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 for one another as way to warn and inform as they travel 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