Description

Large format hardcover, quarto bound in white cloth blind-stamped on cover and lettered in silver on spine, in original publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 152 pages. Small glassine envelope attached to front free end-paper containing Claes Oldenburg’s business card for The Store present. Illustrated throughout with black and white and color photographs, by Robert R. McElroy, and drawings. First edition. A selection of texts, graphic materials and photographs from the iconic studio / retail establishment / theatre that exemplified the art scene in the early 1960’s Greenwich Village in New York City. No previous ownership marks. Business card in fine condition, glassine envelope intact but sightly creased. Incidental edge-wear to dust-jacket at lower front and upper rear fore-edge’s. A clean, tight, square and unmarked copy. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket.