This is a reproduction of an original manuscript printed entirely with rubberstamped letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is Smith's book number 143. Each line of poetry printed on 8 pencils that act as door hinges on the spine. The printed text on the pencils reads Weaving, Back and Forth, Writing in Time, Sewing my Words, Bowing the Box. The pages of this pie shaped book object are blank and as Smith explains in the colophon, ...the poem is not written by the pencils, but upon them. The binding was devised by Hedi Kyle and is called a piano hinge binding. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The front cover on yellow paper stock has words, "baroni & pachetti" rubberstamped and the back cover "Book 1980." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A worn binding of Plato's book, "Republic The Statesman" was remade as a container for an assemblage of booklets, scrolls, wooden rods, gauze and ancient printed texts. The lid of the box contains an inset, ornate magnifying glass through which a portion of the interior box can be viewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The bookbinding by Gary Frost has a special new, treatment to the spine allowing the book to lie reasonably flat when opened. Several persons who contributed to the design and production of this book also signed their names on various pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

Each page is a molded mask (of the artist?) made of paper with the addition of collage, straw, newspaper clippings, paint and embroidery thread. Each mask fits precisely into the following one, including the one on the cover, creating an exquisite, compact mask book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The authors aka Elizabeth Was and Miekal And. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Nineteen handmade books, drawings and objects are placed randomly within the leather formed feet. the bottom of the feet are hand lettered" Souls that walk Souls that talk." The project was started in 1979; the drawings are dated 1983. The theme of the work is the daily rural life of the Afro-American community including the papermakers at a community center, animal sketches, people and a leather object shaped like Noah's ark. Robinson, who received a MacArthur prize, had a major retrospective exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum 2006. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Exhibition was curated by Tom Trusky. The cover and pages are in the the shape of oversize matches. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This a circular book object has a spiral spine completely encircling its cover so that it cannot be opened. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition, this book object has panels on its sides which jut out that can be moved to and fro much like swimmers use their arms. The top has panels which lie flat as they are flipped, perhaps analogous to the legs. Both text and images are photocopied fragments from books which deal with instructions of methods of breathing during swimming; these have been collaged onto the panels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The scorched, mutilated book wrapped in an incomplete wire grid is Nicastri's visual metaphor for the Holocaust and the Nazi burning of Jewish books. The wooden pine box without nails signifies the Jewish coffin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each except tor the Joker is collaged with images of coffins draped with the America flag containing dead American soldiers from the Iraq war. The Joker card is collaged with a portrait of George Bush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This appears to be a box made to hold Patti's work C-Arte