Field Guide to Decent Humans. This item is unavailable.Field Guide to Decent Humans

VAN SANDWYK, Charles Field Guide to Decent Humans Vancouver: n.d. [c.2011]. Original hand coloured etching (page measures 14.5 x 19cm, image 11 x 15cm, in mount 23 x 30.5cm); featuring a bespectacled corvid in a red scarf sitting on a branch, next to a nest sheltering blue eggs and three books entitled ‘Field Guide to Decent Humans’, ‘Bird Lovers’ and ‘Bad Eggs’; colour added in watercolour paint; the books and spectacles tipped in gold; dark green mount bordered gold; fine. Artist’s proof, signed by van Sandwyk in pencil with ‘Artist’s Proof’ to the lower left hand corner. This image later appeared in a trifold publication with the same name. It was also included as a frontispiece in the deluxe edition of a book of poetry entitled ‘I believe’ (2011).