This is a catalogue for the first major collection purchased by the Sackners in the formative stages of their Archive. Hoffberg was representing Richard Aaron, the bookdealer who owned this collection. Hoffberg had offered the collection to Jean Brown who did not buy it but referred the Sackners as potential buyers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The exhibition with the same title was accompanied by this set of artist postcards which in some cases represented the book exhibited and in others an independent work. The exhibition was curated by Judith Hoffberg and Joan Hugo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Judith Hoffberg contributes a preface titled "Birds, Bones and Books." In "Joyce's New York: A conversation" Margot Lovejoy interviews Cutler-Shaw. She states that you can enjoy and read calligraphy without knowing the language and that she is "drawn to the more contemporary form of concrete poetry, in which meaning is tied to its visual representation." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

These photographs were taken at a Visual Poetry conference attended by Marvin Sackner at the University of Alberta, Edmonton Canada, June 18-21, 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The exhibition was curated by Suzanne Reese Horvitz and Anne Stengel Raman. Judith Hoffberg's essay is titled "Full of Elegance and Wit, Timeless yet Familiar: Unique Bookworks" from the writing of Robert Lax. She claims that artists books are not containers of ideas, but a consummate experience that challenge the reader and actively shape the reading experience. "The experience of viewing and reading a unique artist book is an interactive experience in which the viewer completes the work, creating and changing emotional reactions to the artist's own." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text printed on the red umbrella is by Robert Louis Stevenson. The colophon is printed on a circular paper fastened to the tip of the umbrella. It states that this edition is dedicated to Judith A. Hoffberg, whose passion for artists' books led her to become the Founder and Editor of Umbrella, a resource for news and documentation of contemporary book art since 1978. Judith is co-founder of The Art Librarians Society of North America (ARLIS/NA). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue includes a lengthy interview with the Fluxus artist, Jeff Perkins. The latter collaborated with Guy de Cointet in performances in Los Angeles. Marvin Sackner is mentioned as giving a lecture at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia for the 10th anniversary of the master of fine arts in book arts and printmaking program. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue includes an obituary of Tony Zwicker by Judith Hoffberg and several tributes to Tony from her friends, including Ruth and Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Marvin Sackner's essay in John Eric Broaddus' catalogue from the Center for Book Arts, New York, is mentioned. Also noted is the Sackners' inclusion in Arts & Antiques "Top 100 American Collectors." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Judith Hoffberg conducted an interview with Emmett Williams titled "Fluxus Artist Extraordinaire." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In the section of exhibition catalogs, "Networking Artists and Poets: Assemblings from the Ruth and Marvin Archive of concrete and Visual Poetry" is reviewed. The exhibition, curated by Craig Saper at the University of Pennsylvania Library, focused on post-war collections that circumvented the gallery system with direct mailings, collected in folios, bound volumes, and boxes of original artists' prints, poems, texts pages, books and textual objects and were called assemblings. The designer Greg Baer was praised for his sensitivity to the materials and to the energy of the collectors themselves. Saper's text becomes an explanation for the captioned illustrations and also a rhapsody on these materials. The catalog has a checklist of the 53 items in the exhibition, "just the top of the iceberg of the thousands of items in the Sackner collection." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Ken Friedman contributed an introductory essay of Judy Hoffberg's knowledge of books and alternative literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.