Coffin ; - Full Blown
  • artists' book
  • leatherette covers
  • photocopy / xeroxed
  • comb bound
  • black-and-white
  • 36.4 x 24 cm.
  • [unpaginated]
  • edition size 3
  • signed and numbered

Coffin ; - Full Blown

[Series I]

Barbara Smith

Coffin ; - Full Blown

description

Artist's book by Barbara Smith produced between 1965 and 1966 featuring xeroxed images of a rose and a pair of hands printed on pink paper housed in clear plastic sleeves, comb bound, with embossed black leatherette covers in an edition of 3. Part of series I of Smith's Coffin series which was made between 1965 and 1967 and which totaled twenty five hand made and self-published artist's books produced with a Xerox 914 copy machine that the artist leased and experimented with.

$20,000.00
Condition:  Very Good / Fine. Titled, signed and numbered in blue pen, 1/3, and inscribed "For Stanley + Elise." Yellowing and light foxing of endpapers with some light rippling. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Light bumping of top left corner of verso.
[Object # 38502]