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Sandra Jackman's book object "Witches' Sabbath" is described for sale at $6,500.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The collaged relief letter picture on cover spells out Tick Tock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Krystyna Wasserman curated the exhibition and wrote an introductory essay. The Sackner Archive lent "La Prose du Transsiberien et de la Petitie Jehanne de France" by Sonya Delaunay and Blaise Cendrars. The books are illustrated on the right facing pages and each artist wrote a personal explanation of her work on the left facing page. Sandra Jackman, one of the contributing artists, provided a travel notebook from her journey to the middle east. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This package comprises a kit of source material given to teachers. The Sackner Archive lent Sonya Delaunay's book, "Transsiberian Railroad" to this exhibition. The laminated print is an English translation of part of the poem with a concrete presentation owing to the inventive employment of typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jackman made an artist book seated on two brass clawed feet. The pages are heavily collaged with drawings and photographs. The cover has metal fragments that include a turning, cogged wheel and spear-like object. This book object is placed within a baker's glass dome that is used to display a cake. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catologue provides a listing of the books offered anf their prices. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition organized by Walter Hamady. Catalog includes reproductions of Joni Mabe's "Elvis Presley Scrapbook;" Buzz Spector's "The Outline of Art;" and Morrie Warshawski's "Patterns of Oppression," all held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jackman demonstrates in a drawing the dimensions of the chair used in the her piece held by the Sackner Archive, The Poet Assassinated, that its basis was Picasso's Maquette for a Monument to Guillaume Apollinaire. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There is no title page to this book that indicates its title. A great deal of the calligraphy has been generated with pseudo-Japanese-ideographic characters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Sandra Jackman writes to the Sackners that this piece was inspired by her Hungarian grandmother who always told her, "To read is to want to know." She hid candy and books in the second drawer of her bureau, where Jackman would forage. "I was grown before I realized that I had been seduced into becoming a reader. In Europe, the rabbis would drip honey on scripture written on slate for the young students to lick off after they repeated the lesson...This early freedom to investigate any form of reading material, to appease my curiosity is the inspiration for Adults Only, a book within a book. My grandmother's bureau is transformed into a dollhouse cupboard and collaged with scraps of printed matter. Its shelves are filled with treasures. This is the centerpiece for a triptych (a style usually reserved for religious images). The front left wing refers to a myth. The fellow with the flute to his lips is from a painting by Perugino. Marsyas the Satyr is showing off his talent to the God...

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The title is a pun on "his;" feminine form; truth elusive. Clio, the muse of history, is the shadow-like figure in the collages. The book containing the collages is supported on the hanger structure. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There are pseudo-German baroque texts running througout the book that spawn figures or heads from the letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book object is the first artwork of Jackman's that the Sackners purchased. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover illustration is "Once Upon a Time" by Sandra Jackman. It is mentioned that the Sackner Archive holds her book works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book includes one fold-out page featuring anterior and posterior aspects of both lungs with collaged, color photographic reproductions, such as faces of children, a clothed body with an eye substituting for a face, and a snail shell. Its border consists of inked and acrylic painted, abstract, repetitive markings. Other images in the book often intermingle collaged and painted, realistic people and animals with Jackman's conjured, surrealistic creatures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jackman has subtitled the catalog "Assemblage and Unique Artist's Book: A story telling portfolio 1967 - 2015. "Two works held by the Sackner Archive are illustrated in this catalog. Ruth Sackner contributed a essay in the forward. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jackman writes at the bottom of the box, "From the old, rare, curious one of a kind foreign unfit to read, non archival book collection." Seven varying shaped collage assemblages are stacked in the richly collaged box which has a lid with a handle made from a carved and embellished pencil. The scrolls consist of hand printed poems on the recto and drawings on the verso. These also include pseudo-Chinese ideograms. As usual, a tour de force by Jackman! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.