Derek Jarman; A Biography by Tony Peake - 2000

Woodstock, NY : The Overlook Press, 2000 The Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY. 2000. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a remainder mark on the textblock bottom. Book Condition: Near Fine; remainder mark. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($40.00); light edge bumping. Black boards with black cloth overlay on spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 613 pp 8vo. This is the story of British artist and filmmaker who died of AIDS in 1994. In addition to recounting his life and talents, it is a vivid social and cultural history of an edgy account of a bohemian existence in the warehouse studios that line the Thames and of a scene and of friends of the creative avant garde. A book of grace and fear in the face of his protracted death. A clean very presentable copy.