Softcover. Zustand: g. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. Original wrappers. Heavy water damage to right third of front wrapper extending through title-page. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs. Wraps in poor, interior in very good condition.
Verlag: Coo Press Ltd., London, 1976
Anbieter: Springhead Books, Rochester, Vereinigtes Königreich
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EUR 13,02
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
In den WarenkorbSoft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Includes works by Heinz Hebeisen ; Michael Disfarmer ; Terry Toedtemeier ; Gareth Jones. Paginated pages 397-432, illustrations. Slight shelf wear to edges, staples starting to rust, no inscriptions. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
Anbieter: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Vereinigtes Königreich
EUR 103,11
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 360 pages. 12.40x12.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Chonicle Books, 2008
Anbieter: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. This is a lot of two (2) items, the second being a Very Good condition copy housed in a Mylar sleeve of The West Shore magazine for January of 1889, and that features duotone illustrations of both "Salem, Oregon - Asylum of the Insane" and "Oregon - State Penitentiary, Salem," and suffuse with articles and news about Oregon and especially the Willamette Valley and the Oregon Coast. Simple brown printed wraps, chipping at spine bottom, stapled prior dealer's For Salem card inside front flap. News about the genealogy of the State of Oregon and of Oakland, Newberg, Baker, Salem, McMinnville and other Oregon towns and villages. Library of Dust is one of "those" books that will dent your psyche (in a good way). "Dust is a peculiar substance. Less a material in its own right, with its own characteristics or color, dust is a condition . . . Dust is a potpourri of ingredients, varied to the point of indefinability. Dust includes 'dead insect parts, flakes of human skin, shreds of fabric, and other unpleasing materials'" (Geoff Manaugh quoting Joseph Amato). Library of Dust is a somber, sobering, fascinating, photographic, right-thinking rumination in humane terms on a non-human, perhaps even inhumane collection: the decomposing copper canisters that carried the cremated remains of the former Oregon State Hospital inmates that had gone unclaimed. Library of Dust is comprised of four stellar essays and arresting, full color, full page photographs of the copper-coated tins, oceanic of appearance, encrusted in unique patinas of color and texture, that somehow invoke perhaps the former human beings captured inside them. Bound handsomely in illustrated black pictorial boards in folio hardcover format, measuring 17 1/2" x 13 1/4" in height and width, respectively. (Note: what appear to be scuffings of and rubbings to tips and extremities are in fact not so, but rather, a faithful mimesis of the burnishings of the canisters themselves, according to a publisher rep.). Miniscule, faint title font at front cover, slightly larger at spine and at endpapers is just as meaningful--barely there, but necessary. The heavy black card stock endpapers, however, feature a sort of typographic constellation: each tiny number (from a single number to four numbers) appears in dark space so as to denote a former human being. Assembled jointly by David Maisel and three interlocutors, and with apparent editorial freedom from the publisher. Essays by Geoff Manaugh ("Mineral Kinship"), Terry Toedtemeier ("The Soul Remains: a mineralogical account of the remarkable transformation of the cremation canisters at the Oregon State Hospital") and Michael S. Roth ("Graves of the Insane, Decorated"), then Maisel's "The Library and its Self-Contained Double." Most of them being being larger at their bases than at their heads, the copper canisters are not unlovely but have, instead, a worker-like, handmade quality to them. Some are burnished brightly; others are depressingly dull. From some of them bloom colorful corrosion, and some of the seams are well-nigh unto splitting. Some have numbers stamped into them, like shotgun shell casings, and yet others have abraded paper labels still affixed to them. The lowest number registered is 01, and the highest is 5,121. Uncommon in this fine state.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Verlag: The Northwest Photography Archive & Oregon State University Press, Portland & Corvallis, OR, 2008
Anbieter: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Kanada
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 11.5" x 12" The Northwest Photography Series. Full black cloth boards, aqua titling to spine and front board. 345 pp.Fully illustrated with colour maps and 134 photographic plates. Fine condition.