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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Printing Poetry: A Workbook in Typographic Reification , 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-21033-21442
Scope and Contents

Book describes the craft of letterpress printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Printing Poetry: A Workbook in Typographic Reification / Burke, Clifford ; Hamady W ; Traister D., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-23163-23601
Scope and Contents

This book was sent to master printer Walter Hamady to review for "The American Book Collector" by Daniel Traister, book review editor. Hamady's response to Traister, his refusal to critique the book, and his reaction to the text is described in the correspondence. Furthermore, Hamady mutilated several pages by violently stabbing them with a ball point pen, reversed the dust jacket, wrote scathing opinions in the margins of the text, and returned the volume to Traister. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980