A17122. MALLARME, STEPHANE and ELLSWORTH KELLY (lithographs). Un Coup de Des
Jamais n'Abolira le Hasard (A Throw of the Dice Never Will Abolish Chance). (54 pp.) Fine press
edition of Mallarme's great symbolist poem, illustrated with 11 original full-page black line lithographs by
Ellsworth Kelly, printed on a fine ivory Rives paper. Numbered and signed by Kelly on colophon page. The
text is printed on v�lin BFK Rives by D. Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress and hand-set in monotype
Bodoni by D. Carr and J. Perrari at Golgonooza Letter Foundry. Kelly's first illustrated book and one of the
more notable American livres d'artiste of the '90s. Folio (17 x 13 1/2 inches; 394 x 315 mm.), bound in
gold-stamped black Nigerian goatskin and contained in a black linen-covered clamshell box. Limited
edition of 300. New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1992. Mint, in mint box. LEC brochure laid in.
$3000.00
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