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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 439 Collections and/or Records:

Le Courrier des Lettres / Topor, Roland., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-30438-31859
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a colored satirical drawing that incorporates a letter of the alphabet along with a caption below it. The Sackner copy is the first edition of the book; it was reprinted in 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Le Poeme Alphabetique / Chopin, Henri., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-18689-19062
Scope and Contents

This was also published in Chopin's book, "Le Derniere Roman du Monde" and reproduced with minor differenced in Williams' "Antholigy of Concrete Poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Letter by Letter: An Alphabetical Miscellany / Pflughaupt, Laurent., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-50241-71307
Scope and Contents

The author analyzes each letter of the Roman alphabet in detail, tracing its origin evolution, and form, as well as discussing its important abbreviations, symbols, and associated meanings. Arranged in alphabetical order, twenty-six entries offer a wealth of facts about each letter, establishing correspondences between letters and elements borrowed from a variety of different fields of study ranging from traditioal paleography, phonetics, and graphic arts to the more arcane areas of musicology, esotericism, and even Eastern philosophy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

[Letter to David W. Harris on Broadside of Poem] / Bory, Jean-Francois; Harris DW; Chopin H; Nichol bp., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-22446-22870
Scope and Contents

Letter concerns J. Bory's placement of copies of "Gronk" No.1 and 2 in Paris bookshops, and comments on expenses involved with being a publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Letter to Dr. and Mrs Sackner] / Hutchins, Edward H.., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-08796-8971
Scope and Contents

Provides key to designations of images in Alphabet Mountain, an artist's book held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Letterale / Roffi, Gian Paolo., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34654-36355
Scope and Contents

The letters of the alphabet are presented in varying size lower case fonts with a circle or leaf shape with letters on the side of each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Letters from the People / Friedlander, Lee., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11031-11246
Scope and Contents

Friedlander has photographed letters, numbers, words and graffiti which he gleaned mainly from the streets and walls of buildings in the United States; hence the title, Letters from the People. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Lists / Cory, Jean-Jacques., 1971

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Identifier: CC-20496-20893
Scope and Contents

Cory is a pseudonym of Richard Kostelanetz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Littera Scripta Manet: A History of the Roman Alphabet / Ellis, Elsi Vassdal ; Zapf H ; Goudy F ; Morison S ; Lubalin H ; Baskerville J ; Peignot C., 1983

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Identifier: CC-14088-14393
Scope and Contents

The author describes the history of the typeface using a layout in which each letter of the alphabet is printed at the top of the page with a different typeface that incorporates text. The traces the history of each letter. Text at the lower half of the page layed out in three columns provides the history of a different typeface, one each to a page. The typefaces include among others, Baskerville, Helvita, Optima, Times Roman, Univers, Bernhard Fashion, Hellena, Casion Openface, Clarendon, Avant Garde, Quadrata, Souvenir, Tiffany, Copperplate Gothic, Bodoni, Serif Gothic, and Brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[Love Letters] / Baker, Jan., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42291-44301
Scope and Contents

This was Baker's annual Valentine's gift to the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004