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ROLLER: THE PAINTINGS OF DONALD ROLLER WILSON - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED SLIPCASED HARDBOUND EDITION
(WILSON, DONALD ROLLER). Frank, Peter & Donald Roller Wilson. San Francisco & New York: Chronicle Books & Chameleon Books, 1988. First Edition 1/200 Deluxe. Oblong 4to. Cloth Over Boards, Slipcased. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 128pp, profusely illustrated in color. Published in conjunction with a 1988 touring Museum retrospective, this is a charming, substantive exhibition catalogue of more than seventy works by grand eccentric Donald Roller Wilson, who "channels" his painterly images from numerous sentient animals... A most handsome example of the uncommon 1988 deluxe numbered hardbound edition limited to two hundred copies "designed and produced by Sarah Creighton, Northampton Massachusetts, handsewn and handbound in Japanese bookbinding cloth with goldstamped leather labels and handmade imported cloth slipcase lined with Japanese art paper, with distressed pastepaper endpapers handmade by Carol Blinn, Easthampton Massachusetts" with the publisher's numbered bookplate SIGNED AND DATED by Donald Roller Wilson in the year of publication affixed to the rear free flyleaf, as issued. 0-87701-562-7 Inventory Number: 019377