Library Dust by Maisel David (10 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Library of Dust - David Maisel - Hardback - Fair Condition: Scuff and damage to outside covers This is photographer David Maisel's exploration of loss and remembrance through his unsettling images of copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of patients from an Oregon psychiatric hospital that had flooded repeatedly over the years.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not issued. 1st Edition. 108 pp colour plates throughout, large format hardback with illustrated covers. Edges to covers rubbed, corners a little bumped, some indentations and scratches to front cover, pages clean and firmly held. Heavy book will need extra postage outside UK.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. All Color Plates. Slightly Worn And Rubbed, With Texture Lost, To Edges. Folio.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Pictorial boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block has two black scuffs to fore edge, but is otherwise clean and unmarked. Boards have moderate scuffing to edges of front board, moderate to heavy scuffing to rear board particularly at top edge, and heavy rubbing and bubbling to laminate at very edges, corners, ends of spine and along edges of spine. Moderate bumping to corners and ends of spine. Binding is tight, front board is cocked.…

Condition: Good. Text block firm and clean, binding tight, boards straight, pages crisp. Minor rubbing/bumping to corners. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. US veteran operated.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This is a lot of two (2) items, the second being a Very Good condition copy housed in a Mylar sleeve of The West Shore magazine for January of 1889, and that features duotone illustrations of both "Salem, Oregon - Asylum of the Insane" and "Oregon - State Penitentiary, Salem," and suffuse with articles and news about Oregon and especially the Willamette Valley and the Oregon Coast. Simple brown printed wraps, chipping at spine bottom, stapled prior dealer's For Salem card inside front flap. News about the genealogy of the State of Oregon and of Oakland, Newberg, Baker, Salem, McMinnville and other Oregon towns and villages. Library of Dust is one of "those" books that will dent your psyche (in a good way). "Dust is a peculiar substance. Less a material in its own right, with its own characteristics or color, dust is a condition . . . Dust is a potpourri of ingredients, varied to the point of indefinability. Dust includes 'dead insect parts, flakes of human skin, shreds of fabric, and other unpleasing materials'" (Geoff Manaugh quoting Joseph Amato). Library of Dust is a somber, sobering, fascinating, photographic, right-thinking rumination in humane terms on a non-human, perhaps even inhumane collection: the decomposing copper canisters that carried the cremated remains of the former Oregon State Hospital inmates that had gone unclaimed. Library of Dust is comprised of four stellar essays and arresting, full color, full page photographs of the copper-coated tins, oceanic of appearance, encrusted in unique patinas of color and texture, that somehow invoke perhaps the former human beings captured inside them. Bound handsomely in illustrated black pictorial boards in folio hardcover format, measuring 17 1/2" x 13 1/4" in height and width, respectively. (Note: what appear to be scuffings of and rubbings to tips and extremities are in fact not so, but rather, a faithful mimesis of the burnishings of the canisters themselves, according to a publisher rep.). Miniscule, faint title font at front cover, slightly larger at spine and at endpapers is just as meaningful--barely there, but necessary. The heavy black card stock endpapers, however, feature a sort of typographic constellation: each tiny number (from a single number to four numbers) appears in dark space so as to denote a former human being. Assembled jointly by David Maisel and three interlocutors, and with apparent editorial freedom from the publisher. Essays by Geoff Manaugh ("Mineral Kinship"), Terry Toedtemeier ("The Soul Remains: a mineralogical account of the remarkable transformation of the cremation canisters at the Oregon State Hospital") and Michael S. Roth ("Graves of the Insane, Decorated"), then Maisel's "The Library and its Self-Contained Double." Most of them being being larger at their bases than at their heads, the copper canisters are not unlovely but have, instead, a worker-like, handmade quality to them. Some are burnished brightly; others are depressingly dull. From some of them bloom colorful corrosion, and some of the seams are well-nigh unto splitting. Some have numbers stamped into them, like shotgun shell casings, and yet others have abraded paper labels still affixed to them. The lowest number registered is 01, and the highest is 5,121. Uncommon in this fine state.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good plus, moderately bumped at the corners, with no dust jacket as issued.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Folio. 108pp. Pictorial boards. Illustrated throughout; 71 colour reproductions of Maisel's work. Some moderate rubbing to boards' edges. Internally pristine. The following is a quote from The New York Times' 2008 review: "Library of Dust, from the photographer David Maisel, may well be this years most haunting book of images. It is a collection of photographs of copper canisters, each containing the unclaimed remains of a patient from a psychiatric hospital in Oregon (the same one used for filming One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest). Rivulets of chemical corrosion, almost oceanic in their intense coloring, run down the sides. Mr. Maisels book is a fevered meditation on memory, loss, and the uncanny monuments we sometimes recover about what has gone before." Scarce.…