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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 940 Collections and/or Records:

Poems 1923-1954: First Complete Edition / cummings, e.e.., 1954

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Identifier: CC-18890-19268
Scope and Contents

The clippings accompanying the book are reviews. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954

Poems l905-l962: An Authorized Typewriter Edition of 770 Collected, 45 Uncollected & 20 Unpublished Poems / cummings, e.e., 1973

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Identifier: CC-18887-19265
Scope and Contents

This book was designed by George James Firmage and contains copious notes about the poems .This is an Authorised Typewriter Edition of 770 Collected, 45 Uncollected and 20 Unpublished Poems Recreated from the "Poet's Manuscripts with Bibliographical and Textual Notes by George James Firmage." This Typewriter Edition is limited to 225 Numbered copies, of which 200 were for sale. Quarter bound in green leather with hessian boards. Gilt titles to spine & gilt "E.E.Cummings" signature to front leather. Green-stained top edge. Beige card endpapers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Poesia e Cosi Sia / Sarenco., 1971

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Identifier: CC-39608-41567
Scope and Contents

This book provides examples of Sarenco's 1) concrete poems (1963-1968), 2) public poems (1968-1971), 3) poem objects (1968), 4) environmenal poems (1968-1971), 5) body poems (1968-1971), 6) black & white concrete poems (1969), 7) Baroque alphabet poems (1969-1979), 8) worded photographs (1969-1970), 9) picture poems (1971), and 10) experimental music scores (1971). The folded sheet is an announcement from the director's office of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam concerning an exhibition of Sarenco's work who will also curate an exhibition of 20 international poets for the museum from February 1972 to June 1973. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Porte - Voix, 1979

 Item — Box 415: [Barcode: 31858072460862]
Identifier: CC-28504-29783
Scope and Contents

An unusal typeface ws used in this poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Ppress Magazine. No.Black / Alan Sondheim, editor ; Waldrop K ; Acconci V ; Coolidge C ; Patterson B ; Waldrop R., 1972

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Identifier: CC-44122-46247
Scope and Contents

A specimen page mentions the following: "The enclosed plates are hand printed in editions ranging from 1 to 240... This magazine appears only in a continuing edition. Works run out, new ones are added. Ppress remains in a state of flux." The issues are unnumbered and to distinguish the two held by the Sackner Archive, this one is designated as black for color of the typeface on the envelope, the other as red for its typeface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Print: European Regional Design Annual 1997. No.2/Mar-Apr / Brockmann G., 1997

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Identifier: CC-27616-28693
Scope and Contents

On page 111, a map of the world is depicted solely with the names of countries placed horizontally or vertically with varies sized fonts. It was designed by George Brockmann for an annual report of a business. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Print: Hoping for the Millennium: A Print Parody Issue. No.6/Nov-Dec / Meggs P., 1994

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Identifier: CC-04743-4832
Scope and Contents

The entire issue is skillfully devoted to a parody of itself, photographers (Duane Michaels, Helmut Newton), graphic designers (Paul Rand), and graphic design companies (Emigre). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Print. No.1/Jan-Feb., 1992

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Identifier: CC-04283-4362
Scope and Contents

This issue desribes cult magazines, such as Beach Culture and Surfer which have used innovative typography in their design. Philip Meggs reviews "The Elements of Euclid" by William Pickering, a 19th century British book designer and publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Print. No.3/May-Jun / Cage J ; Mayakovsky V ; Werkman HN., 1995

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Identifier: CC-04777-4867
Scope and Contents

Book and dust jacket design are discussed in an essay by Chip Kidd. Japanese book and poster design which creates "an anti-traditional visual language" by Koga Hirano is described by Steven Heller. Alston Purvis contributes an in-depth essay with 27 illustrations of Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman titled "The Outsider." Werkman's periodicals "The Next Call," (issues are held by Sackner Archive) are described and depicted. In addition, an example of Werkman's typewriter art (1926-1927) is shown. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Print: Print's Regional Design Annual. No.5/Sep-Oct / Carol Stevens, editor ; Heller S ; Themerson S ; Themerson F., 1995

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Identifier: CC-04796-4887
Scope and Contents

Eve Kahn contributes an essay on the funny side of advertising. Stephen Heller writes on the American Design Style 1925-1933. Jan Kubasiewitcz contributes an essay on the history of Themersons' Gaberbocchus Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

printed matter\ drukwerk / Martens, Karel., 1996

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Identifier: CC-31152-32620
Scope and Contents

This book was first printed in 1996 and reprinted in 1997 (present copy). This 2nd printed copy includes coverage of over 35 years of works by the award-winning Dutch graphic designer, including his essay "What Design Means For Me" (in addition to his partly autobiographical essay). Additional essays by Kinross, Triest, Koosje Sierman and Hugues C. Boekraad; includes bibliography. "Reprinted 1997" (colophon; originally published in 1996). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Printer and Compositor / Enke, Werner., 1994

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Identifier: CC-14259-14566
Scope and Contents

Werner Enke printed this catalog using letterpress on the occasion of his lectureship at the Graphic Workshop. An element of lead type is collaged to back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Printing at The Whittington Press 1972-1994, 1994

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Identifier: CC-04768-4858
Scope and Contents

Part 4 includes an annotated listing of the issues of Matrix, a periodical published by the Whittington Press and held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Printing Poetry: A Workbook in Typographic Reification , 1980

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Identifier: CC-21033-21442
Scope and Contents

Book describes the craft of letterpress printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Printing Poetry: A Workbook in Typographic Reification , 1980

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Identifier: CC-23163-23601
Scope and Contents

This book was sent to master printer Walter Hamady to review for "The American Book Collector" by Daniel Traister, book review editor. Hamady's response to Traister, his refusal to critique the book, and his reaction to the text is described in the correspondence. Furthermore, Hamady mutilated several pages by violently stabbing them with a ball point pen, reversed the dust jacket, wrote scathing opinions in the margins of the text, and returned the volume to Traister. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Printshop in a Cowpasture or, Making Books in the Woods / Robertson, James., 1986

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Identifier: CC-03281-3330
Scope and Contents

Subject of lecture was the Yolla Bolly Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986