Rare Artist's Book
Quotation from Lao-Tse. Transcribed and designed by.
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1969.
Price: $150.00
About the item
First edition. A single sheet, heavy stock, cut and folded to form five panels, printed on rectos only, four folding leaves with overlapping die-cut circles. 38 cm, folded to 13 cm. Rare Artist's Book. A fine copy, in publisher's printed cardboard slipcase; the slipcase has few faint soil marks, back cover has light wear along top edge, else in very good. OCLC locates 2 holdings (Florida Atlantic and U Penn).
Item #339657
The text prints Susan Eisenson's transcription of a quotation from Loa-Tse, in five lines, "A wise man / looks into space / and does not regard the small as too little / nor the great as too big / for he knows there is no limit to dimensions."
A rare artist's book, likely published in a very small edition. Not in the Museum of Modern Art's own impressive collection of artist's books.
