PREPARING THE GHOST: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer.
by Frank, Matthew Gavin
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a good only dust jacket (approximately half of the rear flap of the dust jacket has been cut off) /good only
- ISBN 10
- 0871402831
- ISBN 13
- 9780871402837
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About This Item
New York:: Liveright,, (2014). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a good only dust jacket (approximately half of the rear flap of the dust jacket has been cut off) . First printing. A book in which "memory, mythology, and obsession collide . . Moses Harvey was the eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist who first photographed the near-mythic giant squid in 1874, draping it over a shower curtain rod to display its magnitude." One review called this is a "deliciously delirious layering of science, biography, history, mystery, linguistics, myth, philosophy, epistemology, adventure, travel . . a truly great essay. Illustrated with small drawings. Sources. xi, Small format. 297 pp.
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- Title
- PREPARING THE GHOST: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer.
- Author
- Frank, Matthew Gavin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in a good only dust jacket (approximately half of the rear flap of the dust jacket has been cut off)
- Jacket Condition
- good only
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0871402831
- ISBN 13
- 9780871402837
- Publisher
- Liveright,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2014)
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