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Found in 249 Collections and/or Records:
Oh Please Do Not Kiss Me / Anonymous., 1984
Oh Please Do Not Kiss Me / Anonymous., 1984
Old Negatives: four verse sequences, 1989
On the last page is a poem in which each line has a different color. It reads THE GRAVE COLOURS OF EARTH - BRIGHTEN TOWARD - AN - OPEN BOOK - OF - LIGHT UNSTAINED - BY - WORD. The Sackners visited Gray in September 2004 and saw this poem as a wall embroidery (done by a friend) hanging on a wall in his library. Both the cover of the book and the dust jacket were designed by Gray. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Old Thames Barges [Christmas Card] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995
On Trademarks / Consuegra, David., 1963
Trademarks are beautifully printed in color one to a page, separated by tissue guards and preceded by a short explanation. Consuegra explains the "why" of structure & color of each mark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Openings Press Card Series: Bestiary. No.6 / John Furnival., 1969
This card is depicted in Furnival's "Lost for Words" (2011) page 15. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Openings Press Card Series: Bestiary. No.6 / John Furnival., 1969
This card is depicted in Furnival's "Lost for Words" (2011) page 15. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Order Is Repetition / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1989
The poem reads, "Order in repetition [printed in black] - as in rat-a-tat [printed in red]." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Oxford Pubs Past and Present / Claire, Paula ; Spencer, Isabelle., 1981 - 1991
The poem is by Claire (composed in 1981) and the calligraphy by Spencer. Isabelle Spencer (1924-2011) was a teacher in the British school system and a calligrapher. The other copy of this book is owned by Paula Claire. The poem is in the poetic style of naming ships by Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Paste Book Number One: Linda Linda Linda / Depew, Wally., 1985
The suite of 26 collages with the first title [Paste Book Number One] are stored in a single folder. Linda Bandt was Wally Depew's wife. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Pastoral , 1996
This is a purely textural work in two colors, each letter of the words alternates as green or blue. This serves as a metaphor for the contrast of liberty and death in the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
pdqb: First Pumpkin Day. No.102/Oct / Geof Huth., 2004
This is the menu for a dinner using pumpkins as celebrated by the Huth household. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
pdqb: First Sweet Potato Day. No.104/Jan / Geof Huth., 2005
This is the menu for a dinner using sweet potatos as celebrated by the Huth household. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
pdqb: Fourth Mango Day. No.108/Aug / Geof Huth., 2005
This is the menu for a dinner using mangos as celebrated by the Huth household. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
pdqb: nfoldings. No.144/Mar / Geof Huth., 2010
This work was produced for Bagazine No.4 in 103 copies and for pdqb as #144 in 50 copies. The latter has not been cataloged in the Sackner Archive. The booklet is stored with Bagazine No.4. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
pdqb: Second Pumpkin Day. No.110/Oct / Geof Huth., 2004
This is the menu for a dinner using pumpkins as celebrated by the Huth household. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
pdqb: Third Mango Day. No.100/Jul / Geof Huth., 2004
This is the menu for a dinner using mangos as celebrated by the Huth household. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
pdqb: Timothy Kiam Huth. No.116/May / Geof Huth., 2007
This is an invitation to the high school graduation of the Huth's son, Tim. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
PEYOTE / Depew, Wally., 1984
The layouts of the copies differ among them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Phi / Pena, Alonso Barros ; Moholy-Nagy L., 1993
Pena lists his poems in the index according to Mayan hieroglyphics. The letters of the words of the poems are presented in varied colors and the shapes reference the calligrams of Apollinaire. A page with musical notation depicts words in different size typefaces & spacing akin to Mallarme's Un Coup de Des. These points were raised in a review of this book by Rodolfo Alonso that accompanies it. Finally, the box for the book contained paper to make it usable for an H-P computer driven printer.This book might have been composed with a typewriter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.