Facing East

NY: Maecenas Press. Near Fine; Limitation page of first portfolio has toning where leather . strap was positioned.. 1970. Later Printing. Hardcover. Two elephant folios housed in original white silk-covered clamshell box with black leather closing strap and further housed in original mailing box and packing material from the publisher. Number 338 of 2,500 copies. Contains portfolios: I: Text by Michener with illustrations by Levine, including “four original lithographs, signed in the stone by the artist, were pulled on Rives paper. ” Bound in white silk-covered boards with black leather closing strap to match clamshell box. Signed by Michener and Levine on limitation page. White moire silk folding endpapers. II: Sketchbook by Jack Levine. Bound in black limp leather. Loose portfolio of 54 watercolors, gouaches, and drawings printed in phototype and pochoir processes on Ingres paper, with colors hand-brushed on each. Each illustration has its own tissue guard. Additional woodcut printed on Kawanaka Japanese vellum. Michener and Levine also signed the inside front lid of the clamshell box in black marker. ; Elephant Folio 23" tall .