Feb 17, 2022 - Sale 2595

Sale 2595 - Lot 296

Price Realized: $ 8,438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
SMITH, JACK. The Beautiful Book. With 19 original photographs featuring several of Warhol's 'Superstars' and other avant-garde performers including Marian Zazeela; the final print is a portrait of Smith under the Brooklyn Bridge by Ken Jacobs. Silver prints, each mounted, the images measuring 2 1/4 inches; 56 mm, square. 4to, original stiff wrappers with the rare variant yellow silkscreen and lettering cover design by Zazeela, front wrap with penciled price, some faint scattered soiling to wrappers, fore-edges with soft creasing. First edition, one of a planned edition of 200 copies, of which perhaps only 60 were produced. New York: Dead Language Press, 1962