American Artists. The Poems by John Ashbery, Prints by Joan Mitchell, Salute by James Schuyler, Prints by Grace Hartigan, Permanently by Kenneth Koch, Prints by Alfred Leslie, & Odes by Frank O'Hara, Prints by Michael Goldberg, 4 volumes, New York, Tiber Press, 1960, each volume with three full-page colour screenprints, colour screenprint title page and front cover by Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, Alfred Leslie, and Michael Goldberg respectively, original cloth-backed boards, a few minor marks to rear covers of 3 volumes, original acetate dust wrappers, all contained in original publisher's cloth slipcase, with original cardboard packaging (marked with limitation number), folio (sheet size 445 x 355 mm, 17.6 x 14 ins)Qty: (4)NOTESLimited edition, numbered 127 of 200 copies, each signed by author and artist. Important set of post-war American artist's books, featuring collaborations between four of the most influential American poets of the second half of the twentieth century, and four second-generation New York School painters. The collaborators all " lived in New York City where they knew one another well for a number of years and followed one another's work with involved interest. Tiber Press left the choice of partners in this project to the individuals themselves, and, in collaborating, the poet and painter were acknowledging awareness of some real relationship between their work " (from the prospectus).