Scope and Contents Vamp & Tramp: Stated edition of 50 (35 actual). 10.5" x 14" closed, 18" x 25" when fully opened. Hand-cut stencils. Pin-registered spray enamel paint on Rives BFK paper. Bound by Philip Zimmermann with an accordion spine strip. Housed in a custom spray-painted clamshell box. Phil Zimmermann: "Spaceheater Editions published Clifton Meador's BOOK OF DOOM during the summer of 1984, in Rhinebeck, NY, USA. Clif used multiple pin-registered hand-cut stencils to spray enamel paint onto Rives BFK paper. The edition was to have been 50 but only 35 were made. Clif did all of the spraying. [I] made most of the boxes and did all of the bindery work. "Clif's text and images tell a tale of an end-of-millennial apocalyptic journey into the depths of hell. When the pages are flipped over at the end of the book, it forms a downward spiral that is very reminiscent of the circles of Dante's Inferno. "Clifton Meador writes: 'The initial impetus for this book was to complicate the experience of...

Scope and Contents Vamp & Tramp: Stated edition of 50 (35 actual). 10.5" x 14" closed, 18" x 25" when fully opened. Hand-cut stencils. Pin-registered spray enamel paint on Rives BFK paper. Bound by Philip Zimmermann with an accordion spine strip. Housed in a custom spray-painted clamshell box. Phil Zimmermann: "Spaceheater Editions published Clifton Meador's BOOK OF DOOM during the summer of 1984, in Rhinebeck, NY, USA. Clif used multiple pin-registered hand-cut stencils to spray enamel paint onto Rives BFK paper. The edition was to have been 50 but only 35 were made. Clif did all of the spraying. [I] made most of the boxes and did all of the bindery work. "Clif's text and images tell a tale of an end-of-millennial apocalyptic journey into the depths of hell. When the pages are flipped over at the end of the book, it forms a downward spiral that is very reminiscent of the circles of Dante's Inferno. "Clifton Meador writes: 'The initial impetus for this book was to complicate the experience of...

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This book describes the civil rights struggle in Montgomery, Alabama and the march from Selma to Montgomery in the 1960's with documentary texts and photographs layed out as postmodernist non-fiction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book traces the history of the Solovetski Monastery in the White Sea of Russia from its founding in the 15th century, to its use as a prison in contemporary Soviet times. The story is documented with full page reproductions of colored photographs, interspersed with texts of the historical events. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A review of photographic book art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme deals with cosmetic surgery of the face, breasts and buttocks in women. Lown writes that Procrustes was a Greek who offered a night's lodging to travellers. He had two beds, a small and a large one. Short lodgers were given the large bed and were racked to fit them. Taller ones were assigned the small bed and Procrustes sawed off the portion of their legs extending beyond its length. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.