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.

The author/printer used letters, numbers and symbols to create typographical explorations. "Each page of vellum with characteristic dancing type is interspersed with a page holding a central emblem which is also made of type."Doug Kisor writes in the introduction," Unyielding alphabets shaken loose from their disciplined path gather in new patterns. Moody riddles, shifting the tool of the specific into an expressive sign, their existence indicating a place, a path, an idea, a vision, a collective consciousness. Zoomorphic forms that translate into complex stories, embracing whimsy, myth, and ritual." The small typographic emblems in the book are also featured in a stamp sheet print held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The author/printer used letters, numbers and symbols to create typographical explorations. "Each page of vellum with characteristic dancing type is interspersed with a page holding a central emblem which is also made of type."Doug Kisor writes in the introduction," Unyielding alphabets shaken loose from their disciplined path gather in new patterns. Moody riddles, shifting the tool of the specific into an expressive sign, their existence indicating a place, a path, an idea, a vision, a collective consciousness. Zoomorphic forms that translate into complex stories, embracing whimsy, myth, and ritual." The small typographic emblems in the bookare also featured in a stamp sheet print held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.