Desire and Pursuit of the Whole A Romance of Modern Venice - WITH Warhol Dust Jacket
(New York): New Directions, (1953). Andy Warhol. First Thus. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. [i-iv], v-xvi, [2], 299. Introduction by A. J. A. Symons. Foreword by W. H. Auden. Bound in teal cloth with silver lettering stamped on spine. Dust jacket with light edge-wear, and light, uniform stain on front panel. (Please see photos.) Flap price of $4.00 intact. Near Fine / Very Good-. Item #12639
The allusive Warhol dust jacket illustration perfectly captures Auden's statement that the novel (first published some 40 years earlier) conveys a worldview “through the eyes of a homosexual paranoid.” By the time Warhol's illustration went into production, 1953, laws and public mores hadn't budged an iota. Dust jacket now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Price: $100.00