La nouvelle chute de l'Amérique. First limited, signed edition without the prints...
Paris: Editions du Solstice, 1992. Folio. 36 x 48.5. 113pp. Printed on unwatermarked rag paper. Sheets loose as issued in original red cloth boards and blue cloth slipcase...One of 80 signed and numbered copies, this one printed for Bruno Pons. The prints have been removed by a previous owner... This copy ideal for someone who owns any of the prints but not the actual portfolio...
RLCR 4139 (Corlett 267–276; RL 1654): ....
"The publisher Jean-Claude Meyer brought the poet Allen Ginsberg and Lichtenstein together for this collaboration. Work on the project began in 1991, and the book La Nouvelle Chute de l'Amérique [The New Fall of America] was published in 1992 by Les Éditions du Solstice, Paris. Included are eleven poems by Ginsberg..WITHOUT the ten etchings created by Lichtenstein especially for this publication. One Ginsberg poem, De Denver au Montana, Départ 27 Mai 1972, is accompanied by two etchings; two poems are unillustrated, Graffiti 12e Cabine des Pissotièrres – Aéroport de Syracuse [Graffiti 12th Cubicle Men’s Room Syracuse Airport] and Vendredi Treize [Friday the Thirteenth]. The Ginsberg text is given in both English and French (translated from the English by Gérard-G. Lemaire, Anne-Christine Taylor, Robert Cordier, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Yves Le Pellec).....
The unbound book is housed in a red cloth-covered folio cover fitted inside a blue cloth-covered slipcase. A Velin d’Arches paper folder surrounds the folio pages within the red folio. The book consists of 115 pages (not all numbered), including a title page and colophon page. Lichtenstein’s images were also published separately in an edition of forty-two suites on Japanese nacré paper....."
OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:
29581308....Contents:.......
Amérique....
Auto poésie : en cavale de Bloomington
Bayonne en entrant dans NYC....
Or automnal : arrière-saison en Nouvelle Angleterre...
Une fenêtre ouverte sur Chicago....
De nouveau au-dessus de Denver...
Passage du Nord-ouest....
Graffiti 12e cabine des pissotières-Aéroport de Syracuse...
Vendredi treize...
Hüm Bom!...
De Denver au Montana, départ 27 mai 1972...........................
Notes:
English and French on opposite pages
Translations by Gérard-G. Lemaire and Anne-Christine Taylor, except "America" (Robert Cordier and Jean-Jacques Lebel)--and "Hüm Bom" and "Denver to Montana" (Yves Le Pellec)
Consists of 25 bifolia and 10 prints. First and last leaf blank, not counted in collation; p. [3-4] blank....
Issued in white paper covers, in burgundy linen portfolio and royal blue linen slipcase, by Atelier Duval, Paris. Item #51-7261
Price: $4,500.00