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Lot 83
Sale 6426 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Nov 13, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$600 -
800
Lot Description
[ARTIST BOOK]. INDIANA, Robert (1928-2018) and Robert CREELEY (1926-2005). Numbers. Stuttgart and Dusseldorf: Edition Domberger and Galerie Schmela, 1968.
4to. 10 color silkscreens by Indiana. Original printed brown kraft paper wrappers (extremities toned); later folding case. Provenance: David Currey (recipient of inscription and with a typed letter of provenance). Currey had this book signed while Creeley was giving a reading at Lincoln College: "[H]ad a very good conversation with Creeley. When I gave him this book to inscribe, he said, 'Oh, you got one of those!' The inscription, I think, conveys his discomfort with the Lincoln College environment."
FIRST EDITION, one of 2,500 copies. INSCRIBED BY CREELEY on the front fly leaf: "For Dave Curry- with thanks for being here. Bob Creeley."
This lot is located in Chicago.


