Andy Warhol
Index Book - Soft Cover
11" x
8.25" - Cm 28x22
New York, NY: Random House. VG with all fine elements and original $4.95 price sticker - 1967. Stiff Wraps. 4to., unpaginated
Contains all 10 novelties in fine condition (except balloon)
1. Pop-up Castle is fine
2. Red accordion is fine and still squeaks!
3. Pop-up Bi-plane is fine.
4. The Chelsea Girls paper disk is fine and
still attached to the spring - not attached to page but double sided sticky ape was used so easy to fix
5. The geodesic dome “Dodecahedron” with string
is fine. (the elusive elastic rubber band
that has usually perished is still there and still works to make the dome
"pop out" ) sting not attached to dome
6. Lou Reed 45 RPM flexi-disc including a Nico
interview and music by the Velvet Underground is fine and still bound into book completely within its square (not removed) and the pop-out center hole is unpunched.
7. The large fold-out Warhol photograph of a
rainbow nose is fine.
8. Hunts tomato can pop-up is fine.
9. "FOR A BIG SURPRISE!!!" page -
Complete - All 8 are present. These are sometimes called blotters or sponges –
(Some say they symbolize acid use)
10. The Ballon is stuck between the pages as usual
Collector’s Corner:
Please see
our fascinating article on the History of Andy Warhol’s Index Book under our
website category, Movable Books History. It includes a photo of that
mysterious balloon!