Wisconsin Death Trip

A cult classic since its initial publication in 1973, this is a quietly eerie book of weird photographs of ordinary--and strange in their ordinariness--people, places, and things recorded in a small Wisconsin town during the last years of the 19th century (1885-1900) by photographer Charles Van Schaick & newspaper editor Frank Cooley & his son, George. The text tells of suicides, deaths, crimes, insanity, fires, ghosts, funerals, births, arrests, obituaries, incest, feuds, insanity hearings, and much more. Interspersed throughout are full page black-and-white photographs of a time and people long passed away, but rendered eternal by these images. Offers many hours of fascinating reading! A hardcover reprint from 1983, bearing a paperback's ISBN, this copy was professionally bound by a PA bookbinder in red cloth-covered boards, lettered in stark white to spine. Oblong octavo (8" x 10 7/8") is unpaginated (a(see our listing #017697), approx. 264 pages), with a Preface by Warren Susman & Bibliography in rear, along with a page about the photographer. An EX-LIB copy from the University of Pennsylvania, it contains just a few library stamps & notations in front matter, rear endpapers, & top outside page edges. Else, condition is Near Fine: exceptionally clean & unmarked, appears uncirculated! Very mild corner bumping. Pages crisp & clean, binding strong & straight.

Product Info

ISBN: 039472139X

ISBN-13: 9780394721392

Publisher: Pantheon Books/Random House

Year: 1983

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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