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1987

  • Work on this object began.

1996

  • We acquired this object.

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Book Cover, Book Cover: Perfect Gallo

This is a Book cover. It is dated 1987 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is support: paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Steven Heller.

Its dimensions are

21.4 × 14.6 cm (8 7/16 × 5 3/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Imprinted on cover in rust colored ink, lower left: R Goldstrom (in script). Imprinted, inner right flap, lower left corner: Jacket design by Louise Fili/ Jacket illustration by Robert Goldstrom/ Pantheon Books, New York/ 1/88 Printed in U.S.A. c 1987 Random House, Inc.

Cite this object as

Book Cover, Book Cover: Perfect Gallo; USA; support: paper; 21.4 × 14.6 cm (8 7/16 × 5 3/4 in.); Gift of Steven Heller; 1996-74-88

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