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The Closed Book
Potential Motions, Breezes, Random Events.

Item date(s): 1997

Karen O'Hearn  - (book artist)
Sjoerd Hofstra  - (book artist)
J. P. Blanchard  - (text by)
Rollo Woolley  - (text by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 377mm
Binding: Cloth; Leather; Slipcase - brown fabric
Inscription: Signed by both artists.
Edition: #8/20

Sub-type: Photo book

Place publication: Amsterdam & New York
Publisher: ZET

Additional notes:
Three volumes (Two folio and one quarto). The folios bound in cloth and the quarto in leather with cloth chemise, housed together in a brown cloth slipcase.

Text #1 by J. P. Blanchard entitled "My Ascent Was Perpendicular" from his "Journal of My 45th Ascension, being performed in America, on the ninth of January, 1793" and text #2 "And He Was Falling, Falling" from "The Pupil" by Rollo Woolley, 1942. Photograph found in flea market in Brooklyn, NY. Sky photographs taken from various Weather and Climate text books.

Ref: GB/12447



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