275 - BULTEAU, Michel. BROWN, James.

BULTEAU, Michel. BROWN, James. Le Monde ouvert. Paris: Young Dog Press, (1997). Small long folio (40.5 cm x 232.5 cm), (6) folded leaves. Partially trimmed sheets, in the publisher’s orange slipcase, with title, authors, and publisher on the front cover (slight signs of wear on the cover). Description: A limited-edition artist’s book combining the poetry of Michel Bulteau—a French author and experimental musician who has lived in New York since the 1970s—with original lithographs by James Brown (1951–2020), an American modern artist from the 1980s American art scene. One-of-a-kind print. First edition, one of the HC copies, no. I/X, on watermarked BFK Rives vellum. Includes 3 original color lithographs by James Brown: one full-page, one double-page, and one insert. Signed by James Brown and Michel Bulteau in the colophon. Handwritten justification in the artist’s own hand on the last folio. Autograph inscription by Bulteau in pencil: “to Laure and Jean-Philippe.../ Paris, March 98.” A fine copy.