Bern, Switzerland: (Printed by Maurice Beaudet, Paris, for) E.W. Kornfeld, 1964. First and limited edition, regular issue #1,959/2,000 numbered copies (from a total of 2,100). Large folio. Edited by Sam Francis. Text printed in black, red, blue, green, etc. Illustrated with 62 color lithographs, and numerous reproductions, on wove paper (many double-page). Text and prints loose as issued in publisher's screen-printed cloth, with designs after Roy Lichtenstein and Pierre Alechinsky; scattered light thumb soiling in margins; in original screen-printed pictorial dust-jacket designed by Machteld Appel, light wear along extremities; in original green cloth slip case. Castleman, A Century of Artist's Books, pp. 208-209

A near-fine copy of this renowned and profusely illustrated work uniting some of the mid-20th century's most prominent Pop and Abstract artists. "In the early 1960s the Chinese artist-poet Ting brought lithographic plates to artist friends of his and Sam Francis to illustrate his book of poems. Pop artists Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rosenquist, Indiana, Wesselmann, and Dine were among the twenty-eight artists who contributed lithographs. Placed side by side with those of better established European and American, mostly gestural, painters, their images seemed brighter and better suited to the jaunty typography of the pages, doubtless due to the commercial graphics that had influenced them." (Castleman)

Featuring illustrations by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Sam Francis, Alfred Leslie, Robert Indiana, Karel Appel, Joan Mitchell, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Mel Ramos, and others.