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Michael McClure b.1932 follow artist
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collection of books and ephemera
collection of books and ephemera
printed and bound paper, wood, glass ¼ h × 10 w × 10 d in (1 × 25 × 25 cm)
estimate: $300–500
result: $195
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Lot includes seven books by Michael McClure (Dark Brown, Gargoyle Cartoons, The Sermons of Jean Harlow and The Curses of Billy the Kid, Star, The Beard, The Mammals and The Mad Club), a framed still from McClure's performance of Liberty Crown on KQED in 1967, a collaborative book of poems and lithographs by Bruce Conner and Michael McClure, an exhibition catalog for A Land of Beatness: Photographs of North Beach Era 1960-1965, Focus Gallery, San Francisco, 4 February - 1 March 1975, a letter from Michael McClure to Natasha Nicholson, and five other items of ephemera relating to poems and plays.
provenance: Collection of Natasha Nicholson