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John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
the complete set of one offset lithograph, four lithographs, one woodcut, one soft-ground etching with aquatint, and one photogravure in colors, on various wove papers, 1984, each print signed and numbered by the artist in pencil, signed in pencil by the author on the foreword and by the publisher on the colophon, number 110 of 150, published by The Arion Press, San Francisco, with the title, text and colophon pages, each the full sheet, in very good condition, together with the accompanying record contained in its original sleeve and the stainless steel cannister with inset convex mirror
Overall: 1918 in. (485 mm.) (diameter)
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Including prints by: Richard Avedon, Elaine DeKooning, Willem DeKooning, Jim Dine, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, R.B. Kitaj and Larry Rivers

The record album contains a recording of the poem Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror read by John Ashbery, and an essay by Helen Vendler titled "Reading and Hearing John Ashbery's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror."

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