Pages: unpaged Size: 395mm Language: English Edition: #42/130
Place publication: Iowa City, IO Publisher: University of Iowa Center for the Book Cat. 157 Exhibition 1996
Additional notes: An elegy, and other poems. Signed by the author and the artist. In Joshua Heller catalogue #25/155.
Illustrated on page 37 of Book Arts in the USA by Richard Minsky, 1990.
Illustrated on page 35 of Dressing the Text: The Fine Press Artists' Book, 1995.
Illustrated as Lot 190 of The Ritter Collection of Modern Illustrated Books and Livres d'Artiste, Swann Auction Galleries, 5/5/09.
Reference note: One of Merker's last books that he worked on in collaboration with Don Howell, Alexa Dilworth, Jim Downey, David Wall, Joni Hopkins, Carla White, Ann Tremmel Wilcox, Lori Kuippers, Rebecca Johnson, Meg Williams, Jennifer Hughes, Marth Yoder, Karen Melcher, and Brenda Bremner. Binding designed by Pamela Spitzmueller and executed by her & Sally P. Key, Ralph C. Weber, and Lawrence Yerkes. An exceptional work that is considered one of Merker's typographical masterpieces. [Oak Knoll]
Exhibition notes: Item 157 on Artists' Books in the Ginsberg Collection, with some South African Books from Other Collections.
Johannesburg Art Gallery
25 August to 27 October 1996
Thoughtforms: The Page as a Liminal Field. JBCBA, WAM. Curated by Ciara Struwig. 24 March – 5 June 2026
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