Donkey in the Sea before Us

Book with 24 lithographs and 27 poems by Jim Dine; published 2010; 64 pages; with slipcase

Dimensions

Book: 9 13/16 x 9 1/16 x 9/16 (25 X 23 × 1.4)

Slipcase: 10 1/16 × 9 1/4 x 12/16 (25.6 × 23.5 × 1.9)

Inscriptions

Numbered, signed "Jim Dine", and dated "2010" (on colophon)

Edition and proofs

35,9 AP

Publisher

Michael Woolworth Publications, Paris

Printers and workshops

Julien Torhy and Michael Woolworth at Atelier Michael Woolworth, Paris (lithograph); Ruth Lingen, New York (text composition and letterpress); Atelier Houdart, Paris (bookbinding); CPMC Gilles Vercel, Paris (slipcase)

Working period

March 2009-October 2010

Printing order

1.   Black, letterpress

2.   Black, stone (lithograph)

Type and paper

Typeface Bodoni; Arches Vellum 200 gsm and French Maled (cover) paper

Binding

Softcover with marbled wrappers and printed paper label on front cover

Whereabouts

Boston (ed. 19/35, 2 TP and mock up with loose pages collaged with photocopies and hand-written text)

Comments

Trade edition differing in format and design published in 2013 by Steidl, Göttingen (cat. no. 618).