Centennial Portfolio: Fifty Original Prints by Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Celebration of its Centennial [Limited Edition, Signed with Large Self-Portrait by Kurt Vonnegut]
- SIGNED
- New York: American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1998
New York: American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1998. First Edition. Quarto (31.25cm); pale gray cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; 112pp; illus. Though not called for, this copy has been signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the half-title page, with an original hand-drawn self-portrait dated May 12, 1999. Small scuff to lower margin of copyright page, tiny smudge at mid-spine, else Fine. Housed in a custom clamshell case.
Nicely-produced volume collecting works of art by fifty Academy members. With a foreword by John Updike, including works by Kurt Vonnegut (portrait of Kilgore Trout), Paul Cadmus, Leonard Baskin, Frank O. Gehry, Jasper Johns, Wolf Kahn, Jacob Lawrence, Mary Frank, Roy Lichtenstein, Paul Resika, Richard Meier, George Segal, and others. Uncommon signed.
Nicely-produced volume collecting works of art by fifty Academy members. With a foreword by John Updike, including works by Kurt Vonnegut (portrait of Kilgore Trout), Paul Cadmus, Leonard Baskin, Frank O. Gehry, Jasper Johns, Wolf Kahn, Jacob Lawrence, Mary Frank, Roy Lichtenstein, Paul Resika, Richard Meier, George Segal, and others. Uncommon signed.