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Rasselas
A Tale by
Dr. Johnson
Interesting Mini Book with leather binding. I can not find much on this edition so will be low price. Two illustrations.
Previous owner inscribed this book from Alexander Bolton, or Colton to his daughter on Sept. 1, 1848

Pictorial Boards. Condition: As New. Second Edition. np (168pp) + np (14pp), 98 illustrations in color and b&w. Designed by Christian Patterson. Includes publishers insert pamphlet and two other inserts.
"Redheaded Peckerwood is a work with a tragic underlying narrative - the story of nineteen year old Charles Starkweather and fourteen year old Caril Ann Fugate who murdered ten people, including Fugate's family, during a three day killing spree across Nebraska to the point of their capture in Douglas, Wyoming. From a technical perspective, the photographs incorporate and reference the techniques of photojournalism, forensic photography, image appropriation, reenactment and documentary landscape photography. On a conceptual level, they deal with a charged landscape and play with a photographic representation and truth as the work deconstructs a pre-existing narrative. "Redheaded Peckerwood" also utilizes and plays with a pre-existing archive of material, deliberately mixing fact and fiction, past and… Read More