This book includes a reproduction of a calligram by Apollinaire and a reproduction of a military formation using letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book includes a reproduction of a calligram by Apollinaire and a reproduction of a military formation using letters. The Sackner Archive also holds the first edition that was printed in French. This reprinted edition is an English translation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a reprinting of a book first published in 1927. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Typographic rendition by Dieter Sdun of permutation poem "Chanson" by Ernest Jandl. Stored in Sdun box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Twenty stamp designs are miniature figures composed of letters, punctuation marks and mathematical symbols in varying styles and typefaces. The backgrounds of the figures are repetitive, optical colored typographic designs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue depicts the typefaces designed with the Apple computers by Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans and the origins of Emigre Magazine they founded in 1984. For these achievements, Licko and Vanderlans received the fifth Charles Nypels Award, given every two years to an individual or institution that has made innovations in the area of typography in the briadest sense. This catalogue published to commemorate the award was edited by Gor Rosbeek and Jean Rosbeek. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work suffered water damage to the original portfolio such that a new one had to be made; the printing on the original was preserved and collaged to the new one. The prints suffered only minor water damage at their lower border and not to the image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Joelle Dautricourt contributed the Hebrew Calligraphic cover and design layout for this program brochure. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title abbreviations Com.Mix. stand for Communication Mixture. This book presents mainly typographic images that Kriwet collected from the American and German landscapes, e.g., signs on store fronts, directional signs, trade marks, TV screens, ideograms and logos. He also utilized multiple illustrations of early texts, maps, illustrations, ancient languages and symbols and related them to analogous contemporary images. For example, Kriwet juxtaposed one of his concrete poems arranged as a mandala with an early German poem also written this way. Another category of illustrations are documentary photographs of Kriwet working on his installation projects. Several photographs show, "Walk Talk," a work held by the Sackner Archive. The images are fully documented with notes of reference for each illustration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Subtitled "Combat Journal for Place d'Armes: A Personal Narrative," Symons writes an unconventional, gay, "autobiography" that uses varied typefaces and sizes for the 22 days of this diaristic journal. The envelope paste-down on the inside of the front cover holds ephemera that document places in Montreal mentioned in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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 presses listed in this catalog publishing artists' books include Circle Press, Coracle Press, Editions Alecto, Hansjorg Mayer, Marlborough Graphics, Waddington Galleries, Will and Sebastian Carter, World's End Press and Tetrad Press. Several books described in the catalog are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This publication, subtitled X-Ray Culture, contains six essays relating to radiological imaging as it has been used in the arts and sciences, viz., in anthropology, theatre, advertising, conceptual art, humanitarism and film. The covers and essays are presented with the new typography and design in the layout style of David Carson. A remarkable x-ray of a snake eating a mouse is featured on the inside back cover. The magazine notes that Guerbet is the leading manufacturer of contrast media for medical imaging. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.