Search preferences
Skip to main search results

Search filters

Product Type

  • All Product Types 
  • Books (3)
  • Magazines & Periodicals (No further results match this refinement)
  • Comics (No further results match this refinement)
  • Sheet Music (No further results match this refinement)
  • Art, Prints & Posters (No further results match this refinement)
  • Photographs (No further results match this refinement)
  • Maps (No further results match this refinement)
  • Manuscripts & Paper Collectibles (No further results match this refinement)

Condition

Binding

Collectible Attributes

Language (3)

Price

  • Any Price 
  • Under £ 20 (No further results match this refinement)
  • £ 20 to £ 35 (No further results match this refinement)
  • Over £ 35 
Custom price range (£)

Free Shipping

  • Free Shipping to United Kingdom (No further results match this refinement)

Seller Location

  • Seller image for Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal for sale by Bookwood

    Macgregor, John M. (Henry Darger)

    Published by Delano Greenidge Editions, New York, 2002

    ISBN 10: 0929445155 ISBN 13: 9780929445151

    Language: English

    Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars 5-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

    Contact seller

    First Edition

    £ 1,756.88

    Convert currency
    £ 19.36 shipping from Australia to United Kingdom

    Destination, rates & speeds

    Quantity: 1 available

    Add to basket

    Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Voluminous study of the life & work of Chicago artist Henry Darger. Foreword by Nathan Lerner. Numerous full-colour and b&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Many double-page spreads. With two large foldout plates, as issued. Includes appendices, comprehensive chapter notes, selected bibliography, plus index. First Edition, with copyright page showing: "2002 This first hardbound edition" & no later printing dates. Large thick oblong tome. "Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. (1892-1973) was a reclusive American writer & artist who worked as a hospital custodian in Chicago, Illinois. He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, along with several hundred drawings & watercolor paintings illustrating the story. The visual subject matter of his work ranges from idyllic scenes in Edwardian interiors & tranquil flowered landscapes populated by children & fantastic creatures, to scenes of horrific terror & carnage depicting young children being tortured & massacred. Much of his artwork is mixed media with collage elements. Darger's artwork has become one of the most celebrated examples of outsider art." From the introduction: "On a snowy day in November 1972, a poor, badly crippled old man left his room on the third floor of a rooming house in Chicago for the last time. His name was Henry Darger. He had lived in the room for forty years. It was filthy, crammed with his possessions, mostly things found in the garbage. Henry never threw anything out. The room was filled, almost solid, with junk. Henry was now eighty years old & far too feeble to carry anything down the stairs. So he left everything behind. He had no need of his possessions anyway: he was going to an old folks home to die. When Darger's landlord, Nathan Lerner (an American artist of very considerable reputation), assisted by a young student, David Berglund, began to clean out Henry's room they found some surprises: an eight-volume autobiography, consisting of 5,084 handwritten pages, & entitled The History of My Life, which Henry had begun writing in 1963 after retiring. Then, when the old trunks were opened, they made a far more spectacular discovery: a history of another world called In the Realms of the Unreal, in fifteen volumes, 15,145 typewritten pages, unquestionably the longest work of fiction ever written. In time the room also yielded the three huge bound volumes of illustrations for that work, several hundred pictures, many over 12 feet long and painted on both sides. By accident, the landlord had stumbled upon a concealed & secret life work which no one had ever seen: Darger's alternate world. As far as we know, and the question has been investigated in detail, Henry Darger never showed his pictures or his writings to anyone. He never sought to exhibit the paintings, never tried to publish the writings. Although he worked on In the Realms of the Unreal & its sequels, from 1911 when he was nineteen years old, until 1971 when he was seventy-nine, writing & painting constantly night after night for sixty years, he hid the product of his creative activity in his room & never told anyone about it". Printed in China. Bound in publisher's original colour pictorial boards, photographic endpapers. No dustjacket issued. A FINE very nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 720pp. Very heavy large volume (over 3.5kg), extra shipping may be required for destinations outside Australia. Scarce book, in fine collectable condition. RARE.

  • Darger, Henry and John M. MacGregor

    Published by Lausanne: Colection de l'art brut and Fondazione Galleria Gottardo Lugano, 1996

    ISBN 10: 2884060227 ISBN 13: 9782884060226

    Language: French

    Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.

    Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars 5-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

    Contact seller

    £ 22.34 shipping from U.S.A. to United Kingdom

    Destination, rates & speeds

    Quantity: 1 available

    Add to basket

    Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 112 pages, in French; very good condition; except some rubbing wear to boards; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

  • Henry Darger, (Text) John M. MacGregor

    Published by Delano Greenidge Editions, LLC, New York, 2002

    ISBN 13: 2900013669899

    Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

    Association Member: ABAA ILAB

    Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars 4-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

    Contact seller

    £ 26.06 shipping from U.S.A. to United Kingdom

    Destination, rates & speeds

    Quantity: 1 available

    Add to basket

    Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oblong 4to. Starting to top of front hinge. Loosening to rear hinge, but not starting. Slight overopening to middle of textblock. Folding to foredge of fold-out painting on page 600. Light ripping to top back spine corner and bottom back forecorner of boards. 1 centimeter closed tear to top fore edge of turn-in. Significant bumping and crinkling to top forecorners and front joint. Faint darkening and minor blemishes to edges of textblock. Square barcode sticker affixed to rear pastedown. VG.