Feb 15, 2024 - Sale 2659

Sale 2659 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
HARRY CALLAHAN.
A gorgeous custom box set containing 4 volumes of Water's Edge, each with a special-edition photograph.
With an introductory poem by A.R. Ammons and an afterword by Harry Callahan. Beautifully illustrated with photographs by Callahan of the beach and its various visitors and flora. 4tos, linen; each with Callahan's signature and edition number on the colophon; in the original matching linen-covered clamshell cases, and a matching slipcase. FIRST DELUXE EDITIONS, EACH ONE OF 200+16 NUMBERED COPIES.
(Lyme, Connecticut): Callaway Editions, Inc., 1980

WITH--One each of the 4 available prints issued with the deluxe edition: Cape Cod * Eleanor, Chicago * Cape Cod * Cape Cod. Silver prints, the images measuring 5x4 to 5⅞ square inches (12.7x10.2 to 14.9 cm.), the mounts 13½x11 inches (34.3x27.9 cm.), with Callahan's signature, the image number (I-IV) and the edition notation of 50 (I/36, II/36, III/33, and IV/34) in pencil on mount recto, and again with the title on verso, and the Callaway Editions blind stamp, on mount recto; housed in a Japanese paper folder, with the title debossed on the outside. 1949, 1972-74; printed 1980