Janus Press Books' Kafka Illustrations -- Collection 4
Janus Press, 1962-1975. Broadside. Item #10461
Prints. Sizes vary from 11-1/2" x 8" to 15" x 11-1/4"; but most are 12-1/2" x 10." Limited edition prints and artist's proofs. 29 lithographs and 10 relief etchings and 1 woodcut from 6 works, all housed in Janus Press-issued cloth clamshell with printed title label on the spine. Contents contained in five paper portfolios:
(1) 3 lithographs from Parables and Paradoxes (Janus Press, 1963); all denoted as artist's proofs and signed by Van Vliet on recto or verso. Minor foxing to one lithograph, else fine.
(2) 8 lithographs from Conversation with the Supplicant (Janus Press, 1971) printed by Eystein Hanche-Olsen at SKHS Oslo; all are noted to be from an edition of 20 or artist's proofs; each signed by Van Vliet. Fine.
(3) 10 lithographs labeled The Tower of Babel: An Anthology (Janus Press, 1975) printed by Eystein Hanche-Olsen at SKHS Oslo; 8 are noted to be from an edition of 20-35, as well as 2 not used in the book; also included in a woodcut by Van Vliet for this work, numbered 12/20. All are signed by Van Vliet. Fine.
(4) The balance of the illustrations for The Tower of Babel, being 9 lithographs in a folder titled: Builders of Babel: Proverbs - Geneva Bible 1560; all being signed and hand-numbered 6/20 by Van Vliet. Fine.
(5) finally, 9 relief etchings printed by Jerome Kaplan for Kafka's Der Kubelreiter / The Bucket Rider (Janus Press, 1972); all signed and hand-numbered 15/20 by Kaplan; as well as one relief etching by Van Vliet for A Country Doctor (Janus Press, 1962), signed and hand-numbered 1/8 by Van Vliet. A wonderful collection of lithographs from the artist's archive.
Price: $5,000.00