A well-cared-for item that has seen limited use but remains in great

A well-cared-for item that has seen limited use but remains in great condition. The item is complete, unmarked, and undamaged, but may show some limited signs of wear. Item works perfectly. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine is undamaged.

Minor wear. Text is clean.

Minor wear. Text is clean.

Size: 8x1x10; Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Minor ruffling to pages.

Size: 8x1x10; Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Minor ruffling to pages.

Book Quarto, hardcover, fine, as new, in white and brown pictorial boards.

Book Quarto, hardcover, fine, as new, in white and brown pictorial boards. Unpaginated, about 200 pp. No dj. Lengthy introduction, about 4 pages by Kathy Eldon, Dan's mother and editor of book. By the time he was twenty-two, Dan Eldon had led a relief mission across Africa; worked as a graphic designer in New York; studied (intermittently) at four colleges; traveled through Europe, Africa, Japan, and the US; founded a charity for Mozambiquan refugees; directed a film; written a book; started up his own photography business; and become a photojournalist for Reuters news agency, covering the famine and civil war in Somalia. There, in 1993, he was killed in an eruption of mob violence while on assignment. In a world of rules and regularity, Eldon was a renegade, a risk-taker, and an adventurer. This is a collage of photos, drawings, words, maps, clippings, paint, scraps, shards, and trash that reveals his strange and vivid life.

Unpaged. Extremities book & Dj lightly rubbed; sticker remnants top front cover Dj. Photos.

Unpaged. Extremities book & Dj lightly rubbed; sticker remnants top front cover Dj. Photos.

0811815862. Edited by Kathy Eldon. Color and black and white images throughout. Sixth printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

0811815862. Edited by Kathy Eldon. Color and black and white images throughout. Sixth printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

First Edition, first printing with full number line in near fine / very good

First Edition, first printing with full number line in near fine / very good condition. No dust jacket as this first printing was issued. The pages are clean and crisp with no bent corners. Small spot on the head edge, but not on the pages themselves. Boards are solid, and spine is square and tight. Attractive book in near like new condition, with no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.

224 p. Illustrated (mostly in color) with collage. Dan Eldon lived more in 22

224 p. Illustrated (mostly in color) with collage. Dan Eldon lived more in 22 years than most people do in 80y. He traveled through four continents, led expeditions across Africa, wrote a book, worked as a graphic designer in New York, made a film, and became a respected photojournalist--all before his sudden, violent death in Somalia. This is no ordinary diary; it is an astonishing collage of photographs, drawings, words, maps, clippings, paints, scraps, shards, and trash that reveals his strange and vivid life. The wild trips and weird places, the lovers and late nights, the danger and fun are captured in pages that seem to shiver with passion, opinion, and dark humor. Eldon's journal holds up a pure mirror to both the sickness of the modern world and the fragile happiness of the human condition, and ultimately, reveals the accidental beauty that only a young artist can truly capture. From Wikipedia: "Daniel Robert "Dan" Eldon (18 September 1970 12 July 1993) was an English photojournalist, artist and activist. He and three colleagues were stoned to death by an angry mob in Mogadishu in an incident before the Battle of Mogadishu (1993). He left behind a series of journals, which his family has exhibited on a worldwide tour. Eldon was born in London, on 17 September 1970, the son of Kathy and Mike Eldon. His British father was of Romanian Jewish descent, and his American mother was Protestant. When he was seven years old, Eldon and his three-year-old sister Amy moved to Nairobi, Kenya with their parents. The couple later divorced; Mike Eldon is now married to an older Kenyan woman, Evelyn Mungai (Transparency International, Kenya) In Kenya, Dan Eldon attended a British school, but soon convinced his parents to transfer him to the International School of Kenya, which gave more importance to art. In 1982, an attempted coup in Kenya put Eldon and his family in the midst of political upheaval. Eldon witnessed firsthand the events surrounding the coup and was around to experience its aftermath. Eldon joined his mother, a journalist in Kenya at the time, as she was assigned to stories in the local area. Soon Eldon was taking pictures, which were used in the local newspapers. At fourteen, Eldon started a fund-raising campaign for open-heart surgery to save the life of Atieno, a young Kenyan girl. Together with his sister and friends, he raised $5, 000 but, due to the hospital's neglect, Atieno died. At around fifteen, Eldon helped support a Maasai family by buying their handmade jewelry, later selling it to fellow students and friends. It was during this time he started to create journals filled with collages, photographs, and drawings. He often used satire and cartoons as commentary. He kept the journals as personal statements, which he shared with only a few people. In 1988, he graduated from the International School of Kenya, winning the International Relations and Community Service awards. Voted most outstanding student, he addressed his class, emphasizing the importance of crossing cultural barriers and caring for others. Throughout his life, Eldon traveled extensively, visiting 46 countries. In addition, he studied seven languages in and out of school. In the autumn of 1988, Eldon began his year off before college. He called it a year on; for him, it felt more challenging than college. He left Kenya for a job at Madamoiselle magazine in New York. In January Eldon enrolled in Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. That summer, he and a friend researched a journey that would lead Eldon and a group of young people from Nairobi to Malawi, driving a Land Rover across five countries. They found that staying in local jails was the safest solution to security problems, and often spent the night locked up in cells to the amusement of the prison guards. With the information he had obtained on his trip, Eldon, who had transferred to UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), set up a charity named...