Slurring at bottom a printer's book of errors Robin Price and Emily K. Larned

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author: Price, Robin (Glenna Robin)
Author: Allan, Mary; Balderston, Diane; Barringer, Mary; Benish, Barbara 1958-; Dudek, Derek; Kelm, Daniel E; Larned, Emily K; Lee, Jim; Pitts, James Ware; Simpson, Tommy; Nichols Woodworking; Robin Price (Publisher); Smithsonian Libraries Artists' Books DSI

"An edition of sixty letterpress copies"--Colophon; "First and last sections of the book are collated consistently; the middle four signatures vary. Each copy is unique. Bound by Emily K. Larned, the book is sewn onto cords attached to sanded plexiglas covers"--Colophon; "Texts printed were excerpted from [several] sources and used with permission"--P. [73]; In 28 x 23 cm. box with wooden inserts by Nichols Woodworking; AAPGAB copy 39088010098333 is no. 56
Contents: 19 July 2000 / Robin Price -- Matsuo Basho / Hiroaki Sato -- 36 Mesostics re and not re Duchamp / John Cage -- Dada & Chance / Hans Richter --Library of Babel / Roderick V. Jenen -- [Poems] / Fujiwara no Teika & Fujiwara no Ietaka -- Tea ceremony / Leonard Koren -- Chance assignment / John gilgun -- Imperfect irregular beauty / Hara Kōshirō -- Exquisite corpse / Uwe m. Schneed -- -- Elevator here at the Gramercy Park Hotel / Alvin Lucier -- In Japan / Shurryu Suzuki -- Friendship quilts / Susan McKelvey -- Quotes on 'Palimpsest' / [various writers] -- John Cage / Anne Harnoncourt -- John Cage / Mark Sweed -- Proof, run-in sheets, run-ups / Geoffrey Ashall Glaister -- Few examples / Paul Klee
Summary: Contains the work of 10 artists, working independently, on previously printed & technically annotated sheets with new text imprinted on similarly used sheets which are interspersed with the artists' works

2001

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