Kloss, Phillips — Gene Kloss Etchings

Santa Fe, Sunstone Press, 1981. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Terracotta cloth boards with gilt lettering. White dust jacket with BW-illustration and black lettering. 192 pp. BW illustrations. Today the name Gene Kloss, NA, is synonymous with copperplate etchings and when this book was first published by Sunstone Press in the early 80s, it quickly became a collector's item. No wonder because her limited edition prints are now becoming priceless on the art market. This 20th anniversary edition, the sole complete source of information on this outstanding artist, contains 81 black and white reproductions on 192 pages and includes a text by Gene's husband, poet and noted author Phillips Kloss. When Gene and Phillips Kloss first arrived in Taos, New Mexico, her first etching press, a sixty-pound machine, was installed at their camp in Taos Canyon by cementing it to a large rock. -Amazon. VG. Price clipped jacket has light touches of wear and toning to spine. Book is clean and unmarked.