Design for Death.
- Used
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United KingdomMaggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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Condition: Used
US$ 258.22
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First edition. Illustrated throughout after drawings by Barbara Jones in black and white, several photographs reproduced in black and white. 4to., 25.5 x 19cm, 304pp. Original publisher's purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge purple, with original pictorial dustjacket after design by Barbara Jones with upper panel showing a stylised skull on a purple background. London, Andre Deutsch. Very good, head of jacket slightly creased, neat ownership inscription to ffep. P.77 annotated innoffensively in pencil with dimensions, presumably for reproduction. 'Everyone dies. For thousands of years, uncountable millions of corpses have been given funerals. No one really expects to die or to have to deal with death, but suddenly it happens, and then even the most rational of the living find that it has stirred up lost scraps of ritual in them.' So begins Barbara Jones' astonishing survey of the visual identity of death, concentrating on the Western world, but with 'some other things (which) are here for comparison, or because I like them; liking is the hard base of everything, so I have drawn what I like'. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Design for Death.
- Author
- JONES (Barbara)
- Publication year
- 1967
Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA
London, United Kingdom
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Established in 1853, Maggs Brothers is one of the world's oldest antiquarian booksellers still operating today. We sell books worldwide through the internet as well as from our regularly published catalogues, and we are delighted to welcome customers to our two premises in Bloomsbury and Mayfair.
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Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA
Maggs Bros. Ltd., 48 Bedford Square
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