May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 184

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
SIGNED BY THE DESIGNER WARHOL, ANDY. Andy Warhol's Index Book. Illustrated with photographic plates, multiples, and pop-ups, all in working order except for balloon page (deflated as usual). 4to, silver-lettered black cloth over boards with original 3-D pictorial laminated sheet on front cover; some mild separation between gatherings as is common; publisher's original plastic bag, lettered in purple and with price sticker, opened at bottom, scattered wear, but cover with text complete. New York, 1967
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first edition in the scarce original packaging, inscribed and signed by famed pop-up designer waldo (wally) hunt on title-page. Hunt is given credit for the revival and renaissance of the pop-up and moveable book genre. The Index Book was among his most famous creations, along with The Human Body, by Jonathan Miller and David Pelham (Viking Press, 1983), featuring movable internal organs; The Honeybee and the Robber (Philomel, 1981), a moving picture book by Eric Carle; Jan Pienkowski's 'Haunted House' (Heinemann, 1979), which received the Kate Greenaway Medal, a prestigious British prize for children's book illustration, and the pop-up version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Scholastic, 2002). Tipped into this volume is an Autograph Note Signed by Hunt (to same person as inscription), mentioning that he took this copy of the Warhol book to a Harry Potter presentation.