CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS' BOOKS 11/09/2021 01:30 PM, Lot No. 241

SMITH, JACK. The Beautiful Book. With 19 original photographs featuring several of Warhol's 'Superstars' and other avant-garde performers including Marian Zazeela; the final print is a portrait of Smith under the Brooklyn Bridge by Ken Jacobs. Silver prints, each mounted, the images measuring 2¼ inches; 56 mm, square. 4to, original stiff wrappers with the rare variant yellow silkscreen and lettering cover design by Zazeela, front wrap with penciled price, some faint scattered soiling to wrappers, fore-edges with soft creasing. First edition, one of a planned edition of 200 copies, of which perhaps only 60 were produced.<\t>New York: Dead Language Press, 1962
Estimate: $10,000-15,000