Bibliography

Below are the books and other media made available at the Context Stations and the Rare Books Collection.  Please note that the final list of works provided at the former is based on the photo documentation taken at the exhibit by the exhibit docents and, so, represents works actually on view during the exhibit period.  For that reason the listed works may differ from published preliminary documents and curatorial statements provided.  The Rare Books bibliography represents the final list received from the Library of Congress.

The Alphabet Game.  A bpNichol Reader.  Ed. Darren Wershler-Henry and Lori Emerson.  Toronto, Canada:  Coach House Books, 2007.

Anthology of Concretism.  Ed. Eugene Wildman.  Chicago Review Anthology Edition.  Chicago, IL: The Swallow Press, Inc., 1967.

Anthology of Concretism.  Ed. Eugene Wildman.  Second Revised & Enlarged Edition.  Chicago, IL: The Swallow Press, Inc., 1969.

bpNichol.  ABC:  The Aleph Beth Book.  Ottawa, Canada:  Oberon Press, 1971.

—. The Cosmic Chef:  An Evening of Concrete.  No. 753. Ottawa, Canada:  Oberon Press, 1970.

—. Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer.  Toronto, Canada:  Weed Flower Press, 1973.

Geiser, Theodore (Dr. Seuss).  Green Eggs and Ham.  NY, NY:  Beginner Books, 1990.

H in the Heart.  BpNichol:  A Reader.  Ed. George Bowering and Michael Ondaatje.  Toronto, Canada:  McClelland and Stewart, 1994.

Higgins, Dick.  Pattern Poetry:  Guide to an Unknown Literature.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1987.

Mac Low, Jackson.  Barnesbook:  Four Derived from Sentences by Djuna Barnes. Los Angeles, CA: Sun & Moon Press, 1996.

McCaffery, Steve.  Carnival:  The First Panel: 1967-70.  Toronto, Canada:  The Coach House Press. 1973.

—.  Carnival:  The Second Panel: 1970-75.  Toronto, Canada:  The Coach House Press. n.d.

Mindplay:  An Anthology of British Concrete Poetry.  Ed.  John J. Sharkey.  London, UK:  Lorrimer Publishing, 1971.

Queneau, Raymond, Italo Calvino, Paul Fournel, Jacques Jouet, Claude Berge & Harry Mathews. Oulipo Laboratory:  Texts from the Bibliothèque Oulipienne.  London, England: Atlas Press, 1995.

Reid, Barnett.  Words on Walls:  A Survey of Contemporary Visual Poetry.  Heide Park and Art Gallery. 1989.  Exhibition catalog, 7 March – April 23, 1989.

Roemer, Madge.  Fun with Your Typewriter:  Commercial Art Typing.  Indian Hills, CO: The Falcon’s Wing Press, 1956.

Schmidt-Burkhardt, Astrit.  Maciunas’ Learning Machines:  From Art History to a Chronology of  Fluxus.  Vienna, Austria:  Springer Press, 2011.

Typewriter Art. Ed. Alan Riddell.  London, UK:  London Magazine Editions, 1975.

Urban, Dieter.  Digitale Wortbilder.  Kassel, Germany:  Edition Reichenberger, 1987.

Williams, Emmett.  Anthology of Concrete Poetry. NY, NY:  Something Else Press, 1967.

Wright, Ernest Vincent.  Gadsby.  Los Angeles, CA:  Wetzel Publishing Co., Inc., 1939.

19 Necromancers from Now.  Ed. Ishmael Reed.  Garden City, NY:  Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970.

Barth, John.  Letters:  A Novel.  NY, NY:  G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1979.

Burroughs, William S.  Nova Express.  NY, NY:  Grove Press, 1964.

—.  The Soft Machine.  NY, NY:  Grove Press, 1961.

—.  The Ticket that Exploded.  NY, NY:  Grove Press, 1962.

Coover, Robert.  1976. The Public Burning.  NY, NY:  Grove Press, 1998.

Cortázar, Julio. 1963. Hopscotch.  Trans. Gregory Rabassa.  NY, NY:  Pantheon Books, 1966.

Joyce, James.  1922.  Ulysses.  Mineola, NY:  Dover Publications, Inc., 2009 (reprint of 1922 version published by Sylvia Beach).

Joyce’s Notes and Early Drafts for Ulysses.  Selections from the Buffalo Collection.  Ed. Phillip F. Herring.  Charlottesville, Virginia:  The University of Virginia Press, 1977.

Stein, Gertrude.  The Making of Americans.  NY, NY:  Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934.

Sterne, Laurence.  1759-67. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.  Ed. Martin Rowson.  Woodstock, NY:  Overlook Press, 1997.

—.  1759-67. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.  Ed. Robert Folkenflik.  NY, NY:  Modern Library, 2004.

—.  1759-67. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.  Ed. Ian Campbell Ross. Oxford, England:  Oxford University Press, 1983, 2009.

Packard, Edward. Deadwood City. Illustrated by Barbara Carter.  Philadelphia, PA:  Lippincott, 1978.

—. Sugarcane Island. Illustrated by Barbara Carter. Waitsfield, VT: Crossroads Press, 1976.

Dos Passos, John.  1919.  NY, NY:  Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade.  NY, NY:  A Seymour Lawrence Book/Delacorte Press, 1969.

Abish, Walter.  Alphabetical Africa.  NY, NY:  New Directions, 1974.

bpNichol.  Art Facts:  A Book of Contexts.  Tucson, AZ:  Chax Press, 1990.

Danielewski, Mark Z.  House of Leaves.  City, St:  Pantheon Books, 2000.

DSH (Dom Sylvester Houeldard).  Begin Again:  A Book of Reflections & Reversals.  Introduction by Stefan Themerson.  Brampton, Cumbria : LYC Museum and Gallery, 1975.

Becker, Jürgen and Wolf Vostell. Happenings:  Fluxus, Pop Art, Nouveau Rèalisme.  City, St: Rowohlt, 1965

Riddell, John.  Criss-Cross.  Toronto, Canada:  The Coach House Press, 1977.

Ronell, Avital. The Telephone Book:  Technology, Schizophrenia, and Electronic Speech. Lincoln, NE:  University of Nebraska Press, 1989.

Safran Foer, Jonthan.  Tree of Codes.  London, England:  Visual Editions, 2010.

Verne, Jules. The Mysterious Island.  NY, NY:  Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1875

—. 1875. The Mysterious Island.  Trans. Sidney Kravitz.  Middletown, CT:  Wesleyan UP, 2001.

 
1.  Apollinaire, Guillalume.
Calligrammes.  Lithos de Chirico.  Paris: Gallimard, 1930.Binding by Paul Bonet

Rosenwald 2163
Lessing J Rosenwald Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

2.  Bervin, Jen.
The Dickinson Composites. [New York: Grananry Books], [2010].

The Dickinson Composites is an artist book that focuses on a series of large-scale quilts Jen Bervin made by embroidering the poet Emily Dickinson’s unusual punctuation markings from her fascicles.  In an essay by Bervin elucidates Dickinson’s variant marking system in her poetry manuscripts and provides further context for the quilts.

Press Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

3.  Braccelli, Giovanni Battista, fl. 1624-1649.
Bizzarie di varie. [Livorno : s.n.], 1624.

Rosenwald 1345
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

4.  Broaddus, John Eric, 1943-
Current glossary: words coined since the war. [S.l. : s.n., 2004?]

Altered book by John Eric Broaddus, includes paintings, drawings, collaged images, handwritten notes, cut-outs and cut-outs allowing for portion of other text on a different page to be read.  The original text, Current glossary by R.W. Cowden, was published by the Educators Association in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1917.

N6537.B7 C87 2004
Artists’ Books Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

5.  Chen, Julie.
True to life.  Berkeley : Flying Fish Press, 2004.

The image that appears on each page is one section of a long, continuous visual timeline that can never be viewed all at once. The front is made of a Plexiglas panel through which book pages are viewed. Along the sides of the book are numbered wooden levers corresponding to the leaf of the book to be revealed. Levers are slid, moving 7 panels on the page surface, overlaying one page upon the next, creating “a patchwork narrative of events.” Each leaf contains images and text.

N7433.4.C436 T78 2004
Press Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

6.  Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri / a verse translation by Tom Phillips with images and commentary.  London : Talfourd Press, [1983].  3 volumes

The commentary is “a parallel text embedded in the images; a poetic gloss deriving … from W.H. Mallock’s A Human Document, a Victorian novel that is here plundered …for possible insights into Dante’s thought.”

PQ4315 .P49 1983 folio
Artists’ Books Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

7.  Davidson, Laura.
Random thoughts on hope.  [Boston]: Laura Davidson, 2003.

A wooden volvelle inside a wooden box.  The volvelle is 4 concentric circles with the word “hope” at the center. The next circle contains 8 prepositions, and the next 32 nouns.  When the volvelle is moved the words combine to create phrases.  The box lid has a key in the center, with small gears instead of a handle.

N7433.4.D38 R36 2003
Artists’ Books Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

8.  The Declaration.  1920.
Portfolio 162, Folder 14
Printed Ephemera Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

9. Drescher, Henrik.
Too much bliss.  New York City : Granary, 1992 ([Minneapolis] : Hermetic Press)

In the words of Johanna Drucker, “this book has the look of some manic, encyclopedic new age Sears and Roebuck mail order catalogue of all the elements that ever existed in the course of organic history and human memory.”  The subtitle says it all:  “Scars, tattoos, and forgotten instructions – everything at once”  Everything is here – body parts, coffee stains, clumsy watercolor, cryptic hand, latex, rambling thoughts, gestures collage….

N7433.4.D7473 T66 1992
Press Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

10.  Ely, Timothy.
Optical Aleutians 2.  1987.

Art work on most pages includes artist’s invented script.

N7433.4.E35 A4 1987
Artists’ Books Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

11. Kaufman, Margaret.
Aunt Sallie’s lament.  West Burke, Vermont : Janus Press, c1988.

PS3561.A8612 A96 1988
Janus Press Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

12.  Koch, Peter Rutledge.
Ur-text. [Berkeley, CA:  Peter Koch, 1994]

Vol. 1 hand sewn onto alum-tawed goatskin thongs and covered in calfskin vellum by Daniel Flanagan.   Vol. 3 “hand bound by Daniel Kelm in various metals.”

Z232.K775 U78 1994 folio
Press Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

13.  Osborn, Kevin, 1951-
Vector rev.  [Arlington, Va.: K. Osborn, 1983]

A compressed spiral loading radii off a central point. 14 colors … Offset on 11 colors of paper. Bound between machined aluminum with ribbon and jewels.

N7433.4.O83 A4 1983 folio
Artists’ Books Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

14.  Pfeiffer, Werner.
Hocus Pocus.  Red Hook, NY: Pear Whistle Press, 2012

Press Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

15.  Pfeiffer, Werner.
Zig Zag.  Red Hook, NY: Pear Whistle Press, 2012

Press Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

16.  Pfeiffer, Werner.
ZiPo.  Red Hook, NY: Pear Whistle Press, 2012

Press Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

17.  Phillips, Tom, 1937-
A humument : a novel after W.H. Mallock. [London : Tetrad Press, 1970-1975]

A verbal and graphic creation utilizing pages from Mallock’s novel A human document (new ed., London, 1892).

PR6066.H495 H8 1970
Rare Book Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

18. Poesie de mots inconnus. 
Paris, 1949.

Rosenwald 2198
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

19. Smith, Keith A., 1938- .
Book 91.  Barrytown, N.Y.: Space Heater Multiples, [1982]

An art work, without printing except for the embossed title page.  Termed a “string book” in the artist’s Structure of the visual book, 1984. Its leaves are strung together with linen cords and punched with holes to create varying effects of light and shadow when viewed with a single light source.

N7433.4.S65 A4 1982 folio
Artists’ Books Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

20.  Spector, Buzz.
A passage.  New York: Granary Books, 1994.

Identical copies of a single leaf are torn and bound, forming a composite image of the leaf.

N7433.4.S6855 P377 1994
Press Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

21.  Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman : In three volumes … Dublin : printed for J. Potts, J. Williams, W. Colles, T. Walker, C. Jenkin, and L. White, 1779.  3 volumes

PZ3.S839 T 4
Pre-1801 Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

22.  Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman.  San Francisco: Arion Press, 1988.

Issued in a case with: Baldessari, John, 1931- .  Photo-collages for Tristram Shandy / John Baldessari;  with quotations from the novel by Laurence Sterne.

PR3714 .T7 1988
Press Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

23.  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  Paris: Mutel, 1994.

PR5485 .A1 1994 folio
Press Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

24.  Tory, Geoffroy, ca. 1480-ca. 1533.
Champ Flevry. Paris, [1529]

Rosenwald 994
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

25.  Verlaine, Paul Marie.
Parallement.  Lithographs by Pierre Bonnard.  Paris: A. Vollard, 1900

Rosenwald  2125
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

26.  Winston, Sam.
Orphan

27.  Winston, Sam.
The Romeo & Juliet series : Passion, Rage & Solace.  London: Arc Artist Editions, [2009].  5 loose sheets in portfolio

Artists’ Books Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

28.  Winston, Sam.
A Dictionary Story.  London: Circle Press, 2006

Artists’ Books Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division