Smokin’ Shutdown · Hot Rod Yearbook 2018 — Artist’s Proof 58/78

The Hot Rod Yearbook 2018 from Smokin’ Shutdown — Artist’s Proof No. 58 of 78, numbered by hand on the back. Still shrink-wrapped. With photographs of mine inside.

Some of the photographs in the book are mine. Anyone who contributed to the volume receives artist’s proofs instead of a regular copy — hence the two pieces and hence the numbers from the AP series. I am selling them because the loft is being cleared, not because they mean nothing to me.

With a limited edition the publisher prints, alongside the numbered copies, a small number of artist’s proofs — impressions outside the edition proper, which go to the contributors. They are numbered separately and are rarer than the regular series: here 78 artist’s proofs against 222 regular copies, total edition 300.

The yearbook of the European hot rod and kustom scene: the meetings and races of the year, workshop portraits, finished builds and works in progress — photographed by people who drive them. Printed in Berlin.

Printed on the back: «limited edition, numbered: 222 regular pieces | 78 artist’s proofs», with the cover price €89. The handwritten 58 is on the artist’s proofs line. There will be no reprint.

The second artist’s proof, number 23, is also in stock. Both still sealed, both available separately.

• «Smokin’ Shutdown Hot Rod Yearbook 2018»
• Artist’s Proof 58/78, numbered by hand
• Contains photographs by the seller
• Limited edition: 222 regular copies + 78 artist’s proofs
• Cover price €89, printed in Berlin
• Still in the original film
• Large format
• Language: English

New. Unopened in the original film. The film has fine scratches from storage and a pressure mark at one corner; the book underneath is untouched.