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ONO, Yoko (b. 1933). Grapefruit. Tokyo: Wunternaum Press, 1964.
8° (141 x 138mm). (3 leaves at beginning detached.) Original cream wrappers with printed title on front cover (some staining and soiling, creasing to spine.) Provenance: Yoko Ono (gift inscription dated 1967 to:) -- Nigel Samuel and his wife Sue.
FIRST EDITION, A VERY RARE PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY YOKO ONO, in Japanese, to Nigel Samuel and his wife Sue: 'Spring o spring Why don't I fly in the sky tonight'. Nigel Samuel was the brother of Nicky Samuel, known as Nicky Weymouth. Nicky, who knew Andy Warhol and many of the other great personalities of the 60s, worked for Yoko when she was married to Tony Cox. The work contains over 150 pieces and poems divided into five categories: Music, Painting, Event, Poetry and Object; all are in English and some are translated into Japanese. Some pieces are dedicated to notable contemporaries including John Cage, Anthony Cox, Simone Morris, Nam June Paik, Isamu Noguchi and Peggy Guggenheim. ONLY 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED, at Yoko Ono's own imprint, the Wunternaum Press in Tokyo. Rare: ABPC and AE record only an unsigned copy sold at auction.
8° (141 x 138mm). (3 leaves at beginning detached.) Original cream wrappers with printed title on front cover (some staining and soiling, creasing to spine.) Provenance: Yoko Ono (gift inscription dated 1967 to:) -- Nigel Samuel and his wife Sue.
FIRST EDITION, A VERY RARE PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY YOKO ONO, in Japanese, to Nigel Samuel and his wife Sue: 'Spring o spring Why don't I fly in the sky tonight'. Nigel Samuel was the brother of Nicky Samuel, known as Nicky Weymouth. Nicky, who knew Andy Warhol and many of the other great personalities of the 60s, worked for Yoko when she was married to Tony Cox. The work contains over 150 pieces and poems divided into five categories: Music, Painting, Event, Poetry and Object; all are in English and some are translated into Japanese. Some pieces are dedicated to notable contemporaries including John Cage, Anthony Cox, Simone Morris, Nam June Paik, Isamu Noguchi and Peggy Guggenheim. ONLY 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED, at Yoko Ono's own imprint, the Wunternaum Press in Tokyo. Rare: ABPC and AE record only an unsigned copy sold at auction.
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