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Last Pages
Last PagesRahel Zoller2024Edition Taube Perfect-bound softcover200 pages6.25 × 9.25 in. closedOffset printing Review by Michael Hampton In her extended collection of illustrated final page samples, torn from discarded books found in various street book swaps, recycling bins and gutters of European cities during the summer of 2022, Rahel Zoller presents the reader with an extended…
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Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings
Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate ReadingsJanelle Rebel2024The Everyday Press Perfect-bound softcover with French folds353 pages5.25 × 7.75 in. closedLetterpress cover, offset inside Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings is a bibliography of bibliographies. Not just any bibliographies, though — author Janelle Rebel is both an artist and a librarian, and the collected bibliographies reside at that same…
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Two Blank Books
The Collected Poems of Donald J. TrumpBrad Freeman20245.75 × 6.5 in. closedSingle-signature clothbound hardcover40 pagesInk jetEdition of 50 I Have Nothing to Say, and I am Saying ItLandry Butler20246.25 × 9.25 in. closedPerfect-bound hardcover200 pagesDigital printing This month’s review departs from my usual format, just as November 2024 has been an unusual month. I am reviewing two books together, and the books are, not…
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Tender to Empress
Tender to EmpressMaureen AlsopWet Cement Press2022 8 × 8 in. closed114 pagesPerfect-bound hardcoverInk jet Tender to Empress is a collection of visual poems by poet, artist, and psychologist, Maureen Alsop. These digital collage-poems began as a gallery installation, but the book has its own dynamics, thoughtfully pairing pages into spreads and sequencing the poems toward…
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Prisoners’ Inventions
Prisoners’ InventionsAngeloTemporary Services (Brett Bloom and Marc Fischer)Edited by Mairead Case and designed by Partner & PartnersHalf Letter Press2020 8.5 × 5.5 in. closed200 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverDigital printing Prisoners’ Inventions is what the title suggests: a compendium of devices designed, built, and used by people incarcerated in US prisons. First published in 2003 with WhiteWalls, this…
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本の本の本
Antoine Lefebvre本の本の本 2021Antoine Lefebvre Editions 21 × 10.5 in. open48 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverOffset printing “The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.” Sol LeWitt, “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art,” Art Forum, 1967. 本の本の本 is a conceptual photographic artists’ book stemming from Antoine Lefebvre’s travels to Japan. Each duplex-printed page in the perfect-bound paperback has nine square photographs of…
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One Star
Zak JensenOne Star2023 4 × 6 in. closed124 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverDigital printing Zak Jensen’s self-published book One Star collects one-star customer reviews of seasonal affective disorder lamps interspersed with stock photographs of the Sun. A bookmark accompanies the book; on one side: the title, edition size, artist’s name, and date of publication; on the other: a…
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Stock Pile
Stock PileAreca RoeDesign by Kelly MunsonForeword by Sheila Dickinson2021Self-published, printed by Edition One 8.5 × 11 in. closed90 pagesPerfect-bound softcover with French foldsLaser Stock photography is an uncanny reflection of reality. Its sanitization and anonymization of familiar settings function as a trick mirror, an almost-real representation that subtly but indelibly differs from what we encounter…
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Copy No. 1
Copy No. 1Edited by Vanessa Norton and Steven Trull2022Wasted Books 6 × 7 in. closed74 pages plus a single-sheet insertionPerfect-bound softcoverDigital printing Copy No. 1 is the first issue of a new periodical, a “magazine of recycled materials,” published by Wasted Books. As a celebration of plagiarism in all aspects of creative production, this debut…
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Necrology
NecrologyLawrence Levi2021Printed by Conveyor Studio 5 × 7 in. closed48 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverDigital offsetEdition of 100 There really isn’t much to say about death. Each metaphor for it feels imprecise; each explanation of its mechanics or significance says too little or too much. Where consciousness ends, so too do art and science or any other way…
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