Lesy, Michael

Wisconsin Death Trip [1973 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING]

Pantheon, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Pantheon, New York 1973. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing (stated First Edition with full numberline ending in 2: per the Random House edition order the words "First Edition" are susequently removed from underneath the numberline to denote a seccond printing) . Oblong quarto. Original cloth gilt titles to the spine. Illustrated with photographs by Charles Van Schaick taken in a small Wisconsin town between 1890 and 1910. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van Schaik and added a commentary giving the viewer a fascinating glimpse of life in the midwest at the turn of the twentieth century.Cited in Roth 101; Parr & Badger II, 217; Open Book, 292. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket ($15.00 price) with light shelf wear to edges of jacket, diagonal creas to upper corner of front flap, a 1-inch closed tear with associated cresing to lower left edgr of front panel, and another 1-inch closed tear with assiciated cresing to upper left of rear panel (presents nicely in a new, clear, brodart protector). Fine / near fine. Item #4987
ISBN: 0394483669

Price: $450.00