Broken Bottle! Broken Dreams! (Hand-Numbered).
New York: Self-published, circa 2005. First Edition. Octavo. Hand-numbered in black marker to rear cover (21/25). An early example of Dash Snow's neo-Dada aesthetic; perhaps most effective when he approached the photocopy bed as his canvas (cf. Zine Masters of the Universe). With Broken Bottle! Broken Dreams!, Snow collages the libertine Polaroids through which he chronicled the Downtown scene with underworld imagery from 20th century pulps and sensational press clippings of John Wayne Gacy, the Menendez Brothers, and Rod Ferrell's 1990s vampire cult. All of these elements richly layered with vertiginous graphical elements. A low-fi concert of turn-of-the-century decadence. Contents: [36] color xerox pages; stapled, unlike his more perishable elastic band bindings. A fine copy, save for minor scuffing to the self-wrappers, composed with a stunning cover design. Scarce, with no OCLC records located.
Item #31181
Price: $4,500.00