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This book has a triangular shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored in Cromb ie box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This highly experimental, designed book, was produced by Crisp as part of her MFA work at California Institute of the Arts in 1995. It features blocks of text arranged in a constructivist manner as well as blank space reminiscent of Mallarme's Un Coup de Des. This second edition of five copies, was commissioned by the Sackners who retained one copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes listing of all artist/poets on Postcard seies including Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The largest book consists of dictionary pages over which is printed, "Anatole France suggested that the dictionary is the universe in alphabetical order. But life does not come in alphabetical order." The smaller three books consist of photocopied colored prints made from found printed text and images collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Alastair Johnston. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book dealing with the Passover song, Chad Gadya, was inspired by the work of El Lissitzky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The book celebrates 21 years of the Archetype Press and relates to the legal drinking age of 21. Each page is a typographic recipe for an alcholic beverage. It was produced by undergraduate students at the Art Center College Archetype Press under the direction of Gloria Kondrup. The Sackner copy of the book is the hard cover limited edition version. The other copies are soft cover books. Interview with Gloria Kondrup, Director of Archetype Press in The Dotted Line, official blog of Art Center College of Design: Interviewer: What do you see in the future for Archetype Press? Kondrup: "Unfortunately, the foundry metal type will eventually wear out, become lost or destroyed. But as education continues the digital march forward, the process of letterpress printing will hopefully remain a valuable technology in the study of typography and language, and conventional printing process will continue through the integration photopolymer plates that are digitally created. I see us moving...

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A love story of two fish-like creatures swimming against the current. The design features water-like marbled paper and a small red cellophane fish on a string. The pages of the central small book turn in a wave-like fashion. This book is enclosed in the slipcase with Dreamfish -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A love story of two fish-like creatures swimming against the current. The design features water-like marbled paper and a small red cellophane fish on a string. The pages of the central small book turn in a wave-like fashion. This book is enclosed in the slipcase with Dreamfish -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A fish story told within the shape of a fish. This book is enclosed in the slipcase with Delta. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A fish story told within the shape of a fish. This book is enclosed in the slipcase with Delta. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored on shelf with Hundertmark material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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By spreading open the cover one can read the following: "lay open this book - and you will see - typophilia - undisguised - a quaint affliction - illustrated - by mesostich - paeans to - the queen of letters." Each double opened page is printed with a different font of the letter Q and with a large stylized reproduction of part of the font. A mesostic poem on each page contains the name of the 27 typefaces, in alphabetical order, used for the letter Q, e.g., anna, bookman, castellar, didot, eva, felix, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored with Archetype Press material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was curated by Richard Minsky and sponsored by the US Information Agency for an African tour. "Ant Pudding," an artist book by Jack Hirschman was loaned to the exhibition by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Esther K Smith was the art director and Dikko Faust did the letterpress and typography for this bookwork by Happersett. The colophon states that "This series of mathematical drawings is based on growth and decay patterns of twigs and the Fibonacci sequence," The books are entitled, "Twig," "Leaf," "Conch," "Bloeman" and "Sprout." Each page of the books is made with additional calligraphic strokes using a progressive Fibonacci sequence page by page to connote the natural history of growth of the plants mentioned in the titles.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.