Item #25739 In Search of the Miraculous: Bas Jan Ader 143/76 Discovery File. Bas Jan Ader, Koos Dalstra, Marion Van Wijk.
In Search of the Miraculous: Bas Jan Ader 143/76 Discovery File
In Search of the Miraculous: Bas Jan Ader 143/76 Discovery File
In Search of the Miraculous: Bas Jan Ader 143/76 Discovery File

In Search of the Miraculous: Bas Jan Ader 143/76 Discovery File

Netherlands: Marion van Wijk & Dalstar Veenman Publishers, 1997. First edition. 4to, 216 pp, xeroxed in b/w and tape bound with black cloth tape into color covers, with color reproductions of maps inside covers.

Artists' book with extensive documentation of van Wijk and Koos Dalstra's investigations into the circumstances of the disappearance of Bas Jan Ader and his boat, the discovery of the boat, The Ocean Wave, by Spanish authorities, and the subsequent theft of the boat. A large number of the pages consist of photocopies from the police reports. Twenty years after publication the work was reprinted in a different format by Primary Information - increasingly scarce in this original edition.

Fine. Item #25739

Price: $300.00

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