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Greg Curnoe made the line drawings and David McFadden wrote the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Hoffmeister made the illustrations and dust jacket for the book. The original collage for the iIlustration, "Vote for Kamerfield," that is reproduced on page 173 of the novel is held by the Sackner Archive. This translation is based upon the Czechoslavakian version published in 1959. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Woodcut illustrations by Jacques Hnizdovsky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Luciano Caruso and Sonia Puccetti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the second edition of the book that was first published by Divers Press in 1955 in a tirage of 200 copies. Jess contributed 22 paste-ups and the cover illustration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The artist aka Luigi Serafini writes the text in a flowing yet indecipherable script and illustrates it with vibrantly colored pictures of fantastic creatures, plant life, and machines. This is an extremely unusual presentation for a trade edition book.The Codex is divided into eleven chapters, partitioned into two sections. The first section appears to describe the natural world, dealing with flora, fauna, and physics. The second deals with the humanities, the various aspects of human life: clothing, history, cuisine, architecture and so on. Each chapter seems to treat a general encyclopedic topic. The topics of each separate chapter are as follows: "¢The first chapter describes many alien types of flora: strange flowers, trees that uproot themselves and migrate, etc."¢The second chapter is devoted to the fauna of this alien world, depicting many animals that are surreal variations of the horse. The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the...

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This exhibition was centered on Dabloids, foot-shaped characters of all sizes and colors who emerge magically from the Dablus, a sausage-like object that appeared one misty morning in the fields of a collective farm in Russia. Tishkov's drawings and books recount the history of the Dablus and Dabloids. The Sackner Archive holds Tishkov's book, "Gazelles." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was centered on Dabloids, foot-shaped characters of all sizes and colors who emerge magically from the Dablus, a sausage-like object that appeared one misty morning in the fields of a collective farm in Russia. Tishkov's drawings and books recount the history of the Dablus and Dabloids. The Sackner Archive holds Tishkov's book, "Gazelles." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Hoffmeister made the illustrations and dust jacket for the book. The original collage for the iIlustration, "Vote for Kamerfield," that is reproduced on page 189 of the novel is held by the Sackner Archive. In this book, Jules Verns is designated as Julius Verne. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A cover blurb from The Cucago Tribune states " Tishkov is a moralist who seeks to teach through art instead of religion." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The illustrations and jacket design in this book were modified from Dore by Werner Pfeiffer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents San Francisco Chronicle Review: Creative people who don't write sometimes enjoy a honeymoon with the press -- right up until they put pen to paper. It happened with Madonna. She used to give interviews saying what an old-fashioned girl she really was at heart, how all she'd really like to do was find a nice writer and settle down. Consequently, she barely ever saw a bad review -- until she made the mistake of writing her first book. Critics promptly saw they'd been kidding themselves all along, and they turned on her. So when word got around that the visionary California painter and book artist Sandow Birk was not just illustrating but co-writing a new adaptation of Dante's "Divine Comedy," some of us who cherish his work feared the worst. Sure, he could concoct historical canvases, sketches and propaganda posters about a bloody civil war between San Francisco and Los Angeles, as he did with "In Smog and Thunder: Historical Works From the Great War of the Californias." And OK, he...