Books
Dora Lives: The Authorized Story of Miki Dora
- Item Number
- 126
- Estimated Value
- 275 USD
- Sold
- 130 USD to richmo
- Number of Bids
- 4 - Bid History
Item Description
Santa Barbara, CA, T. Adler Books., 2005, First Edition #188 of 500 Deluxe. (ISBN: 1-890481-18-1) 1/4 Cloth Over Boards in Box, Small Oblong 4to, 137pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Tom Adler. With the 2002 passing of Miki "Da Cat" Dora, the surfing world lost one of its most talented, charismatic, and controversial innovators. A legend of Malibu lore since the late '50s, Dora helped to create and simultaneously revile the "Gidget"/"Beach Party" California surfing explosion of the '60s, then turned his back to the 'Bu and the world of competitive wave riding to travel the world, often just a step or two ahead of law. Initiated by Miki Dora himself, this loving tribute to the legendary enigma by noted designer/art director/publisher/surfing aficionado Tom Adler is very much in the same vein as Adler's previous deluxe editions on Don James and Tom Blake. It reproduces vintage images and screen captures of Dora by Joe Quigg, Leroy Grannis, Grant Rohloff, Don James, Pat Darrin, Peter Gowland and many others along with biographical texts by Drew Kampion, Craig Stecyk III and Steve Pezman; transcribed interviews, ramblings, and reprinted writings from "Surfer" magazine (including the full "Million Days to Darkness" from 1989!) in an elegantly produced package that was authorized by Miki's family and estate. A pristine example in the publisher's shrinkwrap from the deluxe edition limited to five hundred copies in a pictorial sliding box that includes a 5 x 7" Lambda print of Dora in action taken from a film by Grant Rohloff, NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Tom Adler with the stamp of the estate on the rear colophon, as issued.
Donated By:
Mr. and Mrs. George Nicks
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