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Ellen Shapiro contirbuted an essay, "Posterity's Yiddishkeit," dealing with the Yiddish Book Center. In it, she mentions and reproduces the cover of a facsimile edition of El Lissitzky's "Yingle Tsingl Khvat." The Sackner Archive holds the second edition of this book published in Warsaw. It is a children's story in verse about a boy named Tsingl Dhvat who brought winter to his village. Juanita Dugdale writes about the English craft of lettercutting in stone and mentions the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay. This issue features a large section that reproduces computer screens on the Internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Brownjohn was an American graphic designer who emigrated to London in the 1960's. "The design profession doesn't produce many larger-than-life figures. Robert Brownjohn-BJ, to just about everyone who knew him, and everyone did-was one. His gifts were immense, as were his appetites. Enfant terrible and visionary, he was both. Mick and the Stones wanted to hang with him. Of course it couldn't last. Robert Brownjohn was simply too big for this world. He died in 1970 at the age of 45, a victim of his own excesses. Today, he is best remembered for his sexy James Bond credit sequences. But Brownjohn's legacy is far more significant, and his story has all the drama and pathos of a Hollywood blockbuster. Now, for the first time, this extraordinary life and career is remembered in print, with all its richness and complexity. Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography tracks the story of this legend from his early years as the prized student of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy to his days as a visionary star in...

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This issue contains illustrated articles on the genesis of the letter 'L,' film posters, and "Love Letters." Allan Haley contributed a biography entitled, "William Caxton: The Modest Translator." Marion Muller's essay "Meant to Be Seen and Not Heard" about concrete and shaped poetry dealt with an exhibition of Arion Press' Shaped Poetry portfolio at MJS Books & Graphics in New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.