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The author treats the subject of identifying books in the style of a bird watching guide. He illustrated the text with 600 drawings of different varieties of books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Filicornis: A Memorable Fancy / Robs., 1943

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Identifier: CC-28298-29476

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Several words in the introductory text, which are printed in an Italic typeface, appear to be made-up French words. The text in the second half of the book is printed in a more traditional type face and includes pages with spacial layout, text in the form of an eye, numbers which run beyond the set border and use of intervening capital typefaces. All the pages are bordered with a thin blue line. This copy is missing a reproduction of an original water color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1943

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Five Fore-and-Afters, 1978

Item — Box 190: [Barcode: 31858072459609]

Identifier: CC-12905-13196

Scope and Contents

Five names of ships and the names of their ports have been written in green color with a traditional calligraphic style. *WEB 1998: Publisher's name misspelt. Date wrong -- should be 1978. Sackner: corrected. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Fogli di Zona: Testo/Contesto. No.3 / Joseph Kosuth., 1978

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Identifier: CC-11487-11703

Scope and Contents

This is a publication of Zona. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

For breakfast I'll have, oh, two slices of dry toast and a cup of hot water. / Hompson, Davi Det., 1978

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Identifier: CC-45252-47437

Dates: 1978

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

for it not to be worth the paper it is printed on / Coleman, Les., 1994

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Identifier: CC-20798-21204

Dates: 1994

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Found Books: Shorter Stories. No.2 / Richard Kostelanetz., 1994

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Identifier: CC-12289-12513

Dates: 1994

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Four Book / Acconci, Vito., 1968

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Identifier: CC-26619-27089

Scope and Contents This book consists of four major sections. The first is a repetitious short prose piece that reads, "The top is, originally, a tuft of hair, or the hair of the head. The top is the head, or the crown of the head...." This is repeated on the next nine pages with minor modifications to the dense of the piece. The second section consists of one to three photocopied columns of the NYC telephone white pages with a list of brief typewritten comments, one to a page. For example, these phrases include "rank, from the waist up, Beside the lamp, By now, Helen and Charles, hand in hand, David's arm,"etc. There does not appear to be a direct relationship between the lists from the telephone book and Acconci's list. The third section consists of two line poems, placed with a line drawing of a rectangle with content as follows, e.g., "I go where--we go off, He goes back to where--those go back on him." The fourth section consists of brief alternating single lines of dialog. -- Source of...

Dates: 1968

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

fragment of a book that does not exist[CR]fragment of a book that does not exist / Valoch, Jiri., 1972

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Identifier: CC-57285-63407

Scope and Contents

William Allen: One of Valoch's most successful prints - a discourse on books by artists and conceptualism. In Guy Schraenen's book on Artist's Books "BUCHLER UBER BUCHER" (Neues Museum, Weserburg, Bremen, 1993) a special homage is paid to the print - where a reprint of the 'fragment' was laid into the publication. The reprint is on different paper & sized differently (text stretched and wider on non textured paper) and does not have the historic 'actual fragment' feel of the original (& is of course not signed etc). In the catalogue the work is listed as 1973, edition of 9 suggesting that this print is the true first edition (signed edition of 50), or possibly that the details of the original were incorrectly given to Schraenen ? -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

From: Robin Crozier To: Marvin Sackner / Crozier, Robin; Zack D., 1983

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Identifier: CC-19199-19582

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Marvin Sackner responds to the question "What do you remember about 23:6:83?" by stating, "It was the day before our wedding anniversary & I had to remind myself not to forget it!" David Zack replied on the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Ganglia 5 Cent Mimeo Series: an interrupted poem/ in memorium da levy/. No.24 / Jiri Valoch., 1969

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Identifier: CC-36908-38741

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The text conists of a single overstricken word, "now," printed on the first six pages at different locations on the page. On the final page, the word, "now," is not overstricken. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Gemma Three: White Truth black. / Ladislav Nebesky., 1979

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Identifier: CC-28096-29255

Scope and Contents

The text of the cards is printed in binary code. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

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exp/press card: Language Piece (1970): Everything Is a Copy. No.5 / Jochen Gerz., 1972

Exp/press: Continuazioni Continua. No.6 / Maurizio Nannucci., 1972

Exp/press: Don't Read, Please!. No.4 / Jiri Valoch., 1972

Exp/press: Don't Read, Please!. No.4 / Jiri Valoch., 1972

Exp/press: one-word poem - str[i/u]cture. No.7 / Michael Gibbs., 1972

Exp/press: This Is a Sentence. No.10 / Robin Crozier., 1972

Fax, Idling Its Sails / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Farthing, Julie., 1993

Festival d'Automne a Paris: Aspects de L'Arte Actuel / Nauman B ; Acconci V ; Glass P ; Baldessari J ; Petersen R ; Tremlett D ; Bochner M ; Gilbert & George ; Paolini G., 1973

Field Guide to the Books of Hans Waanders 4th Edition / Waanders, Hans., 1997

Filicornis: A Memorable Fancy / Robs., 1943

Five Fore-and-Afters, 1978

Fogli di Zona: Testo/Contesto. No.3 / Joseph Kosuth., 1978

For breakfast I'll have, oh, two slices of dry toast and a cup of hot water. / Hompson, Davi Det., 1978

for it not to be worth the paper it is printed on / Coleman, Les., 1994

Found Books: Shorter Stories. No.2 / Richard Kostelanetz., 1994

Four Book / Acconci, Vito., 1968

fragment of a book that does not exist[CR]fragment of a book that does not exist / Valoch, Jiri., 1972

From: Robin Crozier To: Marvin Sackner / Crozier, Robin; Zack D., 1983

Ganglia 5 Cent Mimeo Series: an interrupted poem/ in memorium da levy/. No.24 / Jiri Valoch., 1969

Gemma Three: White Truth black. / Ladislav Nebesky., 1979

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