Description
Seasonal miscellanies on book collecting, books, urinals, and other topics, printed for Michael Zinman. Five numbers (of ten total).
Comprising:
3. Porky’s River Rats and Others of Their Ilk. The Framing of American Society through Its Social Constitutions (2011).
5. Pretty Women (2014).
6. What Does Richard Cheney Read? (2014).
8. Unexpected Art (2018).
9. The Elixir of Life (2020).
With a copy of the Authorized Trade Edition (2009 reprint) of Annals of Collecting 1 : Lawrence’s Flag.
“Michael Zinman is a private collector who surely ranks among the greatest Americana collectors of all time”
— James Green, Library Company of Philadelphia
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“surely one of the most original thinkers in modern collecting [. . .] Read this book for the laughs, read it as the long-awaited story of a great American collector, and most importantly, read it to stimulate your own thinking about the act of collecting.”
— from a review of The Critical Mess by Jennifer Larson
— from a review of The Critical Mess by Jennifer Larson