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This exhibition was curated by Jack M. Ginsberg and David M. Paton and was divided into two sections: International Artists' Books and Book-Objects and South African Artists' Books and Book-Objects. Ginsberg contributed a personal essay on collecting artists' books and the nature of the book. A bibliography, complete index and a list of exhibitions are included. The catalogue consists of an annotated listing of books and book objects without illustrations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was published for the exhibition held at the Grolier Club in New York from March 24 to May 28 2010. Several of the editioned books in this exhibition are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Sixth Edition, revised with introduction by Banesh Hoffmann. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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First published in 1884, there have been more than 24 English editions of Flatland published. Abbott's text has been described as "prophetic in its scientific revelations of multi-dimensionality." Andrew Hoyem is the printer of this edition which unfolds to gigantic proportions. Images were dye-cut fom one side of the sleeve page as a reinterpretation of Abbott's drawings from his 1st edition. Background colors to the images and lines were applied by hand. Ray Bradbury has provided an introduction to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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First published in 1884, there have been more than 24 English editions of Flatland published. Abbott's text has been described as "prophetic in its scientific revelations of multi-dimensionality." Andrew Hoyem is the printer of this edition which unfolds to gigantic proportions. Images were dye-cut fom one side of the sleeve page as a reinterpretation of Abbott's drawings from his 1st edition. Background colors to the images and lines were applied by hand. Ray Bradbury has provided an introduction to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is published as a sequel to "Flatland" by Edwin Abbott Abbott, published in 1884, in which all the inhabitants are two dimensional. Stewart, who is a professor of mathematics, created this contemporary guide of a journey through Mathiverse. His main character, Victoria Line, explores the "present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time and matter and modern geometrics and their applications." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The presses are listed alphabetically and include works from Arion Press, Black Sun Press, Gehenna Press, Kaldewey Press and Mutel Art Books. A detailed description of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Didier Mutel is included. The Sackner Archive holds both the English and French version of this extraordinary book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive purchased a book on Kabalah from this sale (item 159). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes annotated archive of Robert Duncan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Book blurb: Pataphysics may be best known as the occupation of a murder victim in the Beatles' song, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". We learn that "Joan was quizzical studied pataphysical science in the home Late night all alone with a test tube oh, oh-oh-oh." Alfred Jarry, who probably founded the Dada movement as well as the Theater of the Absurd, invented the science of imaginary solutions around the close of the nineteenth century. Pataphysica collects the thoughts of contemporary pataphysicists, pataphysicians, and scholars. They awaken the discipline for our century while writing on subjects as diverse as the Theater of Pure Form, baseball, minute measurement, laughter, language, and the infinite sphere.This book references Davis Daniels' work at the Sackner web site. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author "constructs the repertory of motifs and devices, and the system of relations and differences, shared by a particular class of texts" in postmodern fiction. This is an excellent reference source for examples of postmodernist fiction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This copy is the first edition, first printing.Amazon.com Review: The product of an agreeably dotty cleric named Edwin Abbott Abbott and first published in 1884, Flatland distills all that the Victorian era knew of higher mathematics--and then some--into a witty, complex novel of ideas.Ian Stewart, the author of the equally witty sequel, Flatterland--which adds to Abbott's store of science the key discoveries made since--does a superb job of explaining the original book's enigmas, allusions, ironies, implausibilities, and what Douglas Hofstadter would call "metamagical themas." Among other things, Stewart comments on Abbott's comments on such things as the nature/nurture controversy, the fourth dimension and beyond, the role of multidimensional spaces in economic systems, infinite series and perfect squares, celestial mechanics, and other matters close to the hearts of cosmologists and science buffs alike. Stewart's notes make an entertaining and learned addition to an already...