This copy is printed on Hahnmuhle paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book consists of an erotic story in which part of the text has red type outlining a penile shape rising and falling as the tale proceeds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an erotic illustrated novel that begins with juvenille, masculine, sexual awaking and continues through first romance and then to sexual fantasies. The book was written by Crombie and the slipcase, available only in the special edition, was designed by Bourne. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover depicts colored, tautologic text of the title. The images in the book depict a side view of a face over the passage of time. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the second edition of a book with the same title printed letterpress in 1988. Crombie describes the history of the neighborhood and the artists and writers who lived there. He provides the history of printing by the Kickshaws Press whose shop was initially housed in Montparnasse. The Press was closed in 1994 but Crombie still retains a small shop in another location in Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book describes the history of the street on which Kickshaws Press is located, the only English language small press operating in Paris. This version of the book is printed on Arches rag paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Most Kickshaws books have small illustrations by Sheila Bourne and many words by John Crombie. This is the reverse: it has only one word, the salutation 'hello', which can become any number of maledictions if the letters are scrambled, and full-page illustrations. Presented as series of nine coloured letterpress prints on BFK Rives paper using a treadle platen press. Stored in John Crombie box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In the preface, Crombie states, "These rhymes were concocted as a pretext for a sequence of fantastical creatures inspired and printed from patterned vinyl wallpaper. " -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book consists of a visual biography on "Tom, Dick and Harry" intermingled with "Dick and Jane," combinations of names well known to the American public. The illustrations by Sheila Bourne depicting their lives are based upon letraset pictograms ending in an automobile accident that leaves Jane and Dick wheelchair-bound. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Words relating to love are hidden in varied lines of letters with differing size and style typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text prints (with help from Pagemaker) Molly Bloom's monologue from Ulysses, compressed, with apologies to James Joyce! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages are designed to appear like embroidered quilts. The funny, macabre story is about Mary Ann who becomes a veritable human human torch as the tale unravels. The illustations and typography are both plays on the ideas of quilt-making. So named because each sheet looks like an old fashioned, cross-stitched sampler. It is about Mary Ann, born 1909. We meet her on the first page surrounded by dozens of cross-stitched pictures which later reappear as her gloomy story unfolds. They include a flatiron, a goat, a pig, a sinister man on a bicycle, etc., in a wide range of pastel colours: black is absent until her obituary on the last page. From her life and hard times, Mary Ann could have appropriately been called Calamity Jane but while her tale is desperate, its telling and illustrating is a frivolous delight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was designed by writing comments to letraset logographs on the recto of each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This copy of the book was printed on art board. The Sackner Archive also holds the deluxe edition that was printed on Rives et Arches. The words are adapted from "Du Cote de chez Swann" by Marcel Proust. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This copy of the book was printed on Rives et Arches. The Sackner Archive also holds the ordinary edition that was printed on art board. The words are adapted from "Du Cote de chez Swann" by Marcel Proust. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.