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The Last Word
Ur-text. Volume iii

Item date(s): 1994

Peter Rutledge Koch


Pages: unpaged
Size: 405mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: #20/25


Place publication: Berkeley, CA
Publisher: Peter Koch, Printer

Additional notes:
Composed in monotype Reproducing Bold and printed letterpress on Mohawk Superfine paper. Hand-bound by Daniel E. Kelm in various metals. Covers are photo-etched zinc, lined with doublures of oxidized brass. Primary sewing is braided Dacron thread holding each signature to an external brass spine rod covered by aluminum tube segments, leaving space for a weaving of braided silk thread which connects the covers and signatures. Black and red Japanese-cloth-covered portfolio with magnetic fore-edge flap.

"The binding, a collaboration with Daniel Kelm, is a perfect resolution to the problem of articulating the impersonal machine-like elegance of the full metal jacket."

Ref: GB/15361



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