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Phillips dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." This fifth edition is denoted on its cover and contains about 80 pages in which a new image has been substituted for the original. The dust jacket color is vermillion. For this edition Phillips has placed his introduction at the back of the book,"'Hoping that the reader would want to meet the book head on." In this essay Phillips describes the history of his creation of A Humument with personal references and mentions that the Sackner Archive holds the original copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Phillips' dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." The first revision of the book contains 50 pages in which a new image has been substituted for the original. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Publication of "A Humument" was begun in 1970 by Tetrad Press with a box of 10 silkscreened pages. The original manuscript was started in 1966 and completed in 1973; it was exhibited in 1973 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. The current edition, now out of print, differs from the Tetrad in that several new pages were substituted for the first versions and several others were reworked by hand, using advantages of revision offered by offset color lithography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the first edition of the book. Publication of "A Humument" was begun in 1970 by Tetrad Press with a box of 10 silkscreened pages. The original manuscript was started in 1966 and completed in 1973; it was exhibited 1973 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. The current edition, now out of print, differs from the Tetrad one in that several new pages were substituted for the first versions and several others were reworked by hand, using advantages of revision offered by offset color lithography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the first edition of the book. Publication of "A Humument" was begun in 1970 by Tetrad Press with a box of 10 silkscreened pages. The original manuscript was started in 1966 and completed in 1973; it was exhibited in 1973 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. The current edition, now out of print, differs from the Tetrad in that several new pages were substituted for the first versions and several others were reworked by hand, using advantages of revision offered by offset color lithography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the first edition of the book. Publication of "A Humument" was begun in 1970 by Tetrad Press with a box of 10 silkscreened pages. The original manuscript was started in 1966 and completed in 1973; it was exhibited in 1973 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. The current edition, now out of print, differs from the Tetrad in that several new pages were substituted for the first versions and several others were reworked by hand, using advantages of revision offered by offset color lithography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Phillips dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." This third edition, as denoted on its cover but as the second revised edition as denoted on its title page, contains about 100 pages in which a new image has been substituted for the original. A brown dust jacket covers the yellow-gold soft cover binding which was not Phillips' preferred color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text accompanying the images is written in mixtures of German, English, and French without punctuation and paragraph separations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text accompanying the images is written in mixtures of German, English, and French without punctuation and paragraph separations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

According to Stokes' WEB site: "A densely beautiful maze of memories, faces and words. All the parts that make it up, the snatches of conversation, the stolen shots, an eye, an ear, a mouth, the intense saturated colour, are held in place by a grid of fencing wire." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Evru is the name takened by Zush in 2001 whose birthname was Alberta Porta. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is Laxson's view of the impact of a nuclear explosion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The images are mostly photographs of portions of the human body joined by calligraphic, shaped texts. Some of the images are solely calligraphic shaped poems. This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition by Messager a l'Eglise Saint-Martin du Mejan in Arles, France. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page of this book reproduces a visual poetic collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Rosenblatt makes expressionistic line drawings in which the calligraphic text is integrated but not part of the images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The loose sheet indicates that this is an editorial copy sent for book review. The title of the book is printed on the dust jacket and is not in the other copy held by the Sackner Archive. The imagery between the two dust jackets differs greatly. The images on most of the pages are composed with different typefaces and sizes clipped from magazine and newspaper articles. On some of the pages, found visual images are integrated into the poems. Finally some pages have solely Pop Art images. "Spare Parts" was an advanced poetic book for its time. Papachrysantou was the printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title of the book is not printed on the dust jacket as is the other copy held by the Sackner Archive. The imagery between the two dust jackets differs greatly. The images on most of the pages consist of poems composed with different typefaces and that appear to have been clipped from magazine and newspaper articles. In some of these poems, appropriated images have also been integrated into the poems. Finally, some pages have solely Pop Art images. "Spare Parts" was an advanced poetic book for its time. Papachrysantou was the printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.