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Nile. Papers of River Muds, 1991
13153-BK
12 1/8 x 9 in. (31 x 23 cm)
Folio, publisher's parchment-backed handmade paper-covered boards, red titling to front cover and spine; publisher's single sheet on handmade paper using pulp mixed with mud from the Murrumbidgee River in Australia laid in (numbered 76/172 on blank verso); original parchment-edged paper covered slipcase. Number 76 of 88 copies signed by the artist. The paper used in production was pulp mixed with mud from rivers around the world, producing pages in different shades of brown, from the following rivers: Nile, Umpqua, Hudson, Murrumbidgee, Mississippi, Indragoodby, Jordan, Condamine, Avon, Chitravathri, Amazon, Rhine, Guatiquia and Huang He, first sheet of each example titled in red with the respective river's name. Santa Monica: Lapis Press,
Nile (Papers of River Muds) is a limited-edition book printed by the Lapis Press, Los Angeles. It is usually displayed with its pages open for view next to its slipcase. The slipcase is made with grey hand-made paper with vellum-like edges, and the title NILE | RICHARD LONG is printed centrally in red letterpress. The cover of the book is made with orange-brown, hand-made paper and has a spine made from a vellum-like material. The name of the river UMPQUA in Oregon, USA, is printed centrally in red capital letters. RICHARD LONG is printed in red capital letters on the spine. The hand-bound pages of the book are made of heavy hand-made paper in various shades of brown, their edges left uncut, or ‘deckle-edged’, following the paper-making process. The names of several rivers from around the world are printed on separate pages in red.
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Richard Long
Dust, Doboros, Desert Flowers, 1987
13151-BK
12 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (31.1 x 31.1 cm)
Hardcover, paper, includes a 45 RPM record mounted inside back cover, all inserted inside linen covered slipcase (color reproductions). The pigments used for the etchings in this book were gathered by the editor and the artist in Death Valley, CA, in the spring of 1982. The archive has another coy of this record. Edition of 35.
7 etchings using pigments gathered from Death Valley. Square 4to, publisher's black cloth lettered in white; 45 RPM record (“A Round of Desert Flowers†side A) in sleeve mounted to rear pastedown, as issued; original matching slipcase. Signed by the artist. Los Angeles: The Lapis Press
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Richard Long
Dust, Doboros, Desert Flowers, 1987
1663
Hardcover, paper, includes a 45 RPM record mounted inside back cover, all inserted inside linen covered slipcase (color repros). The pigments used for the etchings in this book were gathered by the editor and the artist in Death Valley in the spring of 1982. The archive has another coy of this record.
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Richard Long
Mud Hand Prints, 1984
13152-BK
13 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (34.3 x 28.6 cm)
London. Coracle Press. [4 unnumbered leaves + guard-leaf]. Small folio. Leaf with title, leaf with left handprint verso, guard-leaf, leaf with right hand print recto, final leaf with colophon verso. Original publisher's green cloth with title to front board in black.
From the edition limited to 100 copies.
"The artist arrived in the premises of the Coracle Press with a bucket of mud from the River Avon carefully mixed to the desired consistency; having made prints of his hands in each of the 100 books, already bound, he threw the remaining mud down the stairwell walls, where the artists who have worked with the Press have all left evidence of their work. Time alone will tell whether the prints created by artist and river will last as long as the preserved image of hands ... made by Paleolithic (Magdalenian) man to be found in caves from the Périgord to the Pyrenees and Northern Spain." [Ref. From Manet to Hockney: Modern Artists’ Illustrated Books (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983, p. 167].
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