La Sicile
Catania, Italy: Orizzonti bibliofilia italiana, 1993. 54/90 (LiV/XC). Hardcover. The whole contained in a portfolio of loose signatures. VG. Item #163829
The whole is contained in a green, gilt embossed cloth portfolio with three cloth ties. Within, there are loose signatures. The first contains the Title-page, The there is a folded signature containing three hand-printed, signed original color prints by Fabio Nicola Grasso, numbered and signed in pencil. These are followed by a series of signatures, beginning with page 11 and moving forward through the end at page 66, followed by a colophon sheet. Contains 38 colored serigraphs within the text by Aldo Turiano as well as the works by Grasso.
A translation of part of the printers statement is: "...In the construction of this book, Mario Grosso has used the most sought after and effective silk-screen effects to best represent the expressiveness of the artists. In the course of so much work, Elsa Sormani, Marie Luce de Vautibault, Michèle Campagne, Concetta Centamore, Claudia Di Giacomo, and in the concrete and essential form Mario and Lina Garraffo were close to us, without whom this book would have seen no light.
Hand-rolled by Mario Grosso, Emma Cacciola and Fabio Nicola Grosso, this book was entirely made at the OBI office in Catania and finished printing on 23 November 1993. This book has 68 numbered pages and three original off-text compositions Fabio Nicola Grosso signed by the author. At the end of the run, all the plates have been destroyed, so that this edition will no longer be available, as justified below:
n. 90 specimens with Arabic numeration;
n. 90 specimens with Roman numeration;
7 specimens marked in alphabetical letters as mandatory copies;
n.13 specimens in proof of printing, out of trade, reserved for collaborators."
OCLC: 955665427
Price: $1,400.00