May Stevens, Patricia Hills, Pomegranate Communications, 2005, HC, NF.

Hills, Patricia. London, Pomegranate Communications, 2005. 

English, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 9 1/2" x 12 1/4", 160 pp.

ISBN: 076493323X

Sage green cloth over board, stamped black lettering to spine, superior copy inside and out, with only the most minimal, unobtrusive wear to bindings, text-block, and endpapers. Very Good pictorial dust jacket, featuring May Stevens' 1988-89 artwork "Green Field" to front, 1970 artwork "Big Daddy Paper Doll" to back, white lettering to front, spine, and interior flaps, black lettering to back, minor wear to edges and tips, small closed tears to bottom tips, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar-sleeve. [8] 160 pp., replete with black-and-white photographs, full-color images, Preface, endpapers feature detail of May Stevens' 2002 artwork "Oxbow, Napa River", an Appreciation "Writing on Water" by Phyllis Rose, May Stevens: In Conversation, May Stevens: The Dialectics of Representation, the Praxis of Painting, Chronology, Selected Bibliography, Exhibition History, and Index. From inside dust jacket: "Patricia Hills' illustrated, intimate conversation with May Stevens gives us an in-depth look at an extraordinary artist, poet, teacher, and activist."