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Lot Description

TING, Walasse. One Cent Life. Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964.

Folio. 68 lithographs including examples by Andy Warhol, Sam Francis, James Rosenquist, Robert Indiana, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Pierre Alechinsky, Claes Oldenberg, Jim Dine and others. Loose as issued in original cloth-covered boards, pictorial dust jacket designed by Machteld Appel (minor losses to spine ends); original cloth slipcase (some minor rubbing). Provenance: Alma and Sam (presentation inscriptions and letter, see below).

LIMITED EDITION, number 202 of 2,000 copies. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY TING in two acrostic poems to Sam and Alma: "to Splendor Ambassador & Man from Walasse Summer 1970"; "America Lovely Mermaid Alma." Manet to Hockney 135; A Century of Artist Books pp. 208-9.

[Laid in:] Autograph letter signed ("Walasse"), to Alma and Sam. N.p., 20 July 1970. 1 page, 4to, on pink sheet. In full: "Dear Alma & Sam Thank so much for the most beautiful party in flint it is just like the Painting Raining Sunshine, I love your house, full of sunshine on hundred thousand flower garden maybe I should sending you 2 dozen lively butterflies let they fly in your house love. Enclosed a Book was published 6 years ago."

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

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