Inked drawing of a man smoking as men and eyes surround him. Signed by artist

The Thing Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It's like a magazine, except that each issue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published as a useful object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

William Jay Smith also contributed an afterward. The wood engravings are by John DePol and M.A. Gelfand is the printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The line drawings and cover were done by John Sweet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A forward was written by Michael Bell traces the life and work of Rosenblatt. Bell writes, "The drawings range in style from the simplest, almost whimsical scratches on the paper, expecially some of the latest observations on the shoreline of Vancouver Island, to highly compendia of signs and symbols, richly worked in obsessive surface patterns." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a reprinting of the first commercial print that Furnival made after his graduation from the Royal Academy of Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem was composed and printed in celebration of the 80th birthday of Bill Smith and the publication of his collected poems by the same title. The small engraving by George Wingate illustrates the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The illustration is a reproduction of a water color by Gary Bukovnik and the poem about a tulip is by Smith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Ockerse documents television programs by tracing lines directly from the TV screen. Words were selected from the programs by listening. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The dust jacket is chipped and torn in several places. However the black cloth cover and the text and images are in fine condition. The prose and poems are printed in back to back reversed sections for each of the two novels. The novel "For Jesus Lunatick" is printed without punctuations in a highly experimental layout including several numbered blank pages. The latter are for numbered illustrations placed in the center section that the reader is requested to cut and paste to the respective page. "Andy "is punctuated and layed out experimentally with some pages concrete poetic in appearance. It, too, has several pages that are numbered and blank with exception of a single number placed at different locations to receive the illustrations from the cutttings in the center section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This proposal for a revolutionary garden in Versailles was never carried out owing to a political perception in France that Finlay espoused pro-Nazi, anti-semitic views (this opinion is not shared by the Sackners). -- 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.