Yod the Inhuman A Fable

Jonathon Keats

ISBN 10: 0976150921 / ISBN 13: 9780976150923

Published by Judah L. Magnes Museum / Modernism, Berkeley, CA, 2006

About this Item

Paper-covered boards, in dustjacket. [40] p. Number 886 of an edition of 1000. Numbered, and signed by Keats on the colophon page; pencil marks corner front flyleaf, else no other marks. A beautiful copy, nearly as new. Just a little wear at spine ends; no other defects. Tight binding, intact hinges, spine a little off square in what looks like a binder's defect (i.e. not from use). Unclipped dustjacket practically perfect, with slightest creasing at top edge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Yod the Inhuman A Fable
• Publisher: Judah L. Magnes Museum / Modernism, Berkeley, CA
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0976150921
• ISBN 13: 9780976150923
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: B&W illustrations by the author
• Edition: Signed & numbered limited edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

From the fable cyle The Book of the Unknown, this edition was writtten, illustrated and designed by Jonathon Keats, and published by Modernism Inc, San Francisco, for the juday L. Magnes Museum, in a singed edition of 1,000 copies. First paragraph: When the scholar Meir lost his wife of twenty years, he did not hire the town matchmaker to find him another. Instead he collected mud from the bed of a river, hauled it home, and sculpted it into a girl on the floor of his cellar.