Pearl Jam Visuals

"Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest" -Eddie Vedder

Pearl Jam vs. Ames Bros brings together 229 posters created for Pearl Jam from 1995-2007 by the Ames Bros and Brad Klausen.

The book features over 80 comments on individual posters from all five members of Pearl Jam and running commentary from the poster designers -- offering insight into the inspiration, concepts and process of poster creation.

Details:

Bros, Ames and Brad Klausen. Pearl Jam vs. Ames Bros: 13 Years of Tour Posters. Ames Bros Inc. / Ten Club LLC, 2007. First Edition. Quarto. 263pp. including index. Illustrated throughout in color with reproductions of over 200 posters. Green cloth lettered in gilt with 3 color illustration on front board. As New, issued without dust jacket.

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Pearl Jam Press Release

Thomas Wharton's 'Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books'

The book is "a sequence of variations on the experience of reading and on the book [as] a physical and imaginative object," and is packed with little gems like this one where Wharton humanizes the lingo usually reserved for a book's description.

"Corners bumped. Spine still straight, front part of head slightly faded and creased, with negligible hair. Endpapers missing. Minor damage to knees and ankles, stiff and inflexible in damp weather. Sporadic scribbling in margins throughout. Two-inch scar on stomach, some alterations to subtext. Several memories carefully excised, others foxed and unreliable. Otherwise fine."

There is also this timely nugget on condensed books: "For those readers with no time for relaxed, contemplative involvement in fiction, this novel offers a delightful alternative. The substance of its original nine-hundred page bulk has been judiciously plucked, abridged, pulverized, filtered, dried and re-constituted; then this concentrated version has been repackaged in a contemporary and easily acceptable form." I wonder if the folks at Orion Books, whose compact editions (pdf) of the classics which are billed as great reads “in half the time,” knew about this.

This is a book for the book people. A compilation of short fiction with the essence of books at its core. In each piece Wharton exudes a deep book sense and a clear appreciation of books and book lore.


Details:
Wharton, Thomas. Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books. Nova Scotia: Gaspereau Press, 2004. Smyth-sewn paperback with a letterpress printed dust jacket. Housed in a printed sleeve. Text was typeset by Andrew Steeves in Caslon types and printed on Rolland Zephyr Laid paper. Illustrations by Wesley Bates.
Shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award