152 pp. Introduction by Merlin Holland; artist's note by Sandow Birk With 19 relief prints from drawings by Sandow Birk Decorative initials printed in green. olive green cloth-backed paper-covered boards with foil-stamped butterfly on cover, slipcase with paper spine label. No. 107 of 250 numbered copies from a total edition of 276, Signed by Sandow Birk at colophon, as issued. The 114th publication from Arion Press featuring incisive work by Long Beach artist Sandow Birk As in his Divine Comedy by Trillium Press, his monumental The American Qu'ran, or his series based on propaganda posters In Smog & Thunder, Birk finds contemporary resonance in texts from literary and cultural history—a perfect artist for Arion Press. Lot includes the 2018 keepsake The Model Millionaire: A Note of Admiration. “My fairy tales…are an attempt to mirror modern life in a form remote from reality—to deal with modern problems in a mode that is ideal and not imitative.” He went on to add, “They are, of course, slight and fanciful, and written, not for children, but for childlike people from eighteen to eighty!” - Oscar Wilde.
152 pp. Introduction by Merlin Holland; artist's note by Sandow Birk With 19 relief prints from drawings by Sandow Birk Decorative initials printed in green. olive green cloth-backed paper-covered boards with foil-stamped butterfly on cover, slipcase with paper spine label. No. 107 of 250 numbered copies from a total edition of 276, Signed by Sandow Birk at colophon, as issued. The 114th publication from Arion Press featuring incisive work by Long Beach artist Sandow Birk As in his Divine Comedy by Trillium Press, his monumental The American Qu'ran, or his series based on propaganda posters In Smog & Thunder, Birk finds contemporary resonance in texts from literary and cultural history—a perfect artist for Arion Press. Lot includes the 2018 keepsake The Model Millionaire: A Note of Admiration. “My fairy tales…are an attempt to mirror modern life in a form remote from reality—to deal with modern problems in a mode that is ideal and not imitative.” He went on to add, “They are, of course, slight and fanciful, and written, not for children, but for childlike people from eighteen to eighty!” - Oscar Wilde.
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