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

The artist writes "This book is a visual manifestation of my musings after a night in the Scriptorium Sackner. It may be read from either direction, or opened randomly. It is given with thanks and affection." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes eight ink drawings, dated 1984, whose imagery and density are similar to some of the drawings in Bar-Bar 1988, also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The main text was selected from Beatrice Warde's 1951 essay, "The Design of Books." The subtext was taken from Bradbury Thompson's 1945 essay in "Westvaco Inspirations." Warde's text on the lack of reading is interpreted in a set of 8 books with each book designed as a typographic reaction to Thompson's monoalphabet and alphabet 26 type experiments. Carothers forms words with capital and lowercase letters of the same size and weight to impart unusual appearances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Gallo exactly reproduced the title page, table of contents, and page numbers of an original book by Paul Eipper. He then removed all else except the captions that once accompanied the photographs of wild animals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Photocopy of unique book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.