Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(JANUS PRESS.) Schumann, Elka. The Dream of the Dirty Woman. French and English text printed in Franklin Gothic and Trump Mediaeval type. Relief prints by Claire Van Vliet on handmade paper. Large grey accordion-folded folio; laid into original pictorial silk-screened clamshell case with book launch advertisement and an LP recording of the performance by the Bread and Puppet Theater. Newark, Vt., 1980

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printed specially for subscriber andrew hedden from an edition of only forty copies for patrons, participants, and organizations involved in the project. The total edition of the volume was 85 copies though the album was pressed in an edition of 1000. A surreal one-act play based on a dream by Schumann about a woman who escapes from the Bastille during the French Revolution.