The Marque of the Third Stripe

*Condition: Fine. Cover shows some signs of shelf-wear from the manufacturer, but book is otherwise unread and new.
*Signed copy.

New York-based artist Alexandre Singh's Faustian novella reimagines the life of Adi Dassler, founder of Adidas, in a world of reversed time and geography in which America is the Old World, and Europe a new frontier populated by geometry-worshipping primitives. This limited and signed edition includes Singh's 1080-page “Dictionary of a Synæsthetic Language,” nine Wikipedia-style essays, the original story and 18 hand-tipped color photographs.
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This book seeks to represent Alexandre Singh's multilayered project, ''The Marque of the Third Stripe.'' The 1,100 page book features essays written in the manner of Wikipedia entries, 18 hand-tipped images of the installations and a 1,080 page dictionary of Singh's unique graphic hieroglyphs. The typography is a mash-up of wikipedia styling and traditional, beautiful book design from the 19th century. A bookmark is included to both help mark progress through the 1000+ pages and also to serve as a key to Singh's intentional use of pronunciation notations.