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Boggs: A Comedy of Values

by Weschler, Lawrence

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Chicago, Illinois: University Of Chicago Press, 1999. The Book is NEAR FINE with a light bump to head & heel of spine. First edition/first printing. All pages are clean & unmarked. Covers are clean and sharp. Binding of book is solid & pages crisp. Jacket is bright and clean. NO soiling or marks. Faint scratch to front panel . Jacket VG + condition. Clean/solid. Protected in mylar. Photos throughout of Bogg's artwork and of him. Signed by the SUBJECT of the book, J.S.G. Boggs. Boggs, born Steven Litzner is famous for his bank note artistry. Boggs only exchanges his art for goods and services. He does not consider his crafted bank notes as currency, merely art. He has been arrested for counterfeiting in England & Australia. He was acquitted in both cases. Bogg's bank note artistry is commonly referred to as 'Boggs bills' & 'Boggs dollars'. Bogg's work is represented in the collections of the British Museum, the Art Institution of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art & the Smithsonian Institution. Perhaps equally noteworthy is to whom the book is inscribed . " 99.06.24.21: @ World Trade Center. 4 Philip Glass, Your music has so often filled my studio and my heart. Your art has so often filled my ears and my head as I have made my art. Cheers, J.S.G. Boggs." Philip Glass is a music composer who in the last 25 years has composed more than 20 operas, 2 piano concertos, and done the soundtracks for such films as, "The Hours", "The Illusionist", "The Truman Show" & "Taking Lives" along with several other popular films.Boggs has also drawn on the title page a brief rendering of the Twin Towers where he signed this copy in the year of publication, 1999, before the terrorist attacks. . Signed By Subject. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.