Apr 26, 2018 - Sale 2475

Sale 2475 - Lot 208

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MODERN PRESS / JAZZ.) Group of 6 limited editions from Caliban Press and others. Illustrated. 8vo, original bindings. Condition fine. Vp, vd

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Kerouac, Jack. The History of Bop. 2 altered photographic plates of Charlie Parker. Thin 8vo, wrappers. One of 200 unnumbered copies. Montclair, NJ: Caliban Press, 1993 Baraka, Amiri. Miles. Woodcut of Miles Davis by Guy Berard. Printed wrappers. One of 120 copies Signed by Baraka. Montclair, NJ: Caliban Press, 1995 Castro, Michael. The Man Who Looked into Coltrane's Horn. Print of John Coltrane by Guy Berard. Textured wrappers. One of 150 copies Signed by Castro and Berard. Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 1997 Meltzer, David. No Eyes: Lester Young. Photographic illustrations. Patterned cloth-backed illustrated boards by Earle Gray. Letter L of only 26 lettered copies Signed and with an small pen drawing by Meltzer. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 2000 Baraka, Amiri. Later Trane. Reproduced photograph of John and Alice Coltrane, original pen illustration by Baraka on colophon, and a special reissue CD of A Love Supreme by Impulse records. Contents laid into triparate printed folder with artwork by Baraka; wraparound band. Copy letter X from the deluxe limited edition of 26 lettered copies signed by Baraka. Candia, NH: John LeBow, 2003 (Archetype Press.) Brother, Can you Spare a Dime? A Typographic Performance of Songs of The Great Depression. Mounted photographic frontispiece by Alyssa Stefek. Accordion-folded sections by 16 students of Gloria Kondrup at the Art Center College of Design, each displaying lyrics from Depression era songs in creative, colorful letterpress designs. The original prospectus accompanies this lot. Loose as issued in printed brown folder with leather tie. One of only 50 copies printed. [Pasadena], 2008.