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HOUSE OF COATES - SIGNED BY ALEC SOTH
(SOTH, ALEC). Zellar, Brad & Alec Soth. Afterword by J.K. Bergen. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2014. First Edition Thus. 8vo. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. 144pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Hans Seeger. "In House of Coates, writer Brad Zellar pieces together the story of legendary recluse Lester B. Morrison. Working from a handful of encounters and contradictory conversations, a sketchy paper trail and often confounding interviews with individuals who may or may not have been "associates" of Morrison (including Morrison's former collaborator Alec Soth), Zellar attempts to reconstruct one episode from Morrison's decidedly episodic life. In the winter of 2011, Zellar finally crossed paths with his evasive subject, and was with Morrison's permission granted access to the results of a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test that Morrison submitted to in August of 2009, along with the administrating psychiatrist's copious notes. Finally, in late December of last year, Zellar received in the mail a duct-taped shoebox marked "PERISHABLE" containing almost two hundred photographs that Morrison termed "disposable documents of the approximate period in question". From these raw materials designer Hans Seeger has assembled a book that Morrison himself has pronounced, "probably close enough to what might or might not have happened, and that's as much as I've learned to expect from the so-called real world". A brand new, pristine example of the 2014 first Coffee House Press trade edition of this quirky document featuring an afterword by J.K. Bergen not present in the 2012 Little Brown Mushroom version additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Alec Soth" in black ink on the title page. 1-56689-370-4 Inventory Number: 024715