Wisconsin Death Trip by Lesy, First Edition (15 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition oblong softcover, good. Curling to covers, slight wear to edges. No writing or marks. Preface by Warren Susman, introduction by Michael Lesy. All photographs, black and white, from the Van Schaick Collection of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. From the years 1890 -1910, Charles Van Schaick, the town photographer of a small Wisconsin community, took over 30,000 photographs, of which his glass plates were found and many made into these photographs for the State Historical Society. Unpaginated. M06899.

Purple Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. B&w illustrations (illustrator). First Edition thus. [some soiling and wear to covers; light edge wear to outer pages] Size: Oblong 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Van Schaick, Charley (Photog.) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 11-3/8" x 8-7/8" (landscape format), 263pp (unpag.) incl. prelims. Printed on alkaline paper and perfect case bound in purple cloth boards with black end papers. Jacket is worn, with conspicuous edge wear, creasing, curling, numerous tears, and chipping. Boards are faded / discolored where it was exposed due to jacket damage. Otherwise, minor edge wear to boards. Binding is square and tight. Pages are clean and unmarked. NOTE that this is a large volume, and there may be additional shipping costs for orders outside North America.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. Cloth/dust jacket Small Quarto. purple cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket unclipped, unpaginated first edtion, second printing, small tag to front endpaper, dj worn and torn on the edges, covers lightly sunned Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Quer-4°. [131] Bl. mit 153 Abb. auf Tafeln. OLn. mit illustr. OU. (by Kenneth Miyamoto). Auer 558. Roth, The Book of 101 Books 222 f. The Open Book 292 f. - Erste Ausgabe. - "Michael Lesy's Wisconsin Death Trip is an eccentric, audacious, and frequently annoying book that its author calls "as much an exercise of history as it is an experiment of alchemy." Originally presented as Lesy's Ph.D. thesis at Rutgers, the book is also as much a document of its time as it is a reflection on the past. In the early '70s, when all received wisdom was subject to skeptical 'interrogation," Lesy's imaginative and radical reevaluation of the historical record became a campus cult book much as Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media had nearly a decade before. Drawing primarily from an archive of 3,000 images (culled from 30,000 glass-plate negatives) made by town photographer Charles Van Schaick and from newspaper accounts first printed in the Badger State Banner, Lesy lays out an intricate patchwork of fact and fiction whose blighted nexus is the Wisconsin community of Black River Falls betwee n the Years 1890 and 1910. Lesy approaches the material like a novelist or a New Journalist, supplementing terse news from the Banner with observations by "two mythical creatures, a town historian and a local gossip, and excerpts from Main Street, Spoon River Anthology, and other relevant texts. . The photographs aren't much more convincing, but they've got a certain morbid fascination. Van Schaick was not an undiscovered small-town visionary like Disfarmer, but he was considerably more versatile than the Arkansas studio photographer, and Lesy includes his pictures of school groups, rural scenes, still lifes, parties, commercial facades, and even a muscular male nude among the expected array of formal and informal portraits. But since the book is haunted by death, the photos of the living are bracketed and overshadowed by pictures of babies dead in their coffins, of extravagant memorial wreaths, and of mourning or maddened females. Lesy's decision to collage and manipulate some of these images, often simply by doubling them as if in a mirror, is in keeping with his approach to the other historical raw material here, which is to say at once respectful and fanciful. Some would call it fast and loose" (V. Aletti in Roth). - Sehr gutes sauberes Exemplar der gesuchten gebundenen Ausgabe. Sprache: englisch.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. 1 inch open tear at top of front panel. ; 11.4 X 8.5 X 1.2 inches; 250 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated wraps. Simultaneous paperbound issue. First Edition (stated)/First Printing (number line begins in "2" per Random House's anomalous designation system). Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated 262 pp. B/w photos (154); illus. (9); Preface by Warren Susman; Intro. by Michael Lesy; excerpts from Black River Falls town archives; period photos by Charles Van Schaick sequenced by Lesy. (Parr & Badger II, 216; Roth, 222). Modest shelf wear and corners bumped; previous owners name blotted out inside front cover (2" bar; otherwise no markings on crisp clean pages. Ships fast with tracking.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. Oblong 4to, 18 leaves (printed one side), stapled wrappers. 1 of 400 copies of this rare early issue of Morris Edelson's protean underground review, devoted entirely to photographs by "Wisconsin Death Trip" author Michael Lesy. Unmarked copy, light outer wear. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong quarto, illustrated. A very good copy in a very good + jacket. Purple cloth boards are spotted, minor wear to edges. Foxed. Unclipped jacket has minor wear to edges - slight creasing, nicks, and a small closed tear on lower edge of front panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First edition. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Purple cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $15.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Kenneth Miyamoto. With a preface by Warren Susman. Illustrated throughout with several full-page black and white photographs. The photographs were taken in Black River Falls, WI, by Charles Van Schaik during the nineteenth century (from 1890 to 1910). Aletti and Strauss 222-223. Parr and Badger 216-217. Lesy's publication includes excerpts from contemporary Wisconsin newspapers and archives. A brilliant display of vernacular photography and grimoire, Lesy's book portrays Black River Falls as a desperate place beset by the struggles of an economy in transition. Bibliographers note that Lesy's presentation of history here is selective, with an approach informed by the New Journalism school. However, the United States at large was indeed transforming from an agriculture-foucsed economy to an industrial one, and the effects were keenly felt (especially at this time) as mass migration into cities depressed rural places. A penetrating and at times, unsettling portrait of rural Wisconsin. The binding very slightly shaken, but remains strong and secure; jacket with traces of edge and surface wear, a dampstain to the bottom edge of the jacket's reverse.

Condition: Sehr gut. Pantheon Books, New York. A Division of Random House. 1973. Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 books, page 222/223. Black and white photographs. Purple cloth with photographically illustrated dustjacket. 220 x 280 mm. No pagination. Ca. 250 pages. Condition: Book lightly used and lightly bumped. Dustjacket lightly used, but complete. Scarce first printing (there is a later printing and a reprint also)! Scarce hardcover edition! A collector`s copy! A selection of photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by Charles Van Schaick, a local town photographer. Combined with texts, selected by the author from local archives, newspapers, novels, madhouse records. This approach resulted in a fascinating book, offering a totally different view on American history: a haunting perception reminiscent in some ways of the experiments of the early surrealist film makers.***************Pantheon Books, New York. A Division of Random House. 1973. Amerikanische Erstausgabe. Originalausgabe. Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 books, Seite 222/223. Schwarz-weiß Fotos. Leinen mit illustriertem Original-Schutzumschlag. 220 x 280 mm. Unpaginiert. Ca. 250 Seiten. Zustand: Buch von aussen etwas benutzt und mit einer Bestossung in der unteren Ecke; nur die ersten Seiten sind davon betroffen. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchstesspuren. Ansonsten hervorragend erhalten. Insgesamt guter Zustand! Hier die seltene Erstausgabe (nicht zu verwechseln mit dem Zweitdruck und dem Reprint)! In der seltenen Hardcover-Version! Tolles Sammler-Exemplar! Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1600.

Condition: Wie neu. Pantheon Books, New York. A Division of Random House. 1973. Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 books, page 222/223. Black and white photographs. Purple cloth with photographically illustrated dustjacket. 220 x 280 mm. No pagination. Ca. 250 pages. Condition: In sensational clean condition without defects. Dustjacket 100% complete without tears or missing parts. Scarce first printing (there is a later printing and a reprint also)! Scarce hardcover edition! A collector`s copy! A selection of photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by Charles Van Schaick, a local town photographer. Combined with texts, selected by the author from local archives, newspapers, novels, madhouse records. This approach resulted in a fascinating book, offering a totally different view on American history: a haunting perception reminiscent in some ways of the experiments of the early surrealist film makers.***************Pantheon Books, New York. A Division of Random House. 1973. Amerikanische Erstausgabe. Originalausgabe. Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 books, Seite 222/223. Schwarz-weiß Fotos. Leinen mit illustriertem Original-Schutzumschlag. 220 x 280 mm. Unpaginiert. Ca. 250 Seiten. Zustand: In sensationellem Zustand. Innen sauber und ohne Mängel. Der Schutzumschlag ebenfalls hervorragend erhalten. Ohne Einrisse oder Fehlstellen. Hier die seltene Erstausgabe (nicht zu verwechseln mit dem Zweitdruck und dem Reprint)! In der seltenen Hardcover-Version! Tolles Sammler-Exemplar! Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1600.

First edition, second printing, of this "extraordinary picture of a small town under the Great Depression" (blurb), through photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by "a careful, competent town photographer named Charles Van Schaick" whose negatives were found after his death. Oblong quarto. Numerous monochrome photographic illustrations. Original purple cloth, titles in silver to spine, black endpapers. With dust jacket. Housed in custom grey cloth solander box with titles in white to spine. Ink ownership inscription of Vaughn Connelly dated 1973 to title verso. A hint of rubbing to extremities, the binding otherwise sharp, faint foxing to top edge, else internally clean and fresh. A very good copy in the bright jacket, slight creasing to corners, unclipped.