Description

Description: This striking broadside for Howard Norman’s book, The Owl Scatterer, features a large image of the cover art. The book is illustrated with wood engravings by Michael McCurdy and was published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1986.

14″ x 17″. Item #PR00520

Michael McCurdy (1942-2016) was an American illustrator, author, and publisher. He illustrated over 200 books in his career, including ten that he authored. McCurdy founded Penmaen Press, publisher of many high quality literary works, including first-edition poetry, fiction, and translations by leading American and European writers and poets. These writers included William Saroyan, Joyce Carol Oates, Howard Norman, William Stafford, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Eberhart, Robert Steiner, William Ferguson, and the Nobel Prize winning poet Vicente Aleixandre.

Condition: Fine condition.