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Phillips dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." This fifth edition is denoted on its cover and contains about 80 pages in which a new image has been substituted for the original. The dust jacket color is vermillion. For this edition Phillips has placed his introduction at the back of the book,"'Hoping that the reader would want to meet the book head on." In this essay Phillips describes the history of his creation of A Humument with personal references and mentions that the Sackner Archive holds the original copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Phillips dedication reads "for Fiona" [Phillips' wife]. In addition, "This volume is also dedicated in fond memory to the late Ruth Sackner." Marvin and Ruth Sackner togetheras collectors and friends have been the mainstayof support to A Humumentfor over thirty years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Phillips dedication reads "for Fiona" [Phillips' wife]. In addition, "This volume is also dedicated in fond memory to the late Ruth Sackner." Marvin and Ruth Sackner togetheras collectors and friends have been the mainstayof support to A Humumentfor over thirty years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Phillips dedication reads "for Fiona" [Phillips' wife]. In addition, "This volume is also dedicated in fond memory to the late Ruth Sackner." Marvin and Ruth Sackner togetheras collectors and friends have been the mainstayof support to A Humumentfor over thirty years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Phillips' dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." The first revision of the book contains 50 pages in which a new image has been substituted for the original. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Phillips' dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." The first revision of the book contains 50 pages in which a new image has been substituted for the original. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Phillips' dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." The first revision of the book contains 50 pages in which new images have been substituted for the original ones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Phillips dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." This fourth edition, as denoted on the dust jacket but as the third revised edition on its title page, contains about 40 pages in which a new image has been substituted for the original. The pages are printed as giclee printes which is a high class kind of ink jet on fine paper. A purple dust jacket covers the gold cloth covered, cardboard binding. Two humument fragment prints (Canon color copier?) are included in this special edition of the book. One print reads "the life time suspect who knew the arts connect - veil his hidden drama of suspected actors - persons and names : so the changes make the book continue." The color background surrounding a rectangle placed in the center consisting of gray-black murky figures from collaged old engravings consists of line drawn faces. The poem in this print references Tom Phillips' continuing involvement with A Humument....

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Publication of "A Humument" was begun in 1970 by Tetrad Press with a box of 10 silkscreened pages. The original manuscript was started in 1966 and completed in 1973; it was exhibited in 1973 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. The current edition, now out of print, differs from the Tetrad in that several new pages were substituted for the first versions and several others were reworked by hand, using advantages of revision offered by offset color lithography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the first edition of the book. Publication of "A Humument" was begun in 1970 by Tetrad Press with a box of 10 silkscreened pages. The original manuscript was started in 1966 and completed in 1973; it was exhibited 1973 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. The current edition, now out of print, differs from the Tetrad one in that several new pages were substituted for the first versions and several others were reworked by hand, using advantages of revision offered by offset color lithography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the first edition of the book. Publication of "A Humument" was begun in 1970 by Tetrad Press with a box of 10 silkscreened pages. The original manuscript was started in 1966 and completed in 1973; it was exhibited in 1973 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. The current edition, now out of print, differs from the Tetrad in that several new pages were substituted for the first versions and several others were reworked by hand, using advantages of revision offered by offset color lithography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the first edition of the book. Publication of "A Humument" was begun in 1970 by Tetrad Press with a box of 10 silkscreened pages. The original manuscript was started in 1966 and completed in 1973; it was exhibited in 1973 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. The current edition, now out of print, differs from the Tetrad in that several new pages were substituted for the first versions and several others were reworked by hand, using advantages of revision offered by offset color lithography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Phillips dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." The cover and title page state that this is the second revised edition and is the only such copy printed with this caption. Its has a tan background color. This edition contains about 100 pages in which a new image has been substituted for the original. It was used by Tom Phillips for a reading at the Dual Muse symposium held at the Washington University Museum of Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Phillips dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." This third edition, as denoted on its cover but as the second revised edition as denoted on its title page, contains about 100 pages in which a new image has been substituted for the original. A brown dust jacket covers the yellow-gold soft cover binding which was not Phillips' preferred color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Phillips dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." This third edition, as denoted on its cover but the second revised edition as denoted on its title page, contains about 100 pages in which a new image has been substituted for the original. The cover of this book is predominantly yellow-gold rather than brown intended by the designer. It was purchased at the Dual Muse exhibition held at the Washington University Museum of Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was produced with the assistance of Jonathan Meyer to mark and celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the publication of A Human Document by W.H. Mallock. The binding was produced by Pella Erskine-Tulloch. The 74 prints were made with a Canon Laser Color Copier and tipped onto the pages. The two silkscreened prints are an integral part of the pages. The images are taken from the first, second, and forth-coming third edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colophon called for10 prints in this volume but instead it includes 32 prints. The edition size was 100 copies and 25 copies hors commerce. The pages were silkscreened by Kelpra Studio London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colophon called for10 prints in this volume but instead it includes 32 prints. The edition size was 100 copies and 25 copies hors commerce. The pages were silkscreened by Kelpra Studio London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colophon called for10 prints in this volume but instead it includes 32 prints. The edition size was 100 copies and 25 copies hors commerce. The pages were silkscreened by Kelpra Studio London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colophon called for10 prints in this volume but instead it includes 32 prints. The edition size was 100 copies and 25 copies hors commerce. The pages were silkscreened by Kelpra Studio London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.