Stigmata

THE TEXT
Stigmata is an eclectic combination of short fiction, essays, poetry, prose poems, film scholarship, art and wood engravings.

It features essays on vampire files from Lane Roth and Robin Wood as well as an excellent dissection of the cold war philosophy as portrayed in science fiction films in Susan Sontag's masterful essay. Each essay is illustrated with stills from the films. Long out of print, the exxay by Henry Miller, "The Staff of Life," gives his reasons why you cannot find good bread in America. James Baldwin discusses American ex-patriets in his essay "The New Lost Generation," while in "Nabuti: Warm Welcome to a U.N. Committee," Patricia Highsmith details, in progressive horrific detail, what happens in a fictional African country. More stories, from Cynthia Asquith, John Collier, Sutton Breiding, Thomas Wiloch, and others abound.

THE ART
The showcase of this book is the Nyctalope-era art of Harry O. Morris and Dennis Tiani, whose photo-collages and delicate pen and ink work, respectively, reach glorious perfection in these pages. Of also interest are two masters of the woodcut: Fritz Eichenberg and Lynd Ward who are given over 25 pages of finely textured wood engravings.

Limited to 300 copies

Signed copy signed by G. Sutton Breiding, Harry O. Morris, Denis Tiani, Thomas Wiloch, and Jerad Walters

From Centiped's website:

Our first publication, this large 8 × 12 book includes fiction by Patricia Highsmith, Robert Coover, Cynthia Asquith; essays by Henry Miller, Robin Wood, James Baldwin; art byHarry O. Morris, Thomas Wiloch, Denis Tiani, Fritz Eichenberg, Lynd Ward; poetry, film essays, film stills, and a lot more.

• Limited to 300 copies.
• Short stories by Robert Coover, John Collier, Donald Barthelme, Patricia Highsmith, Thomas Wiloch, and others.
• Essays by Henry Miller, James Baldwin, Robin Wood, Susan Sontag, and Lane Roth.
• Poetry by Louise Bogan and G. Sutton Breiding.
• Artwork by Denis Tiani, Harry O. Morris, Lynd Ward, and others.
• Oversize book with black cloth and four-color frontispiece.
• Original book price: $150.
• Published October 2001.
• ISBN 0-9712051-0-8.

The copy we have includes the original Prospectus, a 30 page pamphlet (6.5x10), survey and envelope

In, addition the edge does have some of the cloth torn as pictured below, as you can see, it does not affect the display/front of book.