See Bonhams auction catalogue 15/12/2009, Lot 5122.

Reference note:
Edmond Jabes has noted, :Mark the first page of a book with a red ribbon, for the wound is inscribed at the beginning.: Buzz Spector's first publication with Granary Books, A PASSAGE, is a profoundly wounded book. Using the method of his unique altered bookworks, Spector has torn these pages in a sequence of lessening increments to make a cross section of his text. Each and every volume in the edition has been altered in the same way, leaving a shredded field of topographic characters whose 'miraculous' legibility gives further meaning to the poignant personal narrative Spector has written. A PASSAGE reminds us that the story a book tells its readers is a response to the caresses they bestow upon it.

Offset printing on Mohawk Superfine.

Exhibition notes:
Item 64 on Artists' Books in the Ginsberg Collection, with some South African Books from Other Collections.

Johannesburg Art Gallery

25 August to 27 October 1996

Item 8 on TEXTures: an exhibition of texts, textures and structure in artists’ books.

Archives & Special Collections, University of Johannesburg

5 March to 18 April 2014

Ref: GB/6087