signed first edition
1984 · Purchase; Rochester
by Bernstein, Dennis & Warren Lehrer
Purchase; Rochester: Ear/Say; Visual Studies Workshop, 1984. Quarto (27.5 x 21 cm.), 104 pages. Three colors on acid-free Mohawk Superfine. Color separation by Phil Zimmermann. Subtitle from second title page following copyright page. ~ FIRST EDITION; number 470 of 700 signed and numbered copies, with the signature of Warren Lehrer. An artist’s book rightfully considered to be a masterpiece of offset color lithography. Described by Johanna Drucker in The Century of Artists’ Books as, "a carnivalesque-pop-art amusement- motel-and-theme-park of visual and typographic devices." The authors state “French Fries is a quick service circus of culinary discourse, (truncated)