Scope and Contents David Moss Introduction in book accompanying prints: "Among the many Hebrew letter forms which have now largely become defunct, there is a group of strange alphabets which were used exclusively for Kabbalah Maasit-practical Kabbalah, i.e. magic. These bear no apparent relationship to the common Hebrew letters. They were known by various names: angelic alphabets, characters, seals. They appear on ancient Greek magic papyri and on Aramaic incantation bowls; they continued to be used for centuries on amulets and were, until quite recent times, even written on mezuzot. When I chanced upon the first publication of The Midrash on The Alphabet of Metatron, these strange letters were not unfamiliar to me. I recognized in them the characteristic forms of all of these magical alphabets: simple, straight and curved lines always ending with tiny circles. I had seen such letters in Sefer Raziel-probably the most popular book of Jewish magic. But the discovery of this charming midrash based...

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Subtitled "Studies in Consecutive Word Thoughts," Winkler presents four to five words on each page in alphabetical order, e.g., abstract, aborigional, actors, atrophy and beehive, biologoical, bonemen, boomrang, buttfuckers. A row of capital letters in alphabetical order is printed on the top of each page. The back cover depicts a visual poem by Mike Miskowski. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems are ordered alphabetically with English and Hebrew letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Consists of 21 languages together with Diane Samuels' made-up, equivalent hieroglyphic substitutes for their alphabets. The left sided page has the machine embroidered prayer in the selected language, e.g., "Dear God, I do not know how to pray, but I recite the alphabet. Please accept my letters and form them into prayers." The right side has the machine embroidered hieroglyphic equivalents. Samuels also sent a pamphlet to the Sackners with the English inscription translation to her personel alphabet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author combines the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet with meanings from ancient Judaic sources, Talmudic commentary, Hasidic folk tales and Kabbalistic mysteries with his own original calligraphy. This is the first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each page depicts a duotone photograph of Finlay's toy airplane, glider and ship models. The facing page has a description for the photograph. There is one photograph and description for each letter of the alphabet. bp Nichol was the editor of Coach House Press at the time of the publication of this book. The Archive for this book is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Words of the poems relate to the letter of the alphabet which they describe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Features series of statements on poetics by G. Bowering, including his thoughts on the work of bp Nichol. Volume includes selection of each poet's work as well as a brief biography, bibliography and photograph. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue features typewriter and calligraphic concrete poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue documents the third part of Dennis Evan's major work "Liber Mundi/Libre Vitae." The 26 works in this series represent each letter of the alphabet and cover "Evans' broad range of perennial topics; comparative religion, the sciences, philosophy, and his love of the written word. The project deliberately emphasizes the use of text as a semiological tool of communication and depiction of meaning." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A second deluxe edition illustrated by Jiri Sindler was published in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the third edition of Adler's philosophical texts that proceed alphabetically on the subjects of alphabet, book, colour, daydream element etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This copy is from the signed edition of 250 copies that included handcolored additions to several pages. The book deals with Hock's impression of London and Oxford during a stay in 1983-1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each letter of the alphabet is set in a different typeface and is illustrated by a cartoon-like line drawing by Themerson that is captioned with a bitter aphorism by Russell. The words for the caption begin with Asinine, Bolshevik, Christian, Diabolic, etc. The book has an inscription by a previous owner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains definitions and uses for illegal drugs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text of this work is laid out in two printed red columns with the space between the columns consisting of the title printed in a large bold typeface. The left column begins, "The abnegating of treaties - The acidifying of alkalis - The afiliation of bastards - The alighning of booby-traps - The ambulating of cripples - The annuling of covenants - The assessing of polls... The right column begins with The naming of misers - The napping of covers - The narrating of contradictions - The nidification of vats - The non-processing of plantiffs - The non-plusing of laities... There were three artist proofs in this edition. Bern Porter was born February 14, 1911 and died June 7, 2004. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pages of the book are tabbed with the alphabet as in an address book. The text is printed on tan paper that gives an antique appearance. The images on the pages consist of photographs of an apartment building on the upper left and lower right of the facing pages and a walking man wearing a raincoat. The typographically varing text describes the building and the man. A text printed vertically on the verso of the alphabetical tabs reads, "The views afforded by evenly spaced windows, now indiscrete, may seem a film, and the street, its tireless projector." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Only the right-sided pages are printed and constitute the page count. The titles of the pages are arranged alphabetically. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.