This book presents a poem by Beckett first published in 1989 as a folded sheet with four pages in a fasimile of his handwriting. The edition size of the 1st edition was 1989 copies and none were offered for sale. This posthumous rendition of the poem is presented in an elegant typographic layout. It is interspersed with ancient illustrations, calligraphic texts, a page of the Passover Haggadah and many reproductions of drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In addition to conventional poetry, fragments of words derived fom the menu of a San Francisco mission restaurant are utilized. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition of works by American artists dealing with environmental issues was curated by Betty Bright who wrote a critical essay for the catalog. The Sackner Archive lent the artist book, Sisters of Menon, by Susan Hiller to the exhibition. The stapled pages are reviews of the exhibition. The catalog reproduces Rita Dove's print, "Ozone," which is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The fold-out portion of the page has been dye cut with several curved, perforated patterns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book is cut horizontally through the pages and slightly rotated. The fore-edge and cardboard base are painted green.Internet: Sarah Firmin (Dorothy Carr) (1933-) is a versatile artist, designer and teacher, gaining her painting diploma at St Martin's School of Art. Working at the London College of Printing, (together with Francis Carr, whom she married) Firmin helped pioneer the use of screenprinting as a fine art medium in the late 1940s. They have been credited with producing some of the first screenprints to be made in this country, and for introducing the medium to a number of artists including Eduardo Paolozzi. Firmin took part in numerous group shows and her solo exhibitions include the ICA, 1970; Gardner Art Centre, Sussex University, 1982; and Barbican Centre, 1991. The British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum hold examples of her work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Poems were composed by Isou, cover and aquatints were made by DuPont with the exception of one aquatint done by Tasiv. The first 10 copies of this book contain a duplicate set of prints on Japon paper. Two of the prints are portraits of DuPont's two daughters formed from dense accumulation of letters, numbers, and hieroglyphic elements. The sound poems were composed by Isou. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was assembled from extra pages leftover from The Marrahwannah Quarterly Vol.3 No.4. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Francis Butler and Alistair Johnston are the proprietors of the press and presumably the authors of this highly eccentric but beautifully printed visual/verbal book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The tissue covered prints are tied and fastened with two silk ribbons making it impossible to completely read the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book, which is designated 2nd version, deals with Tan's memories of working 9 hours a day in a hand-bag factory in 1977. She pasted imitation-leather onto cardboard. The text relates to a printed book first editioned in 1978 in 50 copies of lists of similar text. The second edition in 1991 also done in 50 copies is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition was curated by Josely Carvalho and Sabra Moore. The titles of the books are: Documentation/Documentação, Food/Alimento, Birth/Nascimento, Shelter/Habitação, Environment/Meio-Ambiente, Race/Raça, Spirit/Espirito, War//Death / Guerra//Morte, and Body/Corpa. The exhibition catalog was conceived as a collaborative artist book by 150 American and Brazilian feminist artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The presses listed in this catalog publishing artists' books include Circle Press, Coracle Press, Editions Alecto, Hansjorg Mayer, Marlborough Graphics, Waddington Galleries, Will and Sebastian Carter, World's End Press and Tetrad Press. Several books described in the catalog are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispo, California, an exhibition curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Pages consist of thin copper sheets. Artist has punched out small holes to form words or markings and passes black thread through the holes to form the images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes essays by Betty Bright and Karen Wirth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.