Author: Crumb, Robert
Title: R. CRUMB: The RECORD COVER COLLECTION * Limited Edition with Book and Record
Place Published: Amsterdam
Publisher:Oog & Blik
Date Published: 1994
Description: Square octavo book, die-cut boards revealing color illustrations underneath, black cloth spine. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white. With 10" record in die-cut sleeve illustrated by R. Crumb. Not signed or numbered. From the rear colophon: "The first 150 copies of this deluxe edition are signed and numbered: 50 copies from I to L for the artist and publisher, and 100 copies from 1 to 100."A comprehensive anthology of R. Crumb's album cover artwork, accompanied by a 10" record album featuring a selection of deep cuts from Crumb's own collection of rare 78s. This book was reissued by W.W. Norton in 2011, but the original Oog & Blik hardcover from 1994, with the record included, is very uncommon.

"Robert Crumb first began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin, a fellow Haight Ashbury denizen, asked him to provide a cover for her album Cheap Thrills. It was an invitation the budding artist couldn't resist, especially since he had been fascinated with record covers – particularly for the legendary jazz, country, and old-time blues music of the 1920s and 1930s – since he was a teen. This early collaboration proved so successful that Crumb went on to draw hundreds of record covers for both new artists and largely forgotten masters. So remarkable were Crumb's artistic interpretations of these old 78 rpm singles that the art itself proved influential in their rediscovery in the 1960s and 1970s." – Amazon.com sales blurb.______________________________________________________________

A limited edition of ten hardcover catalogues is available, in addition to a few dozen softcovers. Fun reference, great keepsake, fully illustrated, chockablock with obscure facts, gags, bon mots. Softcovers are $40, deluxe hardcovers with dust jackets and limitation plates are $200. These books always go fast so don't delay. To order, contact ivan@pbagalleries.com.

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