Fine Books and Manuscripts Online

Fine Books and Manuscripts Online

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 152. BONTECOU, LEE, ILLUS. | Tony Towle. Fifth Stone, Sixth Stone. West Islip, NY: Universal Limited Art Editions, 1968.

BONTECOU, LEE, ILLUS. | Tony Towle. Fifth Stone, Sixth Stone. West Islip, NY: Universal Limited Art Editions, 1968

Lot Closed

June 21, 06:34 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

BONTECOU, LEE, ILLUS.

Tony Towle. Fifth Stone, Sixth Stone. West Islip, NY: Universal Limited Art Editions, 1968


8 bifolia, unbound as issued (19 3/4 x 13 in.; 501 x 330 mm, uncut). 6 copperplate hard-ground etchings with aquatint, each signed and numbered in pencil by Bontecou, poem signed in pencil by Towle, printed on Auvergne handmade paper; occasional very light foxing. Publisher's buckram-covered clamshell case with copperplate soft-ground etching with aquatint by Bontecou printed on upper cover. 


Copy 25 pf 33 (of a whole edition of 42) with each plate signed and numbered by Bontecou and with printed poem signed by Towle.