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Towards an Ofay Aesthetic

Item date(s): 1978

Dikko Faust
Timothy Cohrs
Ada Whitney  - (endpapers by)
R. Clarke Davis  - (photography by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 184mm
Inscription: Signed by the authors.
Edition: #46/52


Place publication: Madison, WI
Publisher: Purgatory Pie Press

Additional notes:
Being the annotated text of a myth told by Timothy Cohrs on April 10, 1975 within the temple of Ofaginzies Abattoir which was constructed by Dr Dikko in The Crypt at Beloit College. Cultural Custodial Serice.

Colophon: "Special a-ofay papers limited to this edition handmade by Dr Dikko in Madison, Wisconsin including endpapers transfigured by Ada Whitney in NYC; 3 photos of the Beloit ceremony by R. Clarke-Davis, the obscure Mid-western photographer; an itineran's 1052 photograph of, and a sigil drawnin 1957 b, the child Dikko . . . Set and printed by this Dikko in Madison until the move east, Wpring 1978, resumed NYC at Center for Book Arts Spring, then Summer '79, torn down assembled & bound 52 copies, each covered in a relic of the curtains of the temple, for a third, final true release, full moon after fall equinox 1979."

Sewn onto two visible string bands

Ref: GB/10753







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