Jun 15, 2023 - Sale 2641

Sale 2641 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
WHEELER, STEVE. "Hello Steve." 13 silkscreen plates including 8 color, 5 in black or white, printed on different colors of uncut wove paper; silkscreen frontispiece, endpapers, vignettes, and ornaments, all by Wheeler. Small oblong folio, publisher's 1/4 red buckram and decorated paper-covered boards with pochoir design on front cover; glassine dust jacket creased with uneven trim along edge of front flap; original card slipcase, toned with rubbing and short splits at corners. Number 103 of 513 copies, presentation copy, inscribed: "To Edward and Claire Margolies on the eve of their marriage, with best wishes from Steve Wheeler." With Arts Magazine photocopy bearing presentation inscription to "Ed" [Margolies]; 1983. Provenance: ex-collection literary scholar Edward Margolies (1925-2017), author of "The Art of Richard Wright." New York: Press Eight, 1947