Faust Liz (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed. , 1st printing ; 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9780874831542, 9780874831610, 0874831547, 087483161X ; OCLC 21875317 ; LCCN 90039590 ; LOC No LA229 .B66 1990 ; Dewey 378.1/98/0973 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Folklorist Simon J. Bronner takes a long, engaging look at the experience of American campus life, and how it shapes the cultural and social values of those who pass through it. The menacing profs, the fumbling jocks, the curve-setting dweebs are all here, along with a rich assortment of tales, rituals, and practical jokes. ; Simon J. Bronner (born April 7, 1954 in Haifa, Israel) is an American folklorist, ethnologist, historian, sociologist, educator, college dean, and author. Bronner's parents were Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivors who immigrated to the United States from Israel in 1960. His childhood in the U.S. was spent in Chicago and New York City. His undergraduate study was in political science, history, and folklore at Binghamton University, and then he received his M.A. in American Folk Culture at the Cooperstown Graduate Programs of the State University of New York (1977), where he also studied social history, ethnology, and museum studies. In 1990, he was founding director of the Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies (now the Pennsylvania Center for Folklore) and in 2007, the Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at thePennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. He served as Coordinator of the American Studies Program at the college from 1987 to 2002. ; FINE. Book.

Condition: Near Fine. Liz Faust is a Fiber and Paper artist. When this book was published, she was living and working in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She is now in Santa Fe, NM. Her signature is on the verso of the title page, and appears to be hand-signed. There are reproductions in color & black & white of over 100 early postcards of Kalamazoo, Michigan on approximately 58 pages, two images per page. The paper-covered covers appear to have been made by the artist in a beautiful green textured paper on the spine with white textured paper on the covers.There is a pictorial pasteon on the front cover of a postcard with the book's title. The end papers are photo-illustrated. The interior papers are an interesting porous glossy stock. This book does not appear in any of the usual sources, and may be a one-off -- if not, it was undoubtely done in a small printing. It is an interesting and highly unusual Kalamazoo, Michigan item by a well-known artist. ; Color & B&W Illustrations; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; [58] pages; Signed by Author.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Purgatory Pie Press postcard collection Number Six, from the year 1987, with 12 cards present from the year's subscription and kept neatly in the box, which itself is letterpressed and hand numbered 172 out of 300 All 12 cards are beautifully printed and signed, with one even printed on a copper sheet cut to the size of a postcard. All cards are in excellent condition with perhaps the slightest handling wear but hardly a trace. The cardstock grey case with velcro-enclosure also has trace handling and storage wear but overall immaculately kept. Artists include Purgatory co-founders Dikko Faust and Esther Smith as well as Allan Bealy, A.G. Smith, Liz Grace, Lisa Blaushild, M. Bartolos, Brian Buczak, Jan Hartley, Miriam Schaer. Signed by Illustrator(s).