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It Was Always Summer (1989)

Wood Engraving
Dale DeArmond
Artist's Edition: 50
Edition of Artist Proofs: 5
Edition of Presentation Proofs: 6

Book Edition: 50

Paper type: Archival quality
Print size: 7 ½" x 9"
Image size: 4" x 5"

Hand pulled by the artist from the original end grain maple block on an Ettan etching press at Juneau, Alaska, January, 1989.

Editor's note: the book edition of this print – titled, signed, dated, and hand-pulled by DeArmond – appeared in the limited edition hardcover of THE FIRST MAN.

Illustration for the book FIRST MAN, an Eskimo folktale about Young Woman who made the first man from spruce gum and a raven's beak.

Original price: $35.00 (print edition)