TITLE: Death of a Salesman
SUBTITLE: Certain Private Conversations in two acts and a requiem
AUTHOR: Arthur Miller
PUBLISHER: The Limited Editions Club
PLACE: New York
YEAR: 1984
NUMBERED: 1360/1500
NO.OF PAGES: [5] - [165], blank [166], colophon [167]
BINDING: Bound by Gray Parrot. Incorporated in full rust-brown Nigerian goatskin with gilt lettering on the spine, with five tissue-guarded etchings by Leonard Baskin; the text printed by Daniel Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress, set in American and English Monotype Bulmer by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrarie at Golgonooza Letter Foundry on mould-made Cartiere Enrico Magnani paper; in a slipcase covered in grey paper with author's name in gilt on the spine.
SIZE [WITH SLIPCASE]:
Height: 28.5 cm
Width: 21.5 cm
Depth: 3.5 cm

SIGNED BY ARTHUR MILLER AND LEONARD BASKIN

With the LEC Monthly Newsletter, a single sheet folded to four pages, with one fold for mailing. Also included is an invitation: "The Limited Editions Club cordially invites you to celebrate "Death of Salesman" and to honour Arthur Miller, Monday, November 26th, nine to midnight, Oak and Chinese Rooms, Hotel Algonquin...."

Arthur Asher Miller (1915-2005) was a seminal figure in twentieth-century American theatre. In more than thirty plays - which won him a Pulitzer Prize and multiple Tony Awards - he put questioned "death and betrayal and injustice and how we are to account for this little life of ours." For nearly six decades, Miller created characters that wrestle with power conflicts, personal and social responsibility, the repercussions of past actions, and the twin poles of guilt and hope (source: The National Endowment for the Humanities, www.neh.gov, online).

Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was an artist whose works defy categorisation. Eminent in sculpting, illustration, printmaking and also as a typographer and printer, he pursued multiple art forms, all of which have, as an underlying thread, social consciousness and high regard for humanity (Source: Galerie St. Etienne). Mr Baskin founded The Gehenna Press in 1942 while at Yale University, taking inspiration from William Blake's example as both a poet and an artist/bookmaker.
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