Lot no. 625
ARNE WOLF (1929-2013)
PLINY EARLE GODDARD (1869-1928)
THEY SAY !
1993
IN ENGLISH
Artist's book, accordion-folded pages (leporello).
Designed, hand-cut and letterpress printed on Rising Stonehenge by Arne Wolf.
The text is adapted from Pliny E. Goddard: Kato Texts. Publications of the University of California, Am. Arch. Eth. Vol. 5, Berkeley 1912. The Kato Indians lived in the Mendocino region of California.
This copy is no. AP4/4 in an edition of 30.
Copyright Arne Wolf 1993 Berkeley CA.
Book (unfolded) 28.5 x 21.5 x 1.5 cm
Arne Wolf - American artist, teacher and calligrapher, a key figure in the world of calligraphy and book arts in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Pliny Earle Goddard - American linguist and ethnologist known for his extensive documentation of the languages and cultures of the Athabaskan peoples of western North America.
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