ISBN: 9780957609501 - Malicious Damage: The Defaced Library Books of Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Apparently very uncommon volume documenting this amazing project which combines visual art and literature in a most devious and striking way. 185 pages with tons of very richly printed reproductions of the defaced books in question as well as copious text and photographs giving context to the whole affair. Excellent condition. Binding solid, sturdy, tight, square. Interior is bright, clean, free of any marks or damage at all. Boards clean and firm with just some light rubbing and one small bump in the middle of the back panel that appears to be more from a printing error than any trauma. Covered in mylar, lovely copy.…

Hard cover. 186 p. Audience: General/trade. Very good in very good dust jacket.

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HARDCOVER. Condition: Used; Very Good. Used; Very Good. 41-A-01 Donlon Books, London, 2013 Hardcover. Flat signed by both Isla Colsell and Philip Hoare. Text is clean and unmarked. Book Condition; Very Good Malicious Damage is an account of one of the most intriguing events in book lore: the campaign by upstart playwrights Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell to steal hundreds of books from London libraries in the 1960s, deface them as an act of criticism (both literary and against the library system itself) and then secretly return them to the stacks for unsuspecting patrons to find. . 0. HARDCOVER.…