{"id":10878,"date":"2010-01-01T16:41:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T23:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=10878"},"modified":"2021-10-01T09:16:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T16:16:38","slug":"facing-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/facing-east\/","title":{"rendered":"FACING EAST"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Levine practiced art as a weapon of social concern. Throughout his career he developed his skill as a graphic artist, and in the older media of etching, aquatint and lithography. In the late 1960’s he made numerous sketches on a trip to Japan, and from these he produced this 1970 portfolio edition with text by James A. Mitchner, who in addition to his prose was well known for his vast collection of Japanese wood block Prints.<\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong> Elephant Folio – over 24″ tall. Large Cream color clam box. #1447 in a signed & limited edition of 2500 printed copies with FOUR ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS,<\/span> and 54 tissue guarded watercolors, gouaches and drawings. SIGNED BY JAMES MICHENER AND JACK LEVINE <\/span>on the limitation page and again on the interior of the clam shell box. Black leather strap clasp torn, but present. Some wear and minor soiling to publishers box, otherwise fine. Interior fine. Highly collectible!<\/p>\n

Bookseller Inventory:<\/strong> 23667
\n\"\"<\/a>SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n

Facing East<\/strong>
\nLevine, Jack; Mitchner, James A.<\/em><\/p>\n

Publisher:<\/strong> Maecenas Press, Random House
\nPublication Date:<\/strong> 1970
\nBinding:<\/strong> Hardbound
\nBook Condition: <\/strong> Near Fine
\nSigned:<\/strong> Signed by Author(s)
\nEdition:<\/strong> First Edition, Limited & Signed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jack Levine practiced art as a weapon of social concern. Throughout his career he developed his skill as a graphic artist, and in the older media of etching, aquatint and lithography. In the late 1960’s he made numerous sketches on a trip to Japan, and from these he produced this 1970 portfolio edition with text […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10878"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15214,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions\/15214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}