This a sketch and idea book that features more handwritten ideas. A sketch for the sculpture, Air Accordion, that was commissioned for the The Beauty in Breathing 1992 exhibition, appears on page 175. An image of two rubberstamped rabbits recurs on several pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book was designed, printed and handbound by Johnson. The illustrations, based on the original style of Thomas Tenniel, the original illustrator of Alice in Wonderland, were recreated by Yvonne van Rietschoten. The letters were written by Lewis Carroll a.k.a. C.L. Dodgson and printed with a computor by the author. Twenty-six letters were chosen addressed to 26 people in alphabetical order of their first name. Each letter of the alphabet with an illustration is printed on the outside of each envelope page. This book was awarded the Bienes Book prize at the Broward County public library. Marvin Sackner served as one of three jurors in this selection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition was created utilizing a trade edition book as a support structure. Barron composed poems and utilized poems from other poets along with found text. She placed them in the layers of the book, e.g.,"Twisting silence into words, my shrouded shadow sucked deep of a breath of emptiness, to shriek into its own ear," (S.B.) "what have you done to the garden that was entrusted to you?" (A. Machado) and "Breathe in a mouthful of dust..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was done to commemorate the death of Bob Kaufmann, a fellow communist poet who lived in the North Beach section of San Francisco and was a good friend of Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Herve Dupont, a master French glass artist, made the binding for this conventional poetry booklet. It consists of two, colored, heavy glass panels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Albert Dupont organized this book project for his son Ben's class. Each student, the teachers and Dupont contributed a line drawing portrait of themselves, designed so that each individual held the hand of the preceeding and following person. The title means "A Lot of Children." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The source text is Update Proceedings, a symposium, held by Key Pharmaceuticals on their respiratory drug, "Theodur." One of three copies, all slightly different, were commissioned by Sackner. The other two were given as gifts to officers of the company. The book serves as a support onto which Broaddus placed his visual imagery with minimal attention directed to uncovering new verbal messages in the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lehrer indicates that Versations is made up of sounds in a space that can have personal meaning to the reader, or can be used as a score or script for a performance of characters listed at the top of each page. "Time moves from top to bottom. The performance progresses one page at a time. Notations that occur on the same horizontal line are performed simultaneously. Line lengths are determined by breath breaks as in verse but the reading as in conversation is generally fluid. Most speeches have typographic indicators for particular emphasis, volume, or emotion. Some chacters on the othe hand ar more monochromatic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page is typed with lines of lower case letters a to z and then z to a. Each successive page is over-typed with increasing density such that the additional letters create a moire effect. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Images include Greta Garbo and others from the Art World. This also appears in a trade edition which is held by the Sackner Archive. The box and handcoloring make this edition unique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a collage novel dealing with the travels of Sweeny Todd alias Bertolli. The consist of copperplate engravings collages mostly taken from issues of the Illustrated London News 1860-1900. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Theme deals with the rise and fall of the automobile in American culture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The square-shaped perforation on the card signifies the window element of the title and the shirt button sewn on the card, the wind..mill of the title which is printed as a label on the box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.