This book presents a poem by Beckett first published in 1989 as a folded sheet with four pages in a fasimile of his handwriting. The edition size of the 1st edition was 1989 copies and none were offered for sale. This posthumous rendition of the poem is presented in an elegant typographic layout. It is interspersed with ancient illustrations, calligraphic texts, a page of the Passover Haggadah and many reproductions of drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The first half of this book consists of portraits of famous men and women that are created by the author in specific and appropriate fonts. The second half of the book, People of Substance, the author combines type ornaments and icons to suggest a face with singular attributes like fear, passive, nice and money. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The works listed in this catalogue and held by the Sackner Archive include the following: "Prose du Transsiberien" by Sonya Delaunay and Blais Cendrars,and "De laudeibus sanctae crucis opus" by Hrabanus Maurus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the second edition of a book with the same title printed letterpress in 1988. Crombie describes the history of the neighborhood and the artists and writers who lived there. He provides the history of printing by the Kickshaws Press whose shop was initially housed in Montparnasse. The Press was closed in 1994 but Crombie still retains a small shop in another location in Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.