The purchase and appraisal prices are listed in the record for the entire "A Humument" book. The image of this drawing is a butterfly hovering above a stylized landscape. The poem reads, "intellegence moth that strayed beyond the day - not going to stay which was to go away. - morning is coming. - without my hearing what to do. - "Help me from by beaten silence" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The page depicts a face with a haze obscuring it (Tom Phillips?) in its center surrounded by rows of face-like images that have been copied from London water pipe covers and resemble African masks. The poem reads, "art impulses - the impulse to complete - as the impulse to figure this last image - of dispair he began to shape - a whole volume of secret faces." Flowers Gallery NYC 2006 priced Humument fragments (part of a page) that are about 70% the size of Humument pages at $5,000. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page consists of a center masculine figure on a starry background with two smaller flesh tone figures below. The poem reads, "gentle shining children stand beside you toge - One child bone; the other gravy; - watch them from the fairy balcony two small forms flitting about below." The original of this print is also held in the Sackner Archive that depicts the same image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem reads "made - gone." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page refers to the planets and stars. The image contains a starry sky and four planets. The poem reads, "say it now - say no to a twilight of the planet." This is one of a two duplicate prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page refers to the planets and stars. The image contains a starry sky and four planets. The poem reads, "say it now - say no to a twilight of the planet." This is one of a two duplicate prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Publication of "A Humument" was begun in 1970 by Tetrad Press with a box of 10 silkscreened pages. The original manuscript was started in 1966 and completed in 1973; it was exhibited in 1973 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. The current edition, now out of print, differs from the Tetrad in that several new pages were substituted for the first versions and several others were reworked by hand, using advantages of revision offered by offset color lithography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the first edition of the book. Publication of "A Humument" was begun in 1970 by Tetrad Press with a box of 10 silkscreened pages. The original manuscript was started in 1966 and completed in 1973; it was exhibited 1973 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. The current edition, now out of print, differs from the Tetrad one in that several new pages were substituted for the first versions and several others were reworked by hand, using advantages of revision offered by offset color lithography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the first edition of the book. Publication of "A Humument" was begun in 1970 by Tetrad Press with a box of 10 silkscreened pages. The original manuscript was started in 1966 and completed in 1973; it was exhibited in 1973 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. The current edition, now out of print, differs from the Tetrad in that several new pages were substituted for the first versions and several others were reworked by hand, using advantages of revision offered by offset color lithography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the first edition of the book. Publication of "A Humument" was begun in 1970 by Tetrad Press with a box of 10 silkscreened pages. The original manuscript was started in 1966 and completed in 1973; it was exhibited in 1973 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. The current edition, now out of print, differs from the Tetrad in that several new pages were substituted for the first versions and several others were reworked by hand, using advantages of revision offered by offset color lithography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips rediscovered these preliminary pages after they had been misplaced for 25 years and gifted them to the Sackner Archive. The image has a light pastel purple background with a pastel brown vertical line dividing it. The poem reads:"thing and one thing only wince at recording; and sullied her whole life. was a single kiss on the interesting boy.- Tell me, how deep in the mud must a woman walk before a man walk in the mud - he wants her the dephts. The woman the shallows, and over her ankles. - away with daintiness, - this woman, with her feet and body she had what she had desire of pieces of herself and what an instruction process! - a humument or two." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips rediscovered these preliminary pages to A Humument that had been misplaced for 25 years and gifted them to the Sackner Archive. Recto-verso pages 29 and 30 are collaged with text from the other found pages of a Humument and are collaged vetically onto the pages. In page 30 there are 29 lines cancelled or partially so in scribbles. Page 19 reads:"said the lover, as he produced his own--a gorgeous product of Vienna--and offered it distended to the Englishman. - one of lover always one of - the great Fanny." Page 20 reads: "leather, produced a photograph of a lady with bare shoulders," - searching his bag for the type of the female picture of a completely Englishman's extreme -" A part of page 29 reads: The Englishman wondered opposite to you. Then, lifting but the next moment discovered towards his wife, he put his hand on her a lover had found air of devotion, and said to gamble in." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips rediscovered these preliminary pages after they had been misplaced for 25 years and gifted them to the Sackner Archive. Mounted such that only page 36 is visible. Page 36 reads "The sound. - lamp disturbance - talking trating - hidden niece - time lamp." The verso of page 35 is an incomplete drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips rediscovered these preliminary pages after they had been misplaced for 25 years and gifted them to the Sackner Archive. Mounted on mat such that only page 46 is visible. Page 36 reads "to my seeming paradox. I have done with love--true; but - love does, like an unresonable woman in a railway-carriage, - itself : nor does it ask that others should be crushed together, - to push them out the windows. Such as affection I cannot only understand, but I long to give and receive it. - Pencil the book - ink them in - The verses in question were as follows - doubts chill it much; a touch can can kill it, at a touch." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips rediscovered these preliminary pages after they had been misplaced for 25 years and gifted them to the Sackner Archive. Page 164 mounted on the mat is visible. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Phillips dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." The cover and title page state that this is the second revised edition and is the only such copy printed with this caption. Its has a tan background color. This edition contains about 100 pages in which a new image has been substituted for the original. It was used by Tom Phillips for a reading at the Dual Muse symposium held at the Washington University Museum of Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page is divided into two images. The top half contains two mountainous landscapes. The top one is similar to a graph drawing and the second is a colorful picture of the mountain. The bottom portion of the page a desert. The poem reads, "what of the price of art - twice thirty three thousand eight hundred and twelve - la danse - listen to the sound of the colour of a flower - It is enough - listen" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This image is a landscape mainly with a sky filled with colorful clouds - some sunny, some stormy.The poem reads, "sing water sing - racheotom - sing to the wind to the sun, racheotom the clouds murmured - nifesta ma glishma love replied" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This image is a woman seated at a table in the Caprice Restaurant in London. An art glass room divider created by Phillips is in the background. The table top still life contains a cup of coffee, a glass of wine and a partial dinner plate.The poem reads, "o caprice That girl this evening - good-night needs be over and done with love - romance extinguish, - emotion extinguish extinguish magic - the life of work is a rival sin a kind of mental adultery that would absorb all life" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image on this page is the profile of Toge in front of a pattern wall looking through a window at a blue sky with a red rose. The poem reads, "in silent colour this most rose of roses lives - toge and the romance of romance - closely connect - Here comes the past at last" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.