Feb 21, 2019 - Sale 2499

Sale 2499 - Lot 195

Price Realized: $ 3,900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
HARRY CALLAHAN.
A gorgeous custom box set with 4 original photographs, 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 4 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, 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

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