Aug 22, 2024 - Sale 2677

Sale 2677 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

TOM OF FINLAND (1920-1991)


Large group of pamphlets including Kake, Jack in the Jungle, and much more.
44 items, including: The first 22 [of 26] issues of "Kake" (the first being unnumbered), in a variety of sizes and paper stocks, the first 10 issues with covers printed in green and black (apparently early editions), and most of the others in black and white Xerox (as issued?). No place, circa 1968 onward.

The 3 issues of "Jack in the Jungle," complete, with no text other than on the title pages, circa 1970s.

2 issues of "Tom of Findland Art Portfolio" (apparently by an imitator?), undated.

8 magazine-sized publications in glossy wrappers: "The Loggers"; "The Best of Tom" 1 and 2; "The Best of Tom of Finland"; "A Collection of Tom of Finland"; "The Original Tom of Finland's Circus" (2 copies); and a portfolio of 8 prints titled "Target by Tom" by Target Studios.

9 pamphlet-sized publications, some of them apparently Xerox reproductions (as issued?): "Beach Boys" 1 and 2; "The Happy Harlot"; "Sex in the Shed"; "The Rape"; "The Hitchiker"; "Tom of Finland: Recent Drawings" (1980 art exhibition announcement); and "Tom of Finland" 1 and 2.