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The Legalization of Cake / McClurg, John Wayne., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-28758-30065

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Scope and Contents

This work is an unstructured, illustrated, erotic, tour de force of a novel. The papercard pages made by Mohawk Paper Mills are hinged in two places to enable the accordion construction. In commemts pn the internet, McClurg states tha it took 15 hours to assemble one copy. The covers are thick cardboard. There are 15 pages that have typewritten texts and the remainder are handwritten. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1976

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 hard cover book + (accordion) + pages (offset, ink additions, graphite additions, crayon additions, painted additions) + page (collaged, paper, staple) + folded pamphlet (208 pages)) ; 22.8 x 29.3 x 12.8 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

Item in cataloguing queue EE 4/10/23 Sackner Location: guest room bookshelf

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Greenleaf, Wisconsin : John McClurg. Signed by: John W. McClurg July 19,77 (l.r.- title page). Inscription: this copy of cake is For my friend Dick Kempe. Nationality of creator: American. General: About 85 total copies. About 11 number copy. General: Added by: RED; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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