Death at the Flea Circus - Bureau edition

Heading: (Artists' books)
Author: Barker, David
Title: Death at the Flea Circus - Bureau edition
Place Published: [Dover, DE]
Publisher:Bottle of Smoke Press
Date Published: [2011]
Description:

2 volumes. Wrappers edition and paper-backed board edition in clamshell box with drawer full of "appropriate inclusions" catalogued in our web listing. Letter F from an edition of 10 deluxe copies lettered A-J in the "Bureau Edition". First Edition.

Both volumes signed by the author, as issued.

"Appropriate inclusions" comprising the following:

4x6" multimedia oil on canvas, The Beach at Goleta.

CDV of Detective Barker, Trayne bmk

CDV of wayward girl, Lee bmk

Rat-Tail file

piece of magnesium printing plate

glass eye

bird bone from the collection of Sir Wrought

trilobite fossil, 500 million years old

sand dollar

antique apothecary bottle

stamps from the collection of the author's mother

1959 penny from the author's collection

woman's blouse button, vintage (lacking)

original poem holograph on antique paper

two mimeo chapters printed by the author circa 1972

antique insurance policy

signed postcard from the ringmaster

1958 Daffy Duck leaf with Ufos

A mystery indeed – although called for on the laid-in inventory list of "appropriate inclusions" the following items are sadly lacking:

marble

brass pipe

miniature book bound in marbled paper

parakeet feather
Condition Report: Fine.