WARHOL, ANDY. A Gold Book. 19 offset lithographs, 14 on gold paper, the rest on white wove paper, including 4 plates watercolored by hand. 380x300 mm; 15x11 3/4 inches. Thin folio, bound as issued in the white cloth boards, scattered but visible light discoloration; hinges cracked or starting with threads becoming loose. [New York, 1957]
inscribed and signed by warhol on rear cover "to Bob / Andy Warhol" ink black ink. First regular edition after the limited edition of 100 copies. In the early 1960s, the Champion Paper Company hired advertising firm Campbell Ewald to launch an a campaign called "Face to Face" where photographers would shoot images of illustrators and illustrators would draw the photographers. Robert Hungerford was the campaign's creative director and commissioned Warhol, along with Gordon Parks and Austin Briggs among others, for the project. Warhol inscribed this copy as a gift of thanks to Hungerford. Feldman & Schellman 106-124.
