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Owls Head On the Nature of Lost Things
by Rosamond Purcell
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1593720335
- ISBN 13
- 9781593720339
- Seller
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edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
At heart this is a travel book, a meandering journey through the vastness, disorder and gentle melancholy of William Buckminster's eleven acres of sundry mutable matter. A derelict antiques and scrap metal business in Owls Head, Maine, is the setting of this portrait of its owner, William Buckminster, proprietor of an extraordinary collection of discarded and decaying items, no-longer-functioning remnants of previous lives. Buckminster's world, which includes both his vaunted talents in the local pool halls and his sure knowledge of the seemingly endless number of fascinating objects from his vast supply, are inspiration for Purcell's carefully crafted meditation on collecting and entropy. Illustrated with photographs
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- Bookseller
- Bird's Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2131
- Title
- Owls Head On the Nature of Lost Things
- Author
- Rosamond Purcell
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1593720335
- ISBN 13
- 9781593720339
- Publisher
- Quantuck Lane
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- November 5, 2007
- Pages
- 240
- Keywords
- found objects, antiques
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Biography;
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