Mark Alice Durant SIGNED Summer of the White Fox and After Covid Photography 1st

Summer of the White Fox, and After by Mark Alice Durant Presentation copy inscribed & signed by the author on the title page thus: For Susan in friendship & with admiration X M. Alice Durant; Saint Lucy Books, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2020 1st ed, no dust jacket as issued?

Profusely illustrated text generally in decent order, some rubbing & staining to the dark blue sprayed page edges at the very top, side & bottom, spine very slightly cocked, bumping & rubbing to board corners & to the top (including a very small dent to the top edge of the front board towards the right hand corner), bottom & sides of boards & spine, patches of rubbing to both boards & spine, including to the top & bottom edges of both + the sides, large scratch to the right hand side of the front board, elsewhere both boards & spine slightly bumped & marked. Includes a card inscribed to the above-mentioned Susan & signed by the author along with a promotional card containing details about the book. For six weeks, in the summer of 2019, a mysterious creature appeared every evening in Durant's Baltimore neighbuorhood. Was it a biological anomaly, an apparition, a portentous sign, or all the above? The visitation of this ghostly entity prompted a season of reverie; in the dimming twilight, as the vulpine creature darted in and out of sight, Durant reconsidered his own life narratives, and questioned his insatiable desire to photographically capture the otherworldly visitor.

In 2020, as the COVID pandemic forced a global redefinition of our notions of personal safety and collective responsibility, Durant faced his own serious health crisis as well as the illness and death of beloved family members. Durant's episodic account of his hospitalizations and his dwindling ability to understand what was happening to and around him is as vivid as it is harrowing.

Grief, fear, tenderness, wonder, dark humour, and the comforts of art and nature are inextricably bound in this photographic and narrative exploration of trauma and mystical transience.