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For The Record

Vol. III: Tattoos of War

Hand-drawn tattoo flash by veterans of the Global War on Terror. This art exists in one edition of 1,000 and nowhere else, printed once and never again.

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At a glance

Title: For The Record Vol. III: Tattoos of War
Publisher: For The Record Books
Format: Smyth sewn with a floating spine, hand stamped foil cover, hand numbered
Extent: 200+ pages of veteran artist flash. More pages than Volumes I and II combined
Edition size: 1,000 copies. No reprint, now or later
Unique per copy: Exclusive flash and stencil sheets, different in every copy
Price: $220 USD, sold direct
Production: 100% made in the USA
ISBN: None. The edition is sold direct and does not go through trade distribution
Series: Vol. I (500 copies) and Vol. II (750 copies), both sold out
Contributors: Veteran artists from across the U.S. armed forces. The first volume in the series to carry work by artists from allied forces, including the Canadian Army and the British Army
Where to buy: store.fortherecordbook.net

Boilerplate

Short, about 50 words

For The Record Vol. III: Tattoos of War is a hand built archive of military tattoo culture, 200+ pages of flash drawn by artists who served. The edition is limited to 1,000 hand numbered copies, 100% made in USA, and will not be reprinted. $220, sold direct.

Long, about 175 words

For The Record is a veteran founded press documenting military tattoo culture as it is actually practiced, rather than as it is usually photographed. Volume III: Tattoos of War collects 200+ pages of flash and stencil work by artists who served, from across every branch of the U.S. armed forces, and is the first in the series to carry work by artists from allied forces, including the Canadian Army and the British Army. It runs to more pages than Volumes I and II combined.

Each copy is Smyth sewn with a floating spine, hand stamped foil on the cover, hand numbered, and carries exclusive flash and stencil sheets unique to that copy. Production is 100% made in the USA.

The edition is capped at 1,000 copies at $220 and is sold direct. Volume I (500 copies) and Volume II (750 copies) are both sold out. No volume in the series is reprinted.

The edition in three lines

A military tattoo is a record kept on skin, and until this series no one had collected that record as a body of work.
Volume III gathers it from the artists themselves, veterans who tattoo other veterans, in their own flash and their own words.
It is made as an object worth keeping: sewn, foiled and numbered by hand, in a run that ends when it ends.

About the publisher

For The Record was founded by Augustus R.A. Kirby, who served in the United States Marine Corps from 2013 to 2017. From his publisher's note in Volume III:

We try our best to represent the artist first and the very essence of something positive that came from the Global War on Terror: creativity.

Images

These images may be reproduced in coverage of the edition. Please credit For The Record Books. Click any image to open the full file. Pixel dimensions are listed under each one; only the desk shot is large enough for print.