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Another hypnotic, choplogic, recto-verso, any-which-wasy, question-and -answer whodunwhat puzzler. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This copy of the book, one of 18 was printed on Hahnemuhle paper and the remaining 200 on art board. Several four-letter words are printed within a grid of 5 x 5 letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There are three versions of this piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There are three versions of this piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There are three versions of this piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The geometric letter forms are written diagonally upper left to lower right. The verso of the paper is colored with purple ink. The beginning text appears to be 'gut', the middle illegible, and the end 'ike.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work was a greeting for Ruth Sackner's 66th birthday, each envelope containing one letter of a jigsaw puzzle of the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work was a greeting for Ruth Sackner's 66th birthday, each envelope containing one letter of a jigsaw puzzle of the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The jigsaw puzzle in the box is a portrait of Perec that is also depicted on the cover of the box. The elements were assembled from 99 books, photos or documents related to Perec and are listed on one of the unbound pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book consists of 26 pages of colors and various formats over a large fold-out green plate under cover grey. The word Ulceration is a heterogramme composed of the eleven most frequent letters of the French language: E, S, A, R, T, I, N, U, L, O, C. Ulceration is a poem of an anagram of the word Ulcerations.: letters are being replaced by symbols (square, circle and triangle) of different colours (blue, red and black). The five final cut rules pages are blank for the reader to write the solution to the puzzle. According to Libririe Jean-Etienne Huret in Paris, ulcerations is an indoor game on a text by Georges Perec, typographic design of Alain Roger. Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille, the catcher-Science, 1986, in-4, rel. spiral, 1 f. and 6 ff. close on grey paper, a large plate folded and 5 ff. close on green paper, 1 f. grey. (M.28*) "More that of a true reissue, it's a playful adaptation. Indeed, for the first 200 series, the text is given, but in the printing code, the letters are...

Scope and Contents The email reads as follows: There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP." It's easy to understand UP , meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UPtrouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special. And this UPis confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP...

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This book was designed by Seymour Chwast and Victor Kotowitz. The Sackner Archive holds photostats of collages by Kotowitz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is one of the strangest books you will ever encounter: a surreal excursion into the lost world of picture puzzles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.