Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous: Discovery File 143/76

Rotterdam, Veenman Publishers, 2007. Edited by Marion van Wijk and Koos Dalstra. Softcover, 29.5 x 21 cm, 216 pp. Tape binding, colour printed wraps. Contains facsimile prints of documents from the Spanish police inquiry into the discovery (and subsequent theft) of Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader's yacht. His boat, the 'Ocean Wave' was found abandoned by a Spanish fisherman in 1976. Includes a time line and English language transcriptions of interviews which Wijk and Dalstra conducted during their ten year investigation into the unsolved mystery of Ader's death. Minor bubbling to lower edge of first 15 pages, else a fine copy. Very rare.

Bas Jan Ader (Born 1942 in Winschoten, the Netherlands, lost at sea in 1975 between Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Ireland) was a Dutch conceptual artist. When his boat, 'Ocean Wave' was found unmanned and partially submerged 150 miles off the coast of Ireland by a Spanish fishing vessel in 1976, it was taken to La Coruña for investigation. Days later, the boat was stolen. Ader's body was never recovered.