Robert Crumb's Meet the Beats Portfolio (1985/1986)









Sudbury, Massachusetts: Water Row Books (folio, signed), 1985 (signed 1986).
9.125" x 6.125" x 0.125" (closed); 9.125" x 24" (open), single fold-out sheet w/ eight panels in stitched boards.

Meet the Beats: A Portfolio of Portraits by R. Crumb, as published as a limited edition of 100 copies of all three portraits by Water Row Books (Sudbury, Massachusetts, US) in 1995. Signed on label by Robert Crumb in February 1996. Printed and handbound at Tabula Rasa Press, Morro Bay, California. 

This is a single sheet (~24" wide when unfolded), with portraits of Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg by Robert Crumb. On the other sides of the panels is a bibliography of the three Beat writers.

This copy is #61 of 100 signed and numbered copies released.

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