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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Softcover as issued, richly illustrated throughout. A clean tight unmarked copy, light rubbing to covers and edgewear. The document of an amazing project. One of the Angola 3, Herman Wallace infamously spent over 4 decades in solitary confinement at notorious Angola prison in Louisiana. American artist Jackie Summell after 2 years of correspondence posed a question to Wallace, asking him to imagine his dream house. This project became an 11 year collaboration producing an exhibition that traveled to over a dozen countries and was the basis for the documentary film Herman's House. Sadly, Wallace passed away in 2013 of liver cancer, less than a week after he was freed from prison and granted a new trial. An uncommon and important book.…