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Paul Shambroom: Purpletown: Photographs and Voices from America's Thin Divide [SIGNED]

SHAMBROOM, Paul

Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota: Tasora Books, 2024
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781948192255
Condition: New / No dust jacket as issued
Item #: 114073

$75.00 save 30% $52.50

Specifics

First edition, first printing. Signed in purple ink on the title page by Shambroom. Hardcover. Purple, red and blue cloth-covered boards with debossed title three-color foil-stamped on cover and spine; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs, text and 'Field Notes and Voices' by Paul Shambroom. Designed by Matthew Rezac. 80 pp., with 56 four-color plates and 9 additional color reproductions (illustrating the 'Field Notes and Voices' section); with an illustrated full-bleed color illustration of the continental United States, opposite the title page, with graphics of voting margins by municipality and precinct. Printed by Bookmobile, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 9-1/4 x 12-1/4 inches.

This first edition was limited to 250 copies.

Condition

New in publisher's shrink-wrap (shrink-wrapped after signature).

Description

From the publisher: "This deluxe volume contains 56 photographs of US communities that were virtual ties in the 2020 presidential election, from more than sixty different towns and cities in twenty-two states. It includes an introductory essay, field notes, and interviews, and a custom map showing Purpletowns and red-blue margins on a precinct-by-precinct level. It features a three-color cloth foil-stamped cover and high quality color reproduction and paper. it is a take on contemporary (mostly) small-town America that casts an unflinching yet hopeful view on the troubled state of our culture and democracy."