Signed 11 Times By Andy Warhol

Warhol, Andy
Andy Warhol's Index (Book)
New York: Black Star Book for Random House, Inc., 1967. First and limited hardcover edition, #32/355 numbered copies, signed on front board by Warhol. 4to. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated with full-page photographic reproductions of the Factory by Billy Name and Nat Finkelstein, and including all ten multiples, each initialed by Warhol, including: pop-up castle; accordion noisemaker; multi-colored pop-up bi-plane; Chelsea Girls circular ad on spring (now loose); geodesic paper "balloon" on string (tabs at bottom and fore-edge now open); 45 RPM Velvet Underground record with portrait of Lou Reed (still attached); rainbow nose fold-out; Hunt's Tomato Paste can; Andy Warhol perforated tabs; gold balloon (melted and fusing two pages, as usual). Original quarter black cloth over white paper-covered boards, holographic Brillo cover label, spine stamped in silver, lightly worn; in original black cloth slip case. Caldic Collection, Artist's Books, pp. 326-327

A fantastic copy of Andy Warhol's innovative and extravagant Index Book, signed and initialed 11 times by Warhol. Published during the holiday season of 1967, Warhol's Index Book documents the wild days around his studio, The Factory, and is the first of his publications to combine text and photography. "It is not only the eyes and ears that are stimulated by this book, but all the other senses as well. A perforated and a scented sheets makes the book a functional object; the reader can literally consume ‘Index Book’. (Artist's Books, p. 326)

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