Writing with great style and humor, Weschler guides the readers through the Museum of Jurassic Technology and through the mind of its curator, David Wilson, a man of unusual imagination who mounts exhibits such as spore-inhaling ants, bats deploying ultraviolet frequencies, peach-pit carvings, and other exhibits that seem the manifest definition of bizarre. Illustrations.
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Writing with great style and humor, Weschler guides the readers through the Museum of Jurassic Technology and through the mind of its curator, David Wilson, a man of unusual imagination who mounts exhibits such as spore-inhaling ants, bats deploying ultraviolet frequencies, peach-pit carvings, and other exhibits that seem the manifest definition of bizarre. Illustrations.
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Add this copy of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned to cart. $8.99, very good condition, Sold by HPB-Diamond rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Pantheon.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7æ-9æ" tall. Hardcover, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 164 pages. Illustrated with over two dozen black and white drawings and photographs, and one full page color photograph. Stated first edition, first printing with full number line, The story of David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology, based in Los Angeles and in a larger sense, as the title suggests, man's curiosity with the bizarre and unexplained. From the author's reference to 16th century Wunderkammern in the title to the frontispiece depicting Charles Wilson Peale's 19th century museum of the odd and fantastic the reader is assured of a vertiginous journey which skirts, and often ignores, the boundaries of modern science. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.
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Good in Very Good jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Signed by Lawrence Weschler on a bookplate from the Common Reader bookstore where he did a signing. 1st edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Pgs 38-42 have previous owner's notes & underlining, otherwise good.
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New. 0679439986. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--163 pages--with a bonus offer--
