ROEHR, Karyn.

THE UNIVERSE IS ROUND LIKE A GOURD [titled from the first words in the text].

No place, publisher, or date [late 20th century?]. Apparently a unique artist’s book, an illustrated manuscript. Oblong 4to (9 ½ x 10 ½ inches). (12) pp. Untitled, the text is a simple telling of a creation myth in which the divine serpent and his god are the creative forces. On the final page is the annotation “Africa – Dahomey”; on the rear cover the artist has signed in graphite pencil, “Karyn Roehr.” Effective and imaginative, it was perhaps done for a class [we have been unable to uncover any information concerning the artist]. Lettered in colored pencils, designed to suggest rather than depict images using paper treated and cut for each concept. Primary techniques are spattering and paste treatments of art papers as well as brown craft paper, the latter flat or crinkled, then cut in evocative shapes and mounted; blue, green, yellow, and brown predominate. One paper appears to have been aquatinted in colors and cut. The green, blue, and cream wrappers are of stiff watercolor paper, spattered, cut, and mounted. The unnumbered pages are bound Oriental style and stitched with cream thread. Item #66257

Price: $300.00