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Illustrated book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 460 Collections and/or Records:

Physical Language Laboratory: Exquisite House. No.7 / Leda Black., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31328-32804
Scope and Contents

The pages are cut in the shape of a simplified house. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Poems from a Tea Journal / Berry, Jake ; Berry, Ginger., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-41131-43112
Scope and Contents

The poems were composed by Jake Berry and the visuals by Ginger Berry, his sister-in-law. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Prevailing Winds / Forster, Clare Chanler., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-11256-11471
Scope and Contents

Poem relates to a man with whom Forster shared studio space and had a love-hate relationship. Includes six pages of photocopied colored prints with realistic and abstract images collaged to the page that illustrate the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Prospero Poets: Does that Hurt?. No.7 / Andrew Motion ; Rigby Graham., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-27907-29047
Scope and Contents

The theme of the book and its illustrations is the pain to a child caused by a bee-sting to the scalp. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Prospero Poets: Football. No.9 / Ted Hughes ; Christopher Battye., 1995

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Identifier: CC-27908-29049
Scope and Contents

This book is printed in vivid colors on Scottish Mellotex paper which has an extremely glossy surface. Ted Hughes was a Poet Laureate of Great Britain in 1984 and the book was produced as a tribute to him on his 65th birthday. The poem deals with his father's love of football; the illustrations are reminiscent of comic strip art. The accompanying print on a dull finish card is a repetition of the poem as an illustrated broadside. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Prospero Poets: Found Among his Papers. No.18 / Alan Jenkins ; John Griffiths., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-28527-29807
Scope and Contents

Alan Jenkins' poem about the British botanists and scientists, who went to Brazil in the 1870's to investigate the rubber plants, is illustrated by semirealistic colored drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Prospero Poets: Painter & Poet. No.3 / U.A. Fanthorpe ; Simon Brett., 1994

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Identifier: CC-27899-29039
Scope and Contents

The printed image on the cover depicts a visual poem that illustrates the title of this book. The wood engravings are realistic images accompanying the three poems of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Prospero Poets: The Anaesthetist. No.4 / Simon Armitage ; Valerii Misham., 1994

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Identifier: CC-27901-29041
Scope and Contents

The illustrations are lithographed from surrealistic images of several insects and a dragon whose bodies are covered with Cyrillic texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Prospero Poets: The Squirrel & the Crow. No.5 / Wendy Cope ; John Vernon Lord., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-27902-29042
Scope and Contents

The illustrations are taken from detailed black and white realistic drawings of a garden and animals; there are also printing ornaments with optical image attributes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Read and Book, 1998

 Item — Box 203: [Barcode: 31858072460102]
Identifier: CC-31768-33282
Scope and Contents

"Read" lists 18 definitions of the word "read," and "Book" lists seven definitions of the word "book" and combinations and phrases incorporating the word "book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Redgruetz / Putz, Claudia ; Heidtmann B., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29074-30415
Scope and Contents

Bridget Heidtmann provided five expressonist, figurative drawings to illustrate the story. Claudia Putz is the editor and publisher of the Assembling magazine, PIPS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Rough Passage / Crombie, John ; Bourne, Sheila., 1993

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Identifier: CC-20378-20775
Scope and Contents

This is an erotic illustrated novel that begins with juvenille, masculine, sexual awaking and continues through first romance and then to sexual fantasies. The book was written by Crombie and the slipcase, available only in the special edition, was designed by Bourne. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Scripps College Typography Class: Dorothy Drake and the Scripps College Press. / Judy Harvey Sahak., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-27685-28773
Scope and Contents

This chapbook is a collaborative class project which describes the origins of the Scripps College Press. It is based on the talk delivered by Judy Harvey Sahak in 1992 at the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Press. It was edited and arranged by the typography class consisting of Reika Go, Natalie Hamner and Penelope Willard with the assistance of Professor Kitty Maryatt. The contents consist of the correspondence between Frederic W. Goudy, designer of Scripps College Old Style, and Dorothy Drake, college librarian. Goudy wrote to the class in 1939 that Dorothy Drake "will present craft & craftsmanship in a manner to inspire you for good books & for the details of their making." Included with several handwritten letters from Goudy to Drake are drawings of letter designs and a portrait. The text of the book was printed in Scripps College Old Style from the original matrices. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992