Aloes Editions

[MASCARO at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU]

Bruce M. writes of the Aloes books:

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>Mortality and Mercy in Vienna - White Cover, with a sepitone (sp?) cutout
>of a young man in a white sport coat and leather boots, walking past
>a door, hiding his face with some papers.  Too skinny looking to be 
>who it might be.  The pages are unnumbered, and the paper is just better
>than newsprint quality.  Truely a charming edition: on the second page,
>it appears that there was a light spot on the galleys used to make the
>plates, because there is a band where the letters are written in by hand
>(although this appears to be the way it was printed).  The title page shows
>the title page from a book called "Murder By Contract", author only known
>as "Griff" (in quotes) with Mortality and mercy in vienna and thomas pynchon
>written over it.  ISBN 0 85652 023 3
>
>Lowlands - As described.  GW picture is also off a one dollar bill. 
>ISBN 0 85652 034 9, hand stamped onto back cover.  
>
>Small Rain - As described.  ISBN 0-85652-055-1.  Also lists printer
>
>Secret Integration - As described.  ISBN 0-85652-049-7.  
>
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>I'm not sure how useful any of this is, but I always wondered if I
>was the only one out there with these.

We talked about these books awhile ago.  I have the *Mortality*.  It's almost impossible to 
describe the eerie effect of that photograph; it actually prompted an interesting brief 
interpretive exchange (long since lost from my decrepit computer archives), having to do 
with those *bars*  or whatever they are in the background pf the cover photo.  Mine was 
brought back from England as a gift by a friend circa 1974-5; he also gave me the 
*Lowlands* but someone ripped it off from me back in grad school.

john m