Inked drawing of a man smoking as men and eyes surround him. Signed by artist

The images mostly depict animals, although the original frottage in this copy depicts a sailing ship. The original frottage is dated as 1990. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Thing Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It's like a magazine, except that each issue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published as a useful object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

William Jay Smith also contributed an afterward. The wood engravings are by John DePol and M.A. Gelfand is the printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The line drawings and cover were done by John Sweet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A forward was written by Michael Bell traces the life and work of Rosenblatt. Bell writes, "The drawings range in style from the simplest, almost whimsical scratches on the paper, expecially some of the latest observations on the shoreline of Vancouver Island, to highly compendia of signs and symbols, richly worked in obsessive surface patterns." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a reprinting of the first commercial print that Furnival made after his graduation from the Royal Academy of Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem was composed and printed in celebration of the 80th birthday of Bill Smith and the publication of his collected poems by the same title. The small engraving by George Wingate illustrates the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

George Herms was an important artist is the California assemblage movement of the 1960's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

There are reproductions of nine collages done by Blazek in this book. Most copies have the publisher name stricken out and c/o Abyss stamped in; this is not the case in this copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This Christmas presentation book subtitled "On the Way to Little Sparta" was conceived by Finlay and photographed by Robin Gillanders. It relates the closing of Finlay's famed garden by the Scottish government. The sign on the first gate into the garden reads, "Following the authority's action against the Garden Temple, Little Sparta is closed to the public." The second gate sign reads, "Strathclyde Region made war on Little Sparta - Strathclyde Region is no more." The third gate sign reads, "Closed with the support of The Scottish Arts Council." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

From the rear cover review by the National Post: "The question this latest fusion of song, sound, performance and visual poetry from bill bissett is for a human condition ourside the perpetual terror of the twenty-first century..." Has marginalia in graphite by previous owner on pages 5, 8, 26, 27, 125 and 142. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each contributor submitted a self-portrait to this assembling. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.