Wooden nickel art project: a catalog of artists wooden nickels
[Iowa City: The Happy Press], 1988]. First edition, side-stapled chapbook limited to 350 copies, 11" x 8½"; 20 leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; including 13 leaves of illustrations of customized wooden nickels by various artists, musicians, writers, sports figures, politicians, poets, and others; original pictorial wrappers by Morice; fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. Laid in are five pages of photocopied news articles about the project from the Iowa City Press-Citizen Among those submitting the wooden nickels with artwork - 240 of them - are Don Rickles, Pearl Bailey, Phyllis Diller, Joan Baez, George Bush, Andy Griffith, Mario Cuomo, Jesse Helms, Walter Mondale, Hank Ketcham, Dr. Suess, Frank Capra, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Manson, William F. Buckley, Mel Brooks, Johnny Unitas, Stan Musial, Jim Henson, Ringo Starr, Larry Bird, Ralph Nader, Carrie Fisher, even Bozo the Clown. Iowa only in OCLC, and that copy defective. Item #64755
Price: $350.00
