Three Mountains Press, 1977. cloth, dust jacket. Equinox Cooperative Press. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 111 pages including facsimiles of Ward drawings and a bibliography of the press. With a Foreword by Lynd Ward. First edition. At the very bottom of the Great Depression in the United States, a group of young men and women in and around the book business formed a cooperative corporation dedicated to publishing works of literary significance that commercially-minded publishers were neglecting and to publishing such works in ways that enabled the graphic arts to illuminate as well as enhance an author's meaning. Such idealism usually withers as (truncated)