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Enke, Werner

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

ABC = Buchlein / Enke, Werner., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-14108-14413
Scope and Contents

A typographically designed page for each letter of the alphabet is alternated with a page of text and image incorporating words using that particular letter of the alphabet. The end papers have letters of varying typefaces embedded in the paper. The black leather front cover has an uppercase A and the back cover an uppercase Z. This copy is from the deluxe edition that is printed on handmade paper and is a masterpiece of inventive, letterpress printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Jedermann Sein Eigener Dichter / Enke, Werner., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-14062-14367
Scope and Contents

Each page has been cut into five horizontal pagelets with a printed phase in varied typographical styles. By arranging these segments chosen from different pages in this book from top to bottom, over 100,000 permutations of a poem are formed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

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