Warhol, Andy; and Suzie Frankfurt

Folio (17 1/4 x 11 in.; 438 x 279mm). 19 offset lithographed plates (including title) of images by Andy Warhol and recipes in calligraphic lettering by Julia Warhola, (one double-page, one handcolored), 7 raspberry-colored tissue-guards; minor stain on title. Original raspberry-colored boards; spine worn, boards faded and stained as usual.   

Susumu Ikata and "Bobby" (presentation inscription)

Manet to Hockney 130; Reading Warhol pp. 118–124, 294

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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One of less than 100 copies; this a presentation copy inscribed on the front pastedown by Warhol in a large hand in pencil, "to Bobby and Susumu. Andy Warhol."  Susumu is Susumu Ikata (see previous lot); "Bobby" has not been identified.  As with À la recherche du shoe perdu, the coloring on the first illustration, "Salade de Alf Landon," may have been done by Ikata.  The number of plates colored in each volume varies widely. "Apparently part of the edition was completely hand-colored, but most of the copies were hand-colored only in part, for the most part on the first pages (Reading Warhol).

Wild Raspberries is the last, the largest—and most exuberent—of the six self-published books Warhol issued during the 1950s. The book was exhibited at the Bodley Gallery in New York at Christmas-time, 1959.  It was enthusiastically reviewed: the New York Times judged it to be "clever frivolity" and Harper's Bazaar called the book "Noël Provincial." The title is a coy reference to Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film Wild Strawberries, which had just begun its long New York theatrical run in the summer of 1959. Warhol and Frankfurt tried to sell the book through Bloomingdale's, but sales were low.