Item #901578 The Present Crisis. James Russell Russell.
The Present Crisis

The Present Crisis

Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon / John Henry Nash Fine Arts Press, 1941.
Limited Edition. Vellum.

Copy #127 of an unspecified limited press run.  This copy specially signed and inscribed by Nash on colophon. Designed by Dr. John Henry Nash; Production directed by Robert C. Hall; Photogravure by D. H. Murnik; Typography by Helen Angell, Virginia Bryant, James Frost, and Jean Spearow.

Written in 1845, James Russell Lowell’s poem The Present Crisis was conceived as a protest against the Mexican–American War. The title was later revived by the NAACP for its magazine launched in 1910.

Item #901578

Folio, 11-1/4 x 15", flexible vellum with gilt titles, frontis. portrait, [8] leaves, 2 blanks.

A few tiny specks of foxing on leaves, else fine.

Price: $150.00