Oct 21, 2021 - Sale 2583

Sale 2583 - Lot 305

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
JOHN GOSSAGE.
LAMF (LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER - 3 DAYS IN BERLIN, 1987).
A rare and extraordinary title self-published by the artist in a very limited edition, in which each example is unique. Illustrated with 26 evocative silver prints depicting views of Berlin, photographed over three days in 1987. The photographs measure 5 1/4x3 5/8 inches (13.3x9.2 cm.), and smaller, each with a numeric hand stamp on the heavy paper mounts. 8vo, gilt-lettered blue cloth in unique German newsprint dust jacket with the LAMF hand stamp; with the handwritten title and date, in pencil, on a small brown sheet mounted to the second preliminary, a uniquely stamped and annotated envelope mounted to the next page, and the final preliminary with Gossage's signature and edition notation. LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF 100 SIGNED AND NUMBERED COPIES.
(Self-published), (1987)