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Conventional non-fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1840 Collections and/or Records:

Third Front & Detached Pieces / Roland Penrose, translator ; E.L.T. Mesens, translator., 1944

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Identifier: CC-43511-45583
Scope and Contents

Mesens initials of his first name stand for Edouard-Leon-Theodore. This book is illustrated with 5 designs by Mesens, the first of which is negativised for the translation, i.e. the French image is a negative of the English positive. The final illustration is an artistic interpretation of a musical score titled "La Partition Complete/The Complete Score." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1944

This Is What You Wanted, Isn't It?, 1970

 Item — Box Blau-Bly (prev 321): [Barcode: 31858072490869]
Identifier: CC-48153-69176
Scope and Contents

There are reproductions of nine collages done by Blazek in this book. Most copies have the publisher name stricken out and c/o Abyss stamped in; this is not the case in this copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

ths is erth thees ar peopul , 2007

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Identifier: CC-53147-74299
Scope and Contents

From the rear cover review by the National Post: "The question this latest fusion of song, sound, performance and visual poetry from bill bissett is for a human condition ourside the perpetual terror of the twenty-first century..." Has marginalia in graphite by previous owner on pages 5, 8, 26, 27, 125 and 142. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Thumbprints / Fetherling, Douglas, editor ; Nichol bp ; bissett b ; Atwood M ; Ball N ; Souster R ; Garnet E ; Colombo JR., 1969

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Identifier: CC-11248-11463
Scope and Contents

Subtitled "An Anthology of Hitchhiking Poems," this may be considered a precursor to the hitchhiking poems and journal of John Curry on his trip across Canada in 1994, held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Tide(s) of Memory: Postmodern Queer, 2002

 Item — Box 129: [Barcode: 31858072457892]
Identifier: CC-38866-40792
Scope and Contents

This second volume of this series is implemented with markings, words and letters and is intended as a work on non-fiction. FnL (Francis and Leonie) collaborated on the concept, construction and binding. The authors write that "meaning is abolished and priority given to sight and touch." Postmodern Queer informs the queer from a postmodern perspective and is an on-going project that appears in many formats and sizes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Contains volume I (burlap, soft cover) and volume II (paper).

Dates: 2002

Tidings / Angeleri, Lucy M. ; Pritchard, Norman H. ; Merton T ; Reps P., 1974

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Identifier: CC-27160-27635
Scope and Contents

Norman Pritchard II contributed calligraphic embellishments to this book. This book is stored with Pritchard material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

T=I=D=Y Language / Bradley, Daniel f.., 2007

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Identifier: CC-48860-69896
Scope and Contents

This book is designated Outlands eight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Timothy McSweeney's. No.40 / Dave Eggers, editor ; Eggers D., 2012

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Identifier: CC-54570-34789
Scope and Contents

The hard cover book is titled "In My Home There Is No More Sorrow: Ten Days in Rwanda" by Rick Bass.The soft cover book is McSweeney No.40. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

To Answer / Mayakovsky, Vladimir., 1982

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Identifier: CC-06282-6397
Scope and Contents

The dust jacket is decorated with a constructivistic design of Varvara Stepanova from 1920. There has been water damage to the pages but the text is unaffected. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

To Do As Adam Did: Selected Poems of Ronald Johnson, 2000

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Identifier: CC-37061-38901
Scope and Contents

Edited by Peter O'Leary who also contributed an introduction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000