The Gang of Eight
Arundel Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. New / No Jacket. Item #0442156
After ninteeen years travail and delay this remarkable fine press title is finished. Begun in 1984, with a title page reading 1994, this work was finally issued in 2003! This allegorical tale features Ezra Pound, his gang composed of six Modernists, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, William Butler Yeats, T. E. Hulme, Wyndham Lewis, Ford Madox Ford, and the noted American arch-criminal John Dillinger, united to steal... THE FUTURE. Illustrated with 8 stunning Photogravure Plates By Jonathan Clark interpreted from Paintings By Tom Clark. Each of these 8 prominent figures is represented by what can only be described as a monumental portrait in a dark sepia tone. The plates are hand-fet gravures printed from steel-faced copper plates, and the text was printed letterpress in three colors from handset Goudy Modern types on heavy Rives Arches paper by Jonathan Clark at the Artichoke Press, this work is a typographic and pictorial monument to the late 1920's... with a few strange changes courtesy of Tom Clark's fevered imagination. Bound by Campbell Logan Bindery, this edition is limited to 450 copies. We at Arundel Books consider this to visually be our most interesting book, and believe it has been well worth the wait.
Price: $225.00