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Conventional fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1175 Collections and/or Records:

[Letter to Barrie Mackinnon [bp Nichol], Joy, Sharon nd Charlie] / bissett, bill., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-23231-23670
Scope and Contents

Letter concerns the potential sale of 36 issues of "Fascist Court" of Blewointment Press and a plea to buy them. The verso is a typed piece of fiction regarding an ice hockey game. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Lettre d'une Inconnue, 1992

 Item — Box 172: [Barcode: 31858072459211]
Identifier: CC-28633-29931
Scope and Contents

This work consists of 15 sheets, 17.9 x 81.2 cm conjoined to form a single scroll backed with purple cotton fabric. It is read as a continous work from top to bottom and printed with conventional typography (14-point Times Roman). The handmade lead storage container is decorated with gold wire. Mutel states that the lead box is about memory and inside the box we can find the whole life of the unknown woman going and going like a river. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Light Letters Box of Flotsam and Jetsam / Dellafiora, David, editor., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-48329-69354
Scope and Contents

This piece is the result of a project carried out by elementary students. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

List #4: bp Nichol: a ranging / Room 3o2 Books ; Nichol bp ; Nichol E ; Nichol S ; Clark TA ; curry jw ; Miki R ; O'Huigin S ; Riddell J ; Laba M ; Essary L ; Truhlar R ; Ross S ; Aylward D ; Barreto-Rivera R ; Basmajian S ; Claire P ; Cobbing B ; Dutton P ; Dudley M ; Gilbert G ; Harris DW ; lefler P ; McCaffery S ; levy da ; Nations O ; Schafer RM ; Shikatani G ; Phillips MJ ; Smith S ; Suknaski A ; Swede G ; UU D ; Valoch J ; Xisto P ; Wade S ; Hood W ; Souster R., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-28998-30334
Scope and Contents

This catalogue provides a listing of Nichol's separate publications, contributions to books, contributions to periodicals, edited works, associative material, and collections of works. jw curry provides a brief introductory biographic sketch of bp Nichol. A typewriter punctuation piece from 1972 is reproduced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

List #7: David UU: No Sleight of Hand / Room 3o2 Books ; UU D ; bissett b ; Nichol bp ; Harris DW ; curry jw ; Bradley Df ; Colombo JR ; Garnet E ; Laba M ; lopes d ; Sigmund RJ ; Simpson G ; Gilbert G ; Hood W ; McCaffery S., 1992

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Identifier: CC-20201-20597
Scope and Contents

This catalogue lists separate and contributed works by David UU aka David W. Harris. jw curry provides an introductory biographic sketch. On another page (depicted in this record), curry mentions that the Singing Hands Series #2 issue only amounted to 6 of the projected 200 copies and only 2 are known to exist. This was to be David UU's first separate publication but he withdrew it in October 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

List 14: XXth Century / Ursus Rare Books ; Albers J ; Baldessari J ; Duchamp M ; Ernst M ; Iliazd ; Peret B ; Johns J ; Lissitzky E ; Arp H ; Mutel D ; Tolmer A ; Tapies A ; Tzara T ; Warhol A ; Picasso P., 1995

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Identifier: CC-28289-29464
Scope and Contents

Lists Lissitzky's "For the Voice [Reading Out Loud]," a book held by the Sackner Archive. This book is described as Lissitzky's masterpice of modern typography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

List 17 - part 2 / Ursus Rare Books ; Jarry A ; Lissitzky E ; Mayakovsky V ; Baudelaire C ; Cocteau J ; Ionesco E ; Rimbaud A., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27256-27763
Scope and Contents

Lists Lissitzky's "For the Voice [Reading Out Loud]," a book held by the Sackner Archive. This book is described as Lissitzky's masterpice of modern typography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996