Apr 19, 2018 - Sale 2474

Sale 2474 - Lot 324

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?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. Silver prints, the images measuring 5x4 to 5 7/8 square inches (12.7x10.2 to 14.9 cm.), the mounts 13 1/2x11 inches (34.3x27.9 cm.), with Callahan's signature, the image number, and the edition notation of 50, in pencil, on mount recto and verso, and the Callaway Editions hand stamp, on mount recto; housed in a Japanese paper folder, with the title debossed on the outside. 1949 and 1970s; printed 1980

Additional Details

I. Cape Cod, 1972, 33/50 II. Eleanor, Chicago, 1949, 34/50 III. Cape Cod, 1973, 36/50 IV: Cape Cod, 1974, 35/50.