1 volume (unpaged) : all color illustrations ; 26 x 26 cm
OCLC
on1369589074
A facsimile edition of the original unique edition. This facsimile edition has a black cloth cover stamped with the title in gold letters, lacking the magnifying glass. Inside are color reproductions of the original ephemera that were mounted in the original edition.
Publisher's description of original unique edition: "Author: C.K.Wilde; Year: 2001; This book is about indulgence, traveling, and colonial imperatives of appropriation. This book is cased in Argentinian purple sude leather, with a mounted glass magnifying lens in the cover; the contents are photographs and ephemera from various locales worldwide. Currency, maps, tickets, candy wrappers, magazine illustration are among materials juxtaposed with photographs from the places where the ephemera was found. The materials are mounted onto Acid free Hannemule from Ruth Lingen. A modified tapes binding was employed, the pages were hinged with a variety of binders clothes, and finally laminated together to seal the Washi paper reinforced spine."