First Edition. A large-format edition of the Qur'an (Koran) handlettered and illustrated with modern American scenes by the artist Sandow Birk. xvii, 443 pages. 16-1/4 by 12-1/4 inches. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine hardcover copy (no jacket, as issued) with the original shrinkwrap around.....
Price: $150
First Edition. A signed copy of the first edition of this exhibition catalog for a show of Birk's works held at the Laguna Art Museum in 2000. Birk's paintings are a mashup of historical tropes and modern figures, here posed in scenes from an imagined civil war in California. This.....
Price: $100
First Edition. The numbered edition (100 copies) of Sandow Birk's Divine Comedy, complete in three volumes, with more than 100 signed lithographs bound in, as issued. The artist translated the text with Marcus Sanders and illustrated it after Gustave Doré's well-known 19th century take on Dante's epic literary masterpiece, divided.....
Price: $12,500
