Jan 29, 2019 - Sale 2497

Sale 2497 - Lot 188

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(POP ART / CONTEMPORARY ART.) Ford, Charles Henri. Spare Parts. Spare Parts. Illustrated throughout in multi-colored collage pages of poetry and imagery by Ford; illustrated endpapers. Folio, publisher's illustrated boards, edges rubbed with a little loss to spine ends, else unusually bright; original dust jacket, a touch of fraying to edges. Athens: A New View Book/ Vassily Papachrysanthou, 1966

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number 819 of 850 copies of the classic 1960s pop book. Spare Parts consists of Ford's famous "Poem Posters" which were creative, visual forms of Concrete Poetry that utilized marry Surrealist techniques like appropriated imagery and showcased Pop-inspired graphic design and printing.