Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
by Weschler, Lawrence
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679439986
- ISBN 13
- 9780679439981
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 1995. 163 pages, illustrations (1 colour); 21 cm. Subtitle on jacket: Pronged ants, horned humans, mice on toast, and other marvels of jurassic technology. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles is the starting point for Weschler's examination of the origins of modern museums, the generative role of pure imagination in both art and science, and the mystifying bases of the authoritative in every field. Writing with great style and humor, Weschler guides the readers through the Museum of Jurassic Technology and through the mind of its curator, David Wilson, a man of unusual imagination who mounts exhibits such as spore-inhaling ants, bats deploying ultraviolet frequencies, peach-pit carvings, and other exhibits that seem the manifest definition of bizarre." . 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124904
- Title
- Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
- Author
- Weschler, Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0679439986
- ISBN 13
- 9780679439981
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Museums; American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999;
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