THE DOOR STANDS OPEN: CZESLAW MÍLOSZ 1911 - 2004

For the Irish Writers' Centre and made in Poland by the Book Art - Museum, 2005

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Year of publication

2005

Place of printing

Dublin and Lódz

Author

Heaney

Publishers

For the Irish Writers' Centre and made in Poland by the Book Art, Museum

Edition

FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE AND UNIQUELY DESIGNED COMMEMORATION

First edition

Yes

Description

SIGNED AND LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 246 of 250 copies SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY, 25 were not for sale. With outline portraits on the front pastedown and fly, silkscreen collage from Polish newspaper articles on linen wrap, manuscript facsimile, and signature facsimile on outermost paper case. Mixed media 8vo, in the original stainless steel boards backed in gray cloth, the steel upper board printed in black and silvery-brown. Attached to the rear board is a large folding wrapper made of heavy starched linen one side of which is silk-screened with images from Polish newspapers in the days after Mílosz's death, this housed in the original black paper folded-over case featuring Heaney's signature printed in silver. [12], 10, [10] pp., colophon printed on rear paste-down. An as mint and pristine copy, quite without flaw.