Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

Nature Abhors [SIGNED LIMITED EDITION]

Zimmermann, Philip

New York: Spaceheater Editions, 2003. First limited Edition. Box. Signed "Phzimmermann" on back cover of slipcase and hand-numbered 82/150. Square box (5 1/2 x 1"). 30pp. The book itself is 5.25 x 5.25"; printed by HP Indigo on Mohawk Superfine paper, housed in a hand made illustrated slipcase with publisher's corrugated-paper fold-out archival phase box, with cover of slipcase pasted to top, limitation noted on back cover. The woven spine construction of the book is based on a model developed by Claire van Vliet from a form originally created by Hedi Kyle.

"Nature Abhors is about loss, the inevitable by-product and, (perhaps pessimistically) the final result of life and love. In the previous four years I had had a great deal of loss in my life with both my parents dying (one by a hit-and-run car), 9.11.2001 and all that meant for anyone living in New York, plus romantic complications in a relationship where the two of us did not need or want the same thing. This book is a rumination on what loss has meant for me personally and also what I have found has been a more universal feeling of loss since 9.11. Although the book contains visual references to the twin towers, it is determinedly not about that disaster but more about the collateral damage from that period of time on personal relationships, and ways of moving on from that loss.

The photograph on page six was taken by Elizabeth Alderman, all the others and the text are mine. To be read through on one side, then on the reverse. Accordion-folded, each sheet affixed to the next with paper tabs illustrated with segments of spinal vertebrae. The book takes about half a day to assemble each copy." (Zimmermann).

Box protected in modern mylar. Fine condition. Item #50214

Price: $275.00