ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POP ART OBJECTS: WARHOL'S INDEX (BOOK). WARHOL, ANDY. 1928-1987. Index (Book). New York: Random House, 1967. 4to. Factory photographs by Billy Name, illustrated throughout. Pop-ups and moveables present and nearly all in working order: pop-up castle, foldout accordion, pop-up bi-plane, spring-loaded disc (detached), dodecahedron on elastic string (rubber band on inside broken), Lou Reed/Velvet Underground flexidisc, fold-out nose poster with overlays, pop-up Hunt's can, 8-panel sheet of blotter paper. Lacking gold balloon, but with remnants present on sheets. Original black cloth over boards, mounted holograph to upper cover, spine lettered in silver. Index (Book) is a 'quintessential photobook [a] cornucopia of photographic imagery in which found photographs, snap-shots, photographs by Warhol's associates, photographic reproductions of his 'paintings' (themselves self-screened photographs) and other kinds of imagery are collaged to talk about one basic subject--the gargantuan ego and artistic talent of Andy Warhol. Index (Book) is one of the most important and exuberant Pop art objects ever published... it is also one of the ultimate photobooks-as-objects. It is, in addition, the primary Factory photo album, one of the most authoritative biographies of Warhol and a supreme example of the diaristic photographic mode before there was a considered diaristic mode' (Parr/Badger II, pp 144-5). Roth 101 Books, pp 188-9. Lot to be sold without reserve. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ¤ ¤ Unless indicated by the ¤ symbol next to the lot number (or bearing an explicit statement such as 'No Reserve' or 'Without Reserve'), which denotes no reserve, all lots in the catalog are subject to a reserve. The reserve is the minimum hammer price that the seller is willing to accept for a lot. This amount is confidential and does not exceed the low estimate value. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing