The Seven Deadly Sins.
New York/St. Louis/Amsterdam: Lococo • Mulder, 1991.
Price: $400.00
About the item
First edition. Frontispiece portrait of Burroughs aiming a shotgun after the photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe, and color reproductions of 7 pieces of Burroughs's shotgun art. The images are composed of woodblocks shot by the artist with a 12 gauge shotgun in February of 1991 and paintings on Mylar made by the artist in March and June of 1991. The text was written by the artist from February to July of 1991.". Small folio (31 x 22 cm.). Black cloth over boards lettered in gilt and red, and with a buckshot-riddled onlaid red wood panel on upper cover. Fine, with pictorial red endpapers & tissue guards at front & rear, as issued.
Item #300959
