May 09, 2013 - Sale 2313

Sale 2313 - Lot 261

Unsold
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(NEW YORK SCHOOL.) Koch, Kenneth; and Blaine, Nell. Nell Blaine Prints, Kenneth Koch Poems. Typography, 4 tipped-in color woodcuts, 5 illustrations, and a few decorations, by Blaine. Thin folio, stapled illustrated tan wrappers, scattered soiling; usual offsetting from mounting glue from plates, cellotape mark remnants on cover versos, gentle vertical crease along contents. New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953

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number 169 of 300 copies. This was Koch's first book. The poem "Sun Out" became the title for one of his later collections. An uncommon if delicate production and one of the earliest of the coveted Tibor de Nagy collaborative livres d'artists.