Dec 09, 2010 - Sale 2233

Sale 2233 - Lot 352

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
WARHOL, ANDY.
Andy Warhol's Index (Book).

With the assistance of Stephen Shore, several photographs by Nat Finkelstein and Factory Fotos by Billy Name. Illustrated with contrasty reproductions of photographs of the Factory's famous faces, interspersed with bold multiples, including pop-ups, fold-outs, a flexible LP and a graphic sling-shot. 4to, cream photo-pictorial paper over 1/4 silver-lettered black cloth with the 3-D pictorial laminated sheet on front cover, just small scattered spots of soiling; balloon disintegrated, as usual, and stuck, unusually, between the last leaf and the rear pastedown; overall a crisp, clean copy. Roth 188; Parr/Badger I 144. first hardcover edition.
New York: Random House, A Black Star Book, (1967)

Additional Details

The artist's first trade publication to use photography and text after earlier privately-printed books.