Lot 161
  • 161

[Warhol, Andy]

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • printed book
Nash, Ogden. The Wonderful World of Fleming-Joffe.  New York: Fleming-Joffe Ltd., 1961



Folio (19 5/8 x 14 3/8 in.; 500 x 365 mm).  Photo-lithographed title and 10 photo-lighographed illustrations by Warhol, 5 of the plates with leather appliqués; title somewhat browned, 1 1/2" tear in right margin of first two plates, offsetting from leather appliqués as usual.   Stiff cardboard covers, original photo-lithographed design in colors on front cover, cloth-tape spine; some browning, some wear and creasing at head of spine, minor wear at foot of spine. 

Catalogue Note

A Warhol coloring book, with a poem by Ogden Nash.  The illustrations and the poem celebrate the beauty of the animals which Fleming-Joffe "tans into leathers."  Nash's six-line poem ends, "... modern girls at serpents scoff / And buy their skins from Fleming-Joffe."