Michael Lesy - Wisconsin Death Trip - 1973

Based on an archive of photographs by Charles Van Schaick as well as period newspaper clippings, Michael Lesy’s Wisconsin Death Trip tells the story of the town of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, between 1890 and 1910. It highlights the difficult aspects of rural Midwest life under the pressures of crime, disease, mental illness, and urbanization.

An unclassifiable, cult book, whose influence has reached authors such as Stephen King and Neil Gaiman!

This is the first hardcover edition from 1973, in very, very good interior condition! A few defects are present on the dust jacket (see photos). A name handwritten in pen on the front cover.