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Tristram Shandy

Item date(s): 1988

Laurence Sterne
John Baldessari  - (illustrated by)
Melvyn New  - (essay by)


Pages: 620pp + 42pp
Size: 266mm
Inscription: signed by the illustrator.
Edition: One of 400 copies


Place publication: San Francisco, CA
Publisher: The Arion Press

Additional notes:
Three volumes in single green slipcase.

First published in 1760.

1. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. 620pp.

2. Lawrence Stern and Tristram Shandy by Melvyn New. 42pp.

3. Photo-collages for Tristram Shandy by John Baldessari (with quotations from the novel). Unpaged.

Including the prospectus: ME

See page 216 for the marbled page and pages 37 and 38 for the black pages.

See Bonhams auction catalogue 15/12/2009, Lot 5005.

Illustrated as item 124 in Artists & Books 1900-Present. Ursus Books, New York, 2014.

Ref: GB/12214



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