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Judah L. Magnes Museum and Modernism Inc., Published 2009. Hardcover, unpaged; 21 cm; limited edition of 500 copies signed and numbered by the author; illustrated with pencil drawings by the author printed over gray text panels. This is copy number 109, numbered and signed in black ink by Keats on the limitation page.
In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Blue paper over boards, lettered on front cover and spine to match the jacket; light bumping and scuffing to edges. Binding tight. A few faint spots to fore-edge; pages clean and unmarked. Plain turquoise dust jacket lettered in black and red on front panel and spine, Modernism device on rear panel; light bumping to edges, faint rubbing and soiling along lower edge. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Separate limited edition of one tale from Keats's The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six (Random House, 2009; Sophie Brody Award, 2010), a cycle of fables built on the Jewish legend of the lamed vav, the thirty-six hidden righteous whose existence justifies humanity before God. Zayin, thirteen-year-old daughter of a widowed village apothecary, takes up her father's trade in hopeful remedies and becomes a healer in spite of herself; Kirkus singled it out as one of the two standout stories of the collection. Written, illustrated and designed by Keats and issued by Modernism Inc., San Francisco, for the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, with the permission of Random House. Keats, a San Francisco conceptual artist and writer, had earlier shown Revisions (2006) and The Atheon (2008) at the Magnes.