ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa

Stored in Cromb ie box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The main text was selected from Beatrice Warde's 1951 essay, "The Design of Books." The subtext was taken from Bradbury Thompson's 1945 essay in "Westvaco Inspirations." Warde's text on the lack of reading is interpreted in a set of 8 books with each book designed as a typographic reaction to Thompson's monoalphabet and alphabet 26 type experiments. Carothers forms words with capital and lowercase letters of the same size and weight to impart unusual appearances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Text of book repeats title in letters shaped with human figures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Renate Habinger (1957-born in St. Polten ) is an Austrian graphic designer and picture book illustrator .Renate Habinger studied from 1971 to 1975 Graphic Design at the Higher Graphic Federal Education and Research Institute and has since worked as a freelance artist. In 1997 she directed in Oberndorf at the Melk a paper workshop, the "Schneiderhausl", and since then there has workshops in papermaking for children, adolescents and adults. Since 2008, there is an annual summer school for children's book illustration instead. On August 10, 2013, the children's book was opened in Schneiderhausl. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Printed in white, black, and blue inks on black and white paper stock. Wagner was working in a Berlin printing press at that time this book was published and did the printing of his books after working hours. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The font of the letters on the pages has been taken from game of Scrabble. The cover is labeled in crayon as Silkscreen by Miekel And. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is one of the most outstanding, lavishly conceived, books in the Sackner Archive. Only the first 10 copies include the painted folder of which the Sackner copy is one of them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Near the title page, special thanks are printed mentioning Ruth and Marvin Sackner and others for their support of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Mira's typography is reminiscent of the Textos/Signos works by Clemente Padin held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title "Ithaca" is the chapter in Homer's "Odyssey" which corresponds to the chapter on James Joyce's "Ulysses" from which the excerpts appear in this book. The woodcut illustration of James Joyce was made by Tara McLeod. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Every other line of poetry is set in Bory's characteristic experimental typography (as used on the page in the golden typwriter held by the Sackner Archive). Kolar's work, which is different for each copy in the run, is a card with a cut out of a cubist woman placed over a card of the Mona Lisa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book, based upon a fragment of text by Zorastre, has an experimental typographic layout with several interspersed typographic ornaments. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This publication is the last from John Crombie and Kickshaws because of "waning stamina and resources... The book is a stream of type carrying its cargo of verbal flotsam past occasional islands, meandering between the figure-incrusted embankments." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the deluxe edition of the book that is signed and includes an original typing by Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.