SOWA'S ARK: AN ENCHANTED BESTIARY; Foreword by Nick Bantock
by Sowa, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket
- ISBN 10
- 0811814157
- ISBN 13
- 9780811814157
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1996. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. Michael Sowa. Charcoal Gray Folio 9 in. x 8 1/2 in. LIght shelfwear to jacket.
"Sowa's Ark showcases the fantastic, off-kilter imagination of artist Michael Sowa, where pigs gaze distractedly from telephone wires, and genteel ducks remove their bathrobes before swan-diving into the water..." (DJ notes, rear panel). 72 pp. "In a cross between Magritte and The Far Side, Sowa's Ark showcases over forty playfully macabre images that evoke the absurdity of language and of life."
"Sowa's Ark showcases the fantastic, off-kilter imagination of artist Michael Sowa, where pigs gaze distractedly from telephone wires, and genteel ducks remove their bathrobes before swan-diving into the water..." (DJ notes, rear panel). 72 pp. "In a cross between Magritte and The Far Side, Sowa's Ark showcases over forty playfully macabre images that evoke the absurdity of language and of life."
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85337
- Title
- SOWA'S ARK: AN ENCHANTED BESTIARY; Foreword by Nick Bantock
- Author
- Sowa, Michael
- Illustrator
- Michael Sowa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0811814157
- ISBN 13
- 9780811814157
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco, CA
- Date Published
- 1996
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
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- Folio
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...