AS NO STORM
Uncommon signed copy of one of the earliest artist's books from Johanna Drucker, only her second editioned (and first obtainable) work.
Very good plus.
Price: $2,000.00
AS NO STORM
"All together in the mist and lost all done and none gone home to port not ever from that cowering party by the lackless motley group no crew."
Drucker produced this nautical book with Betsy Davids, from whom she learned to print, and lists this as "one of the best produced" of her works. The dense and rhyming tale is based on a New Year's party (gone awry) she attended with her parents in 1974-1975. According to Davids, the book had trouble finding an audience in the dominant "democratic multiple" environment of the 1970s. Priced at twenty dollars and considered by many "overproduced," Davids describes how STORM was rejected by several dealers and shows, but that the LAICA "show 'Artwords and Bookworks' proved more hospitable" (DRUCKWORKS 14). Preceded by only a few unique books and her debut work issued in just 13 copies, all of Drucker's limited editions are now scarce in the marketplace.
Read more: Johanna Drucker, "Project Statement," ArtistsBooksOnline.org; JOHANNA DRUCKER: Druckworks, 1982-2012, 40 Years of Books and Projects.
The Object
[Oakland]: Rebis Press, 1975. Full title: As No Storm, or, the Any Port Party. 8'' x 9''. Original canvas wrappers sewn with rope laced through brass grommets. With supplied plastic folder. Black-and-white pictorial title page with full-page black-and-white illustrations throughout. One of 300 unnumbered copies, from a total edition of 326. [32] pages, partially French-folded. Signed by Drucker in black ink on title page. Some soiling and faint spotting to canvas wrappers, interior a touch toned but clean.
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