The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater by Meatyard, Ralph Eugene - 1974

The Jargon Society, 1974. Book. Illus. by B&W Photo Illus.. Good +. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Unmarked, solid copy. Covers with moderate edgewear, tiny bit missing from top front corner of front cover. General wear. Minor to moderate foxing on edges of covers, bottom inch of spine half worn off but not affecting 'Jargon' lettering. A little worn but in good condition..

The Jargon Society, 1974. Softcover. Very good/No jacket. Some edgewear.

New York: The Jargon Society, 76, 1974. First edition. Small area of the laminate peeled at the rear, a very pale dampstain lower margin, else a very good copy. 4to. Original wrappers.

Millerton, NY: Jargon Society, 1974. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. The book "consists of 64 portraits of "Lucybelle Crater"...played by Meatyard's wife Madelyn wearing a cheap dime-store mask...paired with various family members and friends wearing one of those transparent masks that have an aging affect on wearers... This book is, in a way, Meatyard's purest statement. He was dying, and didn't have time for a lot of nuances. It its forthrightness and its gothic loopiness, it manages to illuminate two truths simultaneously: that we are all the same, really; and that we are all different, under the masks"-from Roth's Book of 101 Books, page 230. Text by Jonathan Williams, Ronald Johnson, Ralph Meatyard, Guy Mendes and Thomas Meyer. Illustrated with full-page halftone photographs. 84 pages. 8-15/16 by 10-7/16 inches. First edition (paperback issue; published in hardcover at the same time). One inch split at top of spine, minor soiling to covers; some lamination peel, as usual, else very… Read More

The Jargon Society, 1974. Softcover. Very good/No jacket. Some edgewear.

N.p.: The Jargon Society, 1974. First edition. Meatyard, Ralph Eugene. 4to., 84 pp., b&w photo-plates. Pictorial stiff wrappers. The upper tip of the front wrapper has a soft crease; original price sticker affixed to the rear wrapper. The copy of Alan Winer, photographer and former administrator of the Visual Studies Workshop, with his neat signature on the front flyleaf. A near fine copy.

New York: Jargon Society, 1974. First edition and first printing. Softcover. The simultaneous paperback issue. Features text by Jonathan Williams, Ronald Johnson, Meatyard, Guy Mendes and Thomas Meyer. A striking collection of black and white images in which all of the subjects are in masks. A close to near fine copy in photo-illustrated wrappers with some of the usual peeling to the lamination on the edges, a small red notation to the front free endpaper and with the tiny rubber-stamp: Gift of Nathan Lyons (1930-2016) to the front free endpaper. Still a pleasing copy of a book that fifty years later still resonates as a classic body of work. (Roth 230-231).

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

The Jargon Society, 1974-06-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

The Jargon Society, 1974-06-01. Hardcover. Good. hardcover with dust jacket, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, cracked, corners bumped, ex-library copy with usual library markings and mylar cover with top layer removed leaving the underlayment beneath the dust jacket, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders