Dickey, James and Hubert Shuptrine — Jericho: The South Beheld

Birmingham, Alabama, Oxmoor House, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. A good-looking, structurally sound exemplar of the illustrated homage that brought attention to the Tennessee artist, Hubert Shuptrine (1936-2006). The resulting collaboration of poetry and prose with artistic portraitry is quite stunning, a book to show off to visitors and savor slowly, page by page. The publisher sent Shuptrine to and throughout the South for two full years and 15,000 miles "discovering the portraying the vanishing mountain life, the back roads of old counties, the fishermen who live on the sea nad their boats . . . " (publisher blurb on rear panel). Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in oblong quarto hardcover format, bound in oatmeal cloth over boards, burgundy cloth-backed, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, clean interior, lightly toned at page edges at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, itself little worn, protected by a plastic coat that is creased a bit internally. Stated First Edition, and SIGNED by James Dickey, inscribed warmly to the previous owner, the poet and panhellene herself, Elizabeth Boleman-Herring, whose bookplate graces the first free endpaper. Laid in also is a print, "Late Afternoon," with a 1974 copyright. [14], 165, [4] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Near Fine/Very Good,