BURNING BOOKS CLASSICS

Burning Books Press offers a selection of classic English and French poetry, in limited editions of 100.  Burning Books Classics are hand-cut and individually-assembled artist’s books.  Each volume of classic poetry is signed and dated by the artist upon completion

TO HIS COY MISTRESS, by Andrew Marvell

 

TO HIS COY MISTRESS

A love-struck Elizabethan poet yearns for his deliciously unapproachable love. Text by Andrew Marvell; illustrated by David Drum. 49 pages, 4.5 x 6.5. Cut paper and mixed media, boxed, with bells attached. Signed, numbered and dated by artist.  Limited Edition of 100. 
$665.00.

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LUX, by Victor Hugo

 LUX

Victor Hugo’s startling hymn to revolutionary freedom, penned in a moment of fervent hope during the French Revolution. French text by Victor Hugo. English translation and illustrations by David Drum. 26 pages, 4.5 x 6. Limited Edition of 100, signed, numbered and dated.  $495.00

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SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by W.B. Yeats

 

SAILING TO BYZANTIUM

William Butler Yeats’s bittersweet journey to the dreamy edge of history. Illustrated by David Drum. 27 pages, 5.5 x 8.5. Signed, numbered and dated by artist.

Limited Edition of 100.

$495.00

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BAD BLOOD, by Arthur Rimbaud

BAD BLOOD
Arthur Rimbaud’s harrowing prose poem of madness and despair, translated into English and illustrated by David Drum. Mixed media, 18 pages, 10 x 13, lapis lazuli, beads. Limited Edition of 100, signed and dated by artist. $345.00

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SNOWY EVENING, by Robert Frost

 

SNOWY EVENING

Robert Frost’s classic meditation on life, captured in a moment of melancholy silence on a snow-swept New England night. Illustrated by David Drum. 20 pages, 6 x 9.

Limited Edition of 100, signed, numbered, and dated by artist. $325.00

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