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The Manual of Compassionate Conservatism

Item date(s): 2000

Joan Iversen Goswell


Pages: unpaged
Size: 315mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist.
Edition: Unique


Place publication: n. p.
Publisher: Artists Book

Additional notes:
A set of three books housed in a black drop-back box held with silver buckles and two woven straps.

The top book (173mm) in black buckram held with a black leather strap. Listing the names of the 401 prisioners hanged in Texas 1-4-1995 to 19-12-2000.

The second book (284mm) "Last Statements" with screw-post binding contains the statements of condemned prisioners downloaded from the internet.

The third book (284mm) "Final Meal Requests" with screw-post binding contains the menus of condemned prisioners' last meals downloaded from the internet.

Exhibition notes:
Exhibition: ‘Small editions’, Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts, Johannesburg. 14 October 2021 – 28 January 2022.

Ref: GB/11668













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