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Parables and Paradoxes

Item date(s): 1963

Claire Van Vliet  - (book artist)
Franz Kafka  - (text by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 406mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: #10/50


Place publication: Philadelphia
Publisher: The Janus Press

Additional notes:
Portfolio in chemise housed in a black drop-back box.

10 interleaved and folded signatures, each with a lithograph with a single page "On Parables".

Dedicated to Kathryn and Dan Lipke with best wishes and dated 10 October 1974. Re-purchased and sold to JMG in 2019.

The lithographs were printed by U M Grafik, Copenhagen, except for two which were printed by Desjobert in Paris.

The text has been set by Robert Franco in Monotype Bembo and printed on Rives cuve velin at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, 1963.

Ref: GB/16240



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