In Flagrante Collecto: (Caught in the Act of Collecting) Tapa dura - 2006

Hardback. Very Good.

Harry N. Abrams, 2006-06-01. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2006-06-01. Hardcover. Good. Used - good - dust jacket shows moderate use wear with some tiny marks and scuffs on rear side

Abrams. Used - Acceptable.

Harry N. Abrams, 2006 What do you do with your soap bars when they become too small to use? If you've ever lost a cuff link, what did you do with the one that remained? In In Flagrante Collecto , Marilynn Gelfman Karp explores and catalogues our impulse to collect the incidental miscellanea of the past. In her words There are collectors of things with intrinsic value - gold or diamonds or baseball cards. Then there are a group of people who love the unloved. These are the purest kind. For these collectors, the hunter-gatherers of misshapen pretzels, do t disturb signs, and marbles, there is deep and satisfying value in collecting the arcane objects that most people overlook or forget. This book is a tribute to the realm of those unloveable objects, those that seem banal, common, corny, in bad taste, too familiar, or just invisible. Part observation, part confession, Karp's text takes us on a joyous journey of philosophical musings, cultural history, and personal memoir. Author… Leer más

Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2006-05-31. hardcover. Very Good. 8x1x11. full number line, hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders

Harry N. Abrams, 2006-06-01. First Edition. hardcover. Used:Good.

Abrams, 2006. First edition. fine/fine. Quarto. (30cm x 23cm) 367pp A fine copy in dust jacket. From Karp's perspective, collecting is a calling, not a choice. She examines the impulse to acquire and its modus operandi, describing the essential reasons why anyone collects anything, from ancient coins to fingermail parrings.

New York: Abrams, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. pp. 368, ""According to author Marilynn Gelfman Karp, collecting is a calling; and those who are driven to collect unloved objects are the purest collectors of all. In this literary and sophisticated celebration of humble objects, Karp shares her passionate insights on what she calls the 'rapture of the capture.'""

Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2006-05-31. hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!