About this title: For the Postsecret project, which was started in October 2004, Warren asked people to write a secret they had never told anyone on a handmade postcard and mail it to him. This compilation is astonishing in its honesty and creativity.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and may have creases. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: ReganBooks
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780060899196ISBN:0060899190
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. Description: Gently used hardcover with dustjacket. Light wear to jacket, no rips or tears. Jacket is NOT price-clipped. No remainder mark. Condition: Very Good. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 278 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition {Third Printing}
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780060899196ISBN:0060899190
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. "It all began with an idea Frank Warren had for a community art project. He began handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places-asking people to write down a secret that had never told anyone and mail it to him anonymously. The response was overwhelming. The secrets were both provocative and profound, and the cards themselves were works of art-carefully and creatively constructed by hand. Addictively compelling, the cards reveal ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING CO Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780752883069ISBN:0752883062
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 336 pages. A compelling book of the confessions and secrets from the postsecret web-sight-the project that captured a nation's imagination chiefly illustrations (chiefly col. ) (Hardback) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; Second Printing
ISBN-13:9780060899196ISBN:0060899190
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Regan Books/Haper Collins, 2005. 1st Edition2nd Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Dust Jacket protected with a new archival cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. read more
Edition: First Edition ~1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins, New York
Date Published: 2005
Description: Near fine in near fine jacket; board corners very gently bumped at top else a clean tight square copy with no markings in unclipped jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Orion, London
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780752875989ISBN:0752875981
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 276 pp. Excellent copy. Postcards sent for art project with secret confessions. Illustrated in full colour. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Regan Books
Date Published: 2005-12-01
ISBN-13:9780060899196ISBN:0060899190
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780060899196. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, New York
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780060899196ISBN:0060899190
Description: Fine Condition in Fine Condition jacket. 278 pp., many illustrations in color throughout. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow
Date Published: 2005-12-01
ISBN-13:9780060899196ISBN:0060899190
Description: Very Good. Very Nice book with minimal wear. Nice cover, clean pages, tight binding. 100% Satisfaction before, during and after the sale. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780752883069ISBN:0752883062
Description: New. A compelling book of the confessions and secrets from the PostSecret website-the project that captured a nation's imagination. read more
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Description: Fine Good jacket. Large part of the dust jacket on and around the spine is moisture warped-book is unaffected. Minor wear. Text is clean. read more
"It's hard for me, when I read this book (or rather, looked at it) to believe that this was a project with a title and an author. Postsecret is a website dedicated to letting people in the world air their grievances without having the messy situation known as consequence, affect them; that was turned into a book. Flipping through the pages at first, I was more fascinated by the creative cards people had taken the time out to decorate than i was the secrets themselves. Until I started reading. Not only were there hilarious, common and normal confessions (I eat my own boogers was one of my personal favorites), but there were also tidbits of peoples lives that were not only capable of making the reader feel guilty, but could also summon nightmares about your own skeletons. I couldn't even bring myself to turn the page after some of the more shocking confessions (which you'll have to read to find out!) and it left me not only feeling like people feel the same things I do, but that everyone has flaws. I felt more connected to our species in a voyeuristic sort of way. This piece is really more art than anything else; but much more than that, it's a conceptual piece about life. Don't mistake this book for a coffee table flip-through, it may just help you want to post some secrets of your own."
"Throughout my entire high school career, I have been involved with the school's speech/debate team. My particular event has always been Impromptu Speaking, wherein I have had to analyze and interpret a vast variety of famous quotations and proverbs. This collection of published postcards was presented to me by my former event captain during my freshman year. His intentions were for the other Impromptu speakers and I to analyze the meanings of certain postcards and pages. As I read and studied each anonymous heartfelt confession or quip, I began to feel ill with wonder and disgust. Whether the postcard painted a portrait of incest or office humor or public urination or grief, each and every one contained a sense of rare pulchritude that only reality can hauntingly provide. These "PostSecrets" are not only therapeutic, but also artistic in their appearance and meaning. Since that one day of speech practice, I have stumbled upon few books with such an ability to collide the worlds of beauty and ugliness in order to create something radiant."
"Fascinating idea...in 2004, Frank Warren printed 3,000 blank postcards with his name and address and an invitation to decorate them and share a secret with him anonymously. He left them on park benches, in art galleries, at libraries, and elsewhere. And then the whole thing went viral, as they say in the virtual world. I understand that, to date, he has received over 400,000 postcards from people wanting or needing to share their secrets anonymously. This book is his first, and includes reproductions of about 275 of the postcards he has received. Others followed.
Some of the secrets are funny, many are heartbreaking, a few are scary or crude, and others are thought-provoking. Most are evidence that often what people fear most is that others will know us for who we really are, and life as we know it will end. So, we keep secrets, and it is often painful to bear their burden. I suppose that Warren hit a more or less universal need of people to get out from under the weight of the secrets they don't share. This book is the result."
"Psychotherapy for the price of a postage stamp. In 2004, Frank Warren got the idea of handing out blank postcards to strangers or leaving them out in public places asking anybody who wants to, to write down any secret they have never told anybody and mail it to him anonymously. From the response he received, he was able to compile several books and setup a very popular website. This volume had a foreword by therapist, Dr. Anne Fisher. When I was looking over the reviews of this book in GR, some people mentioned that some of them are lies. Probably, but a lot of them were repeated in several variations, so it remains to be proved or disproved. Some notes are as simple as wanting to be an outlaw biker while another one sent in a picture of himself driving a sports car saying he would trade it in for a bigger p.... Anybody who has gone beyond their teenage years will certainly recognize the insecurity poured out in those notes asking for acceptance for what they are, spelling out their insecurities. Or those adults who have missed reconciling with their lost parents: "..I would give my left arm just to have my mother alive to fight with." One secret writer summed it up "...it's OK to be scared and hurt, it's part of being human.""
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