Hobo Signs

$240.00

Part artist’s book. Part reference book. A really nice thing. It gives a casual and graphic history of hobo signs, the marks that migrant workers left to warn and inform as they travelled across communities. Think of them as a secret graphic language about survival. Beautiful and useful—and a remarkable show of restraint because it is not set in this face.

  • Author: Karen Knorr
  • Size: 12 × 8.5 inches
  • Pages: 26
  • Binding: Softcover
  • Edition: No. 130 of 150 copies. Signed and numbered.
  • Condition: The cover and edges are foxed. The back cover is a little soiled. Looks like it’s been riding the rail.
  • Publisher: Letterworks Editions, 1983