Books

East Hampton, NY: Barry McCallion, 2013. full limp leather with a leather wrap-around, cloth-covered slipcase, paper color illustration on front panel, paper spine label which the artist has signed in ink. McCallion, Barry. 8vo. full limp leather with a leather wrap-around, cloth-covered slipcase, paper color illustration on front panel, paper spine label which the artist has signed in ink. thirteen hinged pages, unpaginated, but each is a full-page spread, with one page colophon at rear. Unique foldout Artist Book by Barry McCallion. Fine in fine clamshell box. Signed and dated by the artist on the title page. From the colophon: "Excerpts from Kim, Rudyard Kipling's novel, occupy the recto pages of this book. The verso pages begin as a large emply circle where, page after page, images slowly accrete by the addition of common objects: a begging bowl, prayer beads, an arrow, a chair, a leaf, a cloud. The verso and recto pages face each other, developing and advancing as…

Kim is a novel by Rudyard Kipling. It is set against the backdrop of the Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia.