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BUILDING STORIES
by Ware, Chris
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon, 2012. First printing. Near fine.. Inscribed first edition of Ware's most ambitious work, completed over ten years and incorporating myriad techniques and forms. Recalling the work of Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp, BUILDING STORIES is a physical, tactile work made of individual pieces that the reader must assemble together to tell the story of an unnamed woman living in a three-story brownstone in Chicago. Martha Kuhlman said of the work, "The project-to document the multiple perspectives of these characters-aspires to a graphic novel on the scale of James Joyce's Ulysses." A monument. Illustrated paper-covered box measuring 11.5" x 17.75" approx. containing fourteen individual items including volumes in cloth, paper boards, broadsides and booklets. Inscribed to box lid interior (copyright page) "To Nick, best of luck! C. Ware./2012.". Original interior shrinkwrap opened but present. Minor wear to box at edges. Paper at front cover lifting slightly. Two tiny stains at one edge. Contents pristine.
Synopsis
CHRIS WARE is widely acknowledged as the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and seven-year-old daughter. His Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the "100 Best Books of the Decade" by The Times (London) in 2009. An irregular contributor to This American Life and The New Yorker ( where some of the pages of this book first appeared) his original drawings have been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and in piles behind his work table in Oak Park, Illinois.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41929
- Title
- BUILDING STORIES
- Author
- Ware, Chris
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- 21st century,Graphic Novel / Comic
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
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