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Lot 899
Sale 739 - Interiors
Lots Open
Feb 25, 2020
Lots Close
Feb 26, 2020
Timed Online / Chicago
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Lot Description
PFEIFFER, Werner (b. 1937). Liber Mobile: an Experimental Book. New York: The Pratt Adlib Press, 1967.
Folio (495 x 350 mm). 6 double-page sheets printed with 12 circular motifs in several colors with cutouts of various circular and rectangular shapes. (Some browning to sheet edges, a few sheets with light marginal chipping.) Loose as issued in original portfolio (joints starting, small tape repair to lower joint, internal rear flap detached). Provenance: Washington University (bookplate, shelf mark, deaccession stamp on bookplate and title-page).
FIRST TRADE EDITION, "based on a theme of typographic exploration: letters not to be read, but shapes and forms to speak their own language."
Property from the Estate of Robert C. Smith, St. Louis, Missouri

