The pages are cut in horizontal ribbons with a single word containing "sin or cin or syn" on a page such as sincere, synagogue, cinder, cinema and Cinncinnati. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Contains reviews of ISCA Quarterly's First and Second Annual Bookworks Editions, and Zelevansky's "The Case for the Burial of Ancestors, Book Two." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Steven Heller contributed an illustrated essay "Paper Bombs - the art of psychological warfare." The issue includes "A History of Writing: Non-Alpahbetical Systems of Writing" by Jeffrey Head that describes the History of Writing mural in the Grosse Pointe, Michigan Public Library created by Herbert Matter in 1962. An A-Z of digital typefoundries is contained in this issue. Francisca Prieto describes her three dimensional book objects in an illustrated essay entitled, "Antimatter." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The construction of this book is such that each page contains a pop-up version of a black hole with black and white background and typography. At the top of each page is the continuing phrase "The searach for the invisible requires sustained obsession." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This bookwork emphasizes the major role of television in the conduct of the Gulf War. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The flip pages print the word "help" that also is visible on the foredge of the book. The cover gives the flag signals for the word help. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poster depicts nine illustrations of an unconventionally shaped book by Neaderland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text and images search for a solution to the AIDS epidemic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover was designed by Marcello Diotallevi. All pages in this issue are cover designs for it and are captioned Volume 8, No.2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each loose sheet is folded into thirds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Phyliss Carlin uses a quote from Samuel Beckett in her print, "Try again, fail again, fail better." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Book depicts photographs of some scenes of Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1991 compared to postcard scenes from 1903. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Emblem poem of the 16th and 17th century consisted of motto, image and verse. In the classification system utilized by the Sackner Archive, emblem poems are designated Picture Poems and consist of title (motto), image and verse on the same page, i.e., a single poem which if presented as facing pages collection of poems and poetry in a book would be designated an Illustrated Book. Examples of contemporary picture poems are those composed by Kenneth Patchen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.