
It was a Saturday morning and I just finished my Eng 2850 literature class, and I decided to go to the Book fair. I was lucky I found parking easily because I was in a bad mood since the morning after I had received a parking ticket at 10.01am for $65 and I had put money till 10 am and was running down to feed the meter. The book fair made my mood better. First I had entered the wrong one which was right beside X-Intitiative, but then walked over to the right one.
There were a lot of cool books to go through but the prices were ridiculous..I love a book and wanted to buy it but just left it after i heard that it was almost $1700. I almost fainted hearing that price. But the 6 books that i really liked were:

- ON THE ROAD TOO. BOOK 1: NEW YORK-LAS VEGAS – NEW YORK by Peter Spaans.
I simply love New York. New York always gets me excited, looking at skyline, the bridges, the buildings gives me a new hope to live everyday. And I had gone to Las Vegas this summer and totally LOVVEEEE Vegas. I cant wait to go back and gamble my brains off. So this book was like my perfect book. I really wanted to buy this book, so I asked the price and the lady said 1695, I assumed it was $16.95 but then found out that it was $1695 and I was like this must be crazy. It was a thick book with just pictures and kept in a box with a cover. Details of the book were:
On the Road Too, The deluxe box version. Including 10 seperate photographs. First publised in Amsterdam. Edition 75. All photographs by Perer Spaans and text by Dan Schmidt.


2. Concepts by Katie Tompson.
This was a wierd but interesting book. It was by called Editions Concepts by Katie Tompson. Katie used to keep a diary when she was in high school and college and she had lost it after college. After 14 years someone actually called her up to give her the lost diary. Katie was shocked and got very emotional when she read her words after 14years. Life had changed so much. So she thought to preserve her work this time and made loose sheets with her text in the background and one or two pictures corresponding to the text. This text has a white border and is on very thick paper which a lose handwritten font.


3. Utopian Bands by Mark Harris.
This was another book with a hard cover that opens. The book didn’t have any form of binding, it was lose sheets like woodcuts. These 6 woodcuts were based on the photographs from the “Utopian- Bands” concert that Mark had organized in Beijing. The paper wasn’t trimmed properly and had uneven cuts which was made deliberately in reference to a popular Chinese tradition of “paper cuts” that has many regional variations. The text in the images are taken from each Band’s lyrics or their press statements. It was cool to see a piece like that. Details: Utopian- Bands, 2008. A suite of six woodcuts 14”by 15” sheet. Edition 20. Box set with DVD $1500, individual prints are $300 each.
4. Iannone, Dorothy. Lists (IV) from The Book of D+D.
This book seemed interesting because I have never seen a book which was screw bound. This was in a showcase and I actually asked them to take it out so I can have a look at it so see how the book was bound with screw but they were not allowed to do so. Book details: This was composed of 21 sheets of padded glossy synthetic white plastic and they had black Iannone’s characteristics design printed on it. Each sheet was hole- punched and screw ring bound. Limited to 30 editions.


5. Yasumasa Morimura- On Selfportrait Through the Looking Glass.
Self-portrait was a living experimentation of Yasumasa in which she attempted to shift herself into the Kingdom of art. The packaging of this book blew me away and that bronze sculpture you get with the book actually attracted me with that eye in the center of the hand. This was a limited edition of 60 luxury boxes with a choice of 1 original color print of 2 different images, a bronze sculpture with a book (hardcover) all came in a handmade black velvet box with grey and red velvet lining. The presentation of this whole box with the book was amazing. This special edition was $3700.
6. This was not a book but just paintings. I was very shocked to see this piece of art in the gallery. It made me missssssssssss home. He has paintings of all Hindu Gods and was telling another woman, how and where he got these paintings from. I was shocked to see the prices because we can buy very similar paintings to the ones he had for maybe 2-3% of the price he had them for. He was charging about $600-$1200, for his paintings and this one in the picture was $895. He was telling us how rare these are and the villages he has traveled to in India where he found these. I was just nodding my head and agreeing to whatever he was saying but they are really ripping people off by selling those paintings for that much money.
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