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Smiley's Super Service, Daniel Marks, Charles Murphy, Tor Lokvig, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pop-up and Movable Books

[5] folded leaves : col. ill. . PSS Panorama Story Series Caption title. Printed on 5 double leaves that open out or pop up into three-dimensional service station scenes. Includes 5 "punch-out" pieces. Stanley F. Moss Pop-Up Book Collection, Gift of Eugene B. Navias.

Ye Olde Alphabet, Anne Johnson, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Letters

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

About Change, About Change, About Change, Change About!, Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Ruth Laxson Artist Book Archive

[20] leaves : color ill. "About change (about) explores the possibilities of combining the etching press and letter press."--Colophon. Issued in a plastic binder. The library has copy number 14 of an edition of 25, signed by the artist.

Window Watching: An Alliterative Alphabet, Elizabeth Bowne, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Letters

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

Seas Of The Moon, Katharine Meynell, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

hand sewn signatures with metallic paper hand stitched to the cover pages, book enclosed in a denim cloth slipcase; cover; title page; interior spreads. Images of the poetically named "seas" of the moon's surface are conveyed with images of parts of baby clothes, implying the relationship between the full moon and childbirth.

Gold And Silver Do Not Spoil, Robert Peters, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

70 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color). Single signature stapled into a paper wrapper with cut-out in the front cover revealing part of a photograph on the title page. Offset printed text and images on the theme of money and society. Cut-out in back cover reveals text from last page. "Text compiled from the following authors: Ansel Adams, Aristotle, Samuel Beckett, Charlie Chan, Mary Douglas, Jules Henry, Robert L. Heilbroner, Ann Landers, Claude Levi Strauss, John Locke, Judith Martin, Karl Marx, Octavio Paz, John Ruskin, George Simmel, Herbert Spencer, Abigail Van Buren, Vtgoysky, Ludwig Wittgenstein and others"--Colophon. "This book was …

Memory Loss, Scott Mccarney, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 sheet folded. Folded accordion style; binding consists of end boards and cord tie.

Changing Facades, Jose C. Orozco, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Culture

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

This Is A Book Of A Family And Of A Place Of The Heart, Sarah Malcolm Self, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Stories

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.

The Old-Time Printer, Mark Twain, Francis Xavier Harrigan, Don Brady, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Miniature Books

vi, 18 pages : illustrations ; 65 mm (6.4 x 5 cm). "This book was handset in 6 pt. Bulmer with "Notes" set in 6 pt. Baskerville. Printed by F.X. Harrigan at the Xavier Press in a limited edition of 175 copies. Bound by Don Brady."--colophon. Foreword by the printer. Text is copy of an address Twain delivered in New York City to commemorate Benjamin Franklin's birthday in 1886. Frontispiece is a mounted reproduction of a US postage stamp which included a portrait of Mark Twain. Ten cent stamp originally issued 1940. Title page printed in black and red. Bound …

A Packet Of Letters, Walter Sidney Feldman, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 19 pages. One of 45 numbered copies. "The type of A Packet of Letters is 18 pt. Bodoni and was set by Mollohan Typesetting of West Warwick, Rhode Island. It was printed on Nideggen paper on a hand fed Vandercook Press. The binding is by Stuart Einhorn of Providence, R.I.A Packet of Letters was published in an edition of 45 ..."--Colophon. Title and text in red and black on title page. Bound at the head of the text with white-coated metal spiral binding. Text is attached to a cloth cover binder with an off-center opening in front. A …

Say, See, Bone : Lessons From French, Susan Elizabeth King, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[37] leaves . Title on 3 succesive leaves. Text consists of prose pieces by King, poems in French by Adloff and King's translation of Adloff's poems; letterpress translations, and corrections and comments printed as handwriting, appear on Japanese paper as overlays. "Designed and letterpress printed in an edition of 125 copies by Susan E. King at Paradise Press."--Prospectus. "The coptic binding was done by hand by Shelley Hoyt."--Colophon. Blue and white paste paper cover boards made by Susan King. Prospectus laid in.

Neopostmodrinism, Or, Dieser Rasen Ist Kein Hundeklo, Or, Gub²Rzub² Number 6, Or, The Incognita Of Rita's Deep Time Coexisting Within Central Discoveries Of The Thermodynamic Dichotomy Of Western Thought : Observed Impregnant Meanings & Transhistorical Justifications, Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady, Perishable Press Unlimited, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[102] pages : illustrations . Alternate Titles: Neopostmodrinism; Neopostmodernism; Dieser Rasen ist kein Hundeklo. Half title: Neopostmodernism, or, Dieser Rasen ist kein Hundeklo, or, Gabberjab number 6. Series: Hamady, Walter. Interminable gabberjabb ; 6. No. 6 of the author's Interminable gabberjabb "series." Limited edition of 125 copies. Signatures: [1]⁴ [2]¹² [3]⁸ [4]¹⁰ [5]⁸ [6]¹⁰. Page count runs from [1]₁b to [6]₁₀a. [2]₉ and [2]₁₀, though joined to form a double leaf, have printing on one of the facing surfaces.

What's Happening With Momma?, Clarissat. Sligh, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[7] pages : illustrations. A bookwork, consisting of one cardboard sheet accordion folded to form various views of a house, with a poem printed on accordion folded cards which unfold to form a stairway in front of the picure on each page. Cover title. Printing method: Silkscreen, letterpress. Accordion fold book. Edition of 50, signed by the artist.

Weirdo, No. 21, Aline Kominsky-Crumb (Editor), Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

28 volumes : illustrations. Frequency: quarterly. Publication dates: No. 1 (spring, 1981), ceased with no. 28 (summer, 1993). Editor: R. Crumb. With issue #10, P. Bagge became editor; with issue #18, Crumb's wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb became editor (except for issue #25, which was again edited by Bagge).Color illustrations on covers, b&w interiors. Early issues of Weirdo reflect Crumb's interests at the time outsider art, fumetti, Church of the SubGenius-type anti-propaganda and assorted "weirdness." It also introduced artists such as Peter Bagge, Dori Seda and Dennis Worden. No. 21 Contributors: Robert Crumb, William Clark, Mary Fleener, Carol Tyler, Robert Armstrong, Michael …

Weirdo, No. 20, Aline Kominsky-Crumb (Editor), Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

28 volumes : illustrations. Frequency: quarterly. Publication dates: No. 1 (spring, 1981), ceased with no. 28 (summer, 1993). Editor: R. Crumb. With issue #10, P. Bagge became editor; with issue #18, Crumb's wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb became editor (except for issue #25, which was again edited by Bagge).Color illustrations on covers, b&w interiors. Early issues of Weirdo reflect Crumb's interests at the time outsider art, fumetti, Church of the SubGenius-type anti-propaganda and assorted "weirdness." It also introduced artists such as Peter Bagge, Dori Seda and Dennis Worden. No. 20 Contributors: Robert Crumb, Justin Green, Dori Seda, Mary Fleener, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Mark …

Sowing Fields, Kathleen Mallow, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.

Light Must Be Heavy, Elaine Froehlich, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Senses

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

The Land Of Israel, Rachel Schreiber, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Culture

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

Le Porte Que Quelqu'un A Ouverte (The Door That Someone Opened), Brock Waldron, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Senses

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.

The Song Of The Maize, Rachel Schreiber, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Senses

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

Voice, Huda Abi Fares, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Senses

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

Ivy Leaves, 1986-1987, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 1987 edition of the Anderson College journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were David Peebles, Stephen Brogdon, Ria Mashburn, David Walker, Tom Garner, Chris Whitfield, Pam Caldwell, Harrison Tucker, Lynn Macomson, Tim Teitloff, Karen Tanner, Stacey Godbey, Doug Davison, and Susan Wooten. Cover art by Stacey Godbey.

My 9 Migraine Cures, Anne. Kalmbach, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[18] pages : chiefly illustrations . Printing method: Offset, die cut Binding: Concertina

Measure, Cut, Stitch, Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Ruth Laxson Artist Book Archive

[32] leaves : ill. Cover title. "printed by serigraphy and typography. Edition of 75. This book is number 71"--Colophon. Signed by the artist.

Wetatonmi, Angela Lorenz, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Culture

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

Senegal Teranga, Andy Petitti, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Culture

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

Mappa Mundi, Angela Lorenz, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Culture

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

Webs, Elizabeth Collins, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Animals

This book was created for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

A Deer, Laura Chessin, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Animals

This book was created for Jan Baker's artists' book class.