Feb 17, 2022 - Sale 2595

Sale 2595 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
HOYEM, ANDREW. Flatland. Text by Edwin A. Abbott. 14 line drawings and 10 diecuts by Andrew Hoyem. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. Initials by Gill Shadow. Tall 8vo, 56 accordion-folded pages in an aluminum binding that sits in a metal frame with latch at top. Number 241 of 275 signed by Bradbury and Hoyem. One of the most unusual books printed by the press. The color and grey background that appear on some plates were applied by hand; some diagrams were photo-engraved, the letterpress printing and die cutting were executed on a hand-fed press, and the binding was crafted from aluminum by Q-Rolo Sheet Metal Products. The whole can be opened to a form 30-foot plane (like the plane-geometrical citizens of Flatland). San Francisco: Arion Press, 1980