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This tour de force of bookmaking, printing and neo-dada texts is the final production of Walter Hamady in this series. This volume is described by him as "The last Gabberjabb number eight and IX/XViths of aleatory annexations of odd bondings or fortuitous encounters with incompatible realities or love, anguish, wonder; and engagement or a partial timeline of sorts or bait and switch or finally, a pedagogical rememberance." In this book, Hamady launches a long polemic against the unauthorized and false statements accompanying an exhibition of his press at the Grolier Club in April 2003. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is the 100th book from The Perishable Press. It is a love poem by Hamady to his wife Mary, filled with humorous verbal and typographic material. The footnotes are presented in a small booklet placed in a library card envelope. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This tour de force of bookmaking, printing and neo-dada texts has different covers for each book in the run of 125 copies. Different old maps are collaged onto the covers and some books have a spine image printed on the book spine (not the Sackner copy). The media description of the pages is taken directly from Hamady's description that is printed on a leaflet of an accompanying advertisement for the book. The book includes a letter picture that incorporates varied ornaments and devices around the number '7' as well as several other pages depicting other typographic ornamaments and devices. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001.Reprints dada-like modifications of notes on typography and bookmaking from other sources in a wide variety of typefaces and sizes. For example, one page reprints "Outline Of Divisions: 174, 'Front Matter'...1. Just about all books start out from an idea. 2. Everything in the world is waiting to become a book. 3....

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Hamady's use of found material includes varying papers and typefaces, seals and labels, old notebook covers, and green cloth from hospital uniforms. Several pages are creatively folded and refolded. The style of writing that involves documentation and a diary along with the inventive use of multiple typefaces, ornaments and layouts are defining examples of Hamady's style. Some pages have a rebus-like in design. This book is a printer's tour de force and one of the most outstanding in this series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Illustrations by Jack Beal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Thirteen paintings by John Wilde and twelve poems by Reeve Lindbergh are interspered in this 121st letterpress book by Hamady. The poems and images relate to the several varieties of apples. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book documents the correspondence between Hamady and Wilde in the form of repoducing 1159 letters reset in type. The two corresponents address themselves in profanity-laced salutations throughout their humorous letters to each other. It is the in the ninth book collaboration between Hamady and Wilde from 1971 and 2000. Hamady writes of the correspondence, "As a segmented evolution, with no determined destination other than the voyage itself, this text and what it represents, could, conceivably, cause a certain difficult affliction to those who preacertain a preference for plot or conclusion...Also the many aliases usually forged from specificities in the lacunae of text will obfusk the identity of who wrote what. Since these writers seem not to care why should anyone else?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.