431 - Gunnar Kaldewey - Etel Adnan. *The Book of the Sea*. Poestenkill, New York 2010. Includes ten hand-colored plates and eleven inkjet prints based on watercolors by Gunnar A. Kaldewey. Blue suede binding in an original green leather slipcase (Thomas Zwang, Hamburg). In original slipcase with gold-embossed title on the spine and outer slipcase.

Gunnar Kaldewey - Etel Adnan. *The Book of the Sea*. Poestenkill, New York 2010. Includes ten hand-colored plates and eleven inkjet prints based on watercolors by Gunnar A. Kaldewey. Blue suede binding in an original green leather slipcase (Thomas Zwang, Hamburg). In original slipcase with gold-embossed title on the spine and outer slipcase. Call time: approx. 5:17 p.m. (schedule subject to change) Edition Kaldewey 53. — One of nine copies of the “Edition deluxe” featuring a page from the original manuscript and bound in suede (total print run: 38). - Colophon signed by the author. - The book brings together the first and last poems by the Lebanese writer and painter Etel Adnan (born 1925). The book is structured like a sample book for Arabic calligraphy. The panels, mounted as a leporello, are framed in gold; the Arabic text in Adnan’s facsimile handwriting was printed on orange pages, while the English text in thin and bold Helvetica typefaces was watercolored by Gunnar Kaldewey. From Lucius, p. 311 20.0 × 30.0 cm. [21] plates, 1 page. - Spine of the slipcase discolored. English description: With ten hand-colored plates and eleven inkjet prints based on watercolors by Gunnar A. Kaldewey. Blue buckskin ribbon in an original green leather chemise (Thomas Zwang, Hamburg). In the original chemise with a gold-embossed title on the spine and a slipcase. Kaldewey Edition 53. - One of nine copies of the “Deluxe Edition,” featuring a page from the original manuscript and bound in buckskin (total print run: 38). - The colophon is signed by the author. - “This book publishes the first and last poem to date by the polyglot writer Etel Adnan, born in 1925 in Beirut. The ‘Book of the Sea’ was written in 1951 and is printed here in Arabic, one of the poem’s original languages; the other is French. ... The Arabic text, in Adnan’s handwriting, is set on orange-colored pages; the English text—in thin and bold Helvetica typefaces—is printed using inkjet technology alongside watercolors by Kaldewey that evoke the blue sea and grow darker as the book progresses. The book is laid out like a sample book for Arabic calligraphy, with mounted plates framed by scaled-down decorations.« (By Lucius, p. 311). Spine of the slipcase discolored.