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Conventional non-fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1840 Collections and/or Records:

Offenbares Geheimnis / Atabay, Cyrus ; Reichart, Josua., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-25980-26442
Scope and Contents

Contains calligraphic arabic-like gestured markings by Reichart. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Office Coffee / Horvath, Alan., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-62635-47887
Scope and Contents

An abstract painting by Alan Horvath is reproduced as a photocopied colored page. The theme of the poems in this book is stories of "desperate" workers in an office bureaucracy. The poems are reminiscent of those appearing in the Australian magazine "924." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Old Negatives: four verse sequences, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-42820-44860
Scope and Contents

On the last page is a poem in which each line has a different color. It reads THE GRAVE COLOURS OF EARTH - BRIGHTEN TOWARD - AN - OPEN BOOK - OF - LIGHT UNSTAINED - BY - WORD. The Sackners visited Gray in September 2004 and saw this poem as a wall embroidery (done by a friend) hanging on a wall in his library. Both the cover of the book and the dust jacket were designed by Gray. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Ombre de Mon Amour 3rd Edition / Apollinaire, Guillaume., 1948

 Item
Identifier: CC-32982-34602
Scope and Contents

The main part of the text consists of conventional poetry by Apollinaire. A section at the back of the book contains six pages of calligraphic handwritten poems designated "poemes ideogrammatiques," and ten pages of drawings and handwritten prose. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1948

On Learning to Live on Winter Perhaps in Hopes of Spring, 1968

 Item — Box 330: [Barcode: 31858072490968]
Identifier: CC-22033-22449
Scope and Contents

Designed and printed by R. Wilson at Indiana University, Bloomington. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

On Paper:The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History / Basbanes, Nicholas A.., 2013

 Item
Identifier: CC-58950-10002144
Scope and Contents DAVID WALTON Review on interent: Nicholas Basbanes is an especially congenial writer, a quality he displayed memorably in A Gentle Madness, his 1999 history of book collecting and collectors. He does it again most pleasurably in On Paper, a wide-ranging investigation into the "everything" of that ubiquitous and indispensable construction of cellulose fibers whose history paralleled "” and made possible "” the rise of civilization.On Paper, true to its double-duty title, isn't a history of papermaking, though Basbanes tracks the process from its discovery in China a century or two B.C., east into Japan and Korea, west in the eighth century to Arabia, where the Koran had been recited from memory for a hundred years, to Spain in the 11th century, to Italy in the 13th, where it spurred the Renaissance, then to North America in 1690 "” and now, everywhere.As a prism into history, the role of paper offers a unique and often defining perspective. For example, at the start of the Civil...
Dates: 2013

On the Right Track / curry, jw ; Smith, Gerry ; Bradley, Daniel f. ; Lovranski, Dan ; Beland, Richard ; Ball N., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-20067-20461
Scope and Contents

This scrapbook documents an attempt to hitch a freight train from Toronto to Vancouver in order to relive an adventure of 1976-8. The text which was printed entirely with rubberstamping is a tour de force in this media. A series of debacles led the adventurers to a neighborhood just outside Toronto rather than their goal. The collaged elements of the book are photocopied colored handwritten notes and color photographs of the journey. An appendix is provided as a guide to others for such trips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

only fragments found: selected poems 1969 - 1998 / Sandri, Giovanna ; Niccolai G., 2014

 Item
Identifier: CC-58766-10002004
Scope and Contents

Guy Bennett has edited this volumn and provided introductory notes and translations. Giulia Niccolai has contributed an in depth introduction to the texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

Opera et Cetera / Carson, Ciaran ; Phillips T., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27632-28713
Scope and Contents

The dust jacket was designed by Tom Phillips who altered one of Carson's poems in the style of 'A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Opera et Cetera / Carson, Ciaran ; Phillips T., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-36186-37969
Scope and Contents

The dust jacket was designed by Tom Phillips who altered one of Carson's poems in the style of 'A Humument." Another copy is signed and inscrrbed by Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996