STANLEY MOUSE HAND SIGNED IN PERSON 1 - BOOK RUBAIYAT OF OMAR . AND 1- ORIGINAL BLUE TATOO SKELETON AND ROSES BLOTTER ART SHEET .THE IMAGE IN THIS VINTAGE BOOK IS WHAT INSPIRED MOUSE AND KELLY TO CREATE THE WORLD FAMOUS GRATEFUL DEAD POSTER FD- 26 AND BRING THE IMAGE TO LIFE ON THE WORLD FAMOUS FD-26 KNOWN AS THE SKELETON AND ROSES .THE RARE BLUE TATTOO SKELETON & ROSES SHEET AND THE BOOK WILL INCREASES IN VALUE OVER TIME,  READY TO BE FRAMED .THE BLOTTER ART SHEET WAS PRINTED BY MONKEY PAUL GUEST ON A HINDENBURG OFF SET PRESS WITH VEGTABLE INK USING CHLORINE FREE PAPER JUST LIKE IT WAS DONE IN THE 60s -70s THE APPROVED PROCESS BY ALL SERIOUS COLLECTORS STANLEY  MOUSE IS FAMOUS FOR ALL HIS IMAGES ON HIS GRATEFUL DEAD POSTERS FROM THE 60s  . PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS . AS ALWAYS THESE SHEETS HAVE NO DRUGS ON THEM OR AROUND THEM . BLUE TATTOO BLOTTER ART SHEET Size is 8 X 6 IN EXCELLENT CONDITION ,PERFECT SIZE FOR FRAMING ,BOOK IS 9 1/2. X. 6 1/4.

IN GREAT CONDITION , ,NO MISSING PAGES ,COMES WITH A C.O.A. FOR THE SIGNATURES ,THIS COLLECTABLE DUO , ULTIMATELY WILL BE THE STAR OF YOUR COLLECTION

This vintage book is believed to have been published in the early 1900s ,The hand signature was done in Stanley’s studio in 2025 in my presence. I personally took the photos as Stanley signed & shared very interesting facts he uncovered just recently. There is a unique numerology story as the chapter (shown in Roman numerols XXVI - 26 corresponds with the Family Dog poster as ‘FD26.’ In the book page 72 showing the chapter ‘26’ adjoins to the image of the Skeleton & Roses. As the conversation continued Stanley told me that he & Kelley were both of the age of 26!!

In 1966, Mouse & Kelley were commissioned to create a venue poster for an upcoming show featuring The Grateful Dead. Neither were familiar with the band. Their first design first designed incorrectly spelled the band’s name as “Greatful Dead!” They continued & needed ‘inspiration’ for the second design…so headed to the San Francisco Public Library. Mouse recalled: “We went to the San Francisco library and started looking through books on poster art. They went into a back room that were reference books you couldn’t check out. They started paging through looking for something different. They came across the image of the Skeleton and thought, ‘This says Grateful Dead all over it.’” What Mouse found was The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Omar Khayyam was a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer who lived from 1048-1131, and a rubaiyat is a form of poetry (a quatrain rhyme)—hence The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The translation best known to English-speakers and found by Mouse and Kelley was done by Edward FitzGerald and illustrated by Edmund Joseph Sullivan, with five editions published from 1859 to 1889 that were more interpretive than they were literal. Mouse was particularly drawn to a Sullivan illustration that accompanied Verse 26, and couldn’t leave it behind. “I hate to say this,” Mouse recalled, “but Kelley cut it out with a pen knife. I always say that we Xeroxed it, but there weren’t Xerox machines then. I finally found it about two years ago, the actual cut-out piece, and I went, ‘Oh, my God’… And the poem that goes with this illustration is fantastic. It’s short and sweet and had to do with wine, women and song.” A perfect match for The Grateful Dead sound.Kelley appropriated the black-and-white Sullivan illustration, and Mouse colored it in. The resulting poster advertised The Dead’s Avalon Ballroom show with Oxford Circle, September 16-17, 1966, and cemented Mouse and Kelley’s presence in San Francisco’s rock poster scene.

Stanley designed with Art Nouveau elegance and American pop-art sensibilities. He produced posters for the Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom. The art promoting the San Francisco scene became instant collectibles and went far beyond the local scene to reach museums worldwide. Art and music came together in images associated with the The Family Dog, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Steve Miller. Then on to Jimi Hendrix, Journey, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Blind Faith. In all, Mouse and Kelley did the first eight album covers for the Grateful Dead, including the delightful Ice Cream Kid/Rainbow Foot cover of their Europe 72 live album. The cover art for Steve Millers album Book of Dreams won a Grammy Award