Price: £775
Subject: Private Press
Published Date: 1993 1993. 1992
Stock Number: 74962
(Your basket is currently empty)Description: 11/15 COPIES of each book, the first printed on laid paper imbued with rusting pins, rear pastedown red, front pastedown with printed red fringe, the second comprises intaglio prints (printed on both sides of black squares of Japanese Usumino paper) suspended within windows in each page, the third, printed from photo-etched zinc plate on kozo-sulphite silk tissue, pp. 18; 12; 12; 8vo, black boards with inset white label with title printed in red, linen-cotton paper-backed Ingres paper boards, with inset label at outer edge, title printed vertically, wrappers with tissue window allowing title of first page to show through within chemise of black textured boards with title faintly inscribed in pale gold, all housed in black slipcase, fine
Publication Details: [Tuscaloosa, Alabama], 1993 1993. 1992
Notes: A highly successful emotive triptych, concerning various aspects of female existence, the shared aesthetic across the three works contributing to a sense of shared experience across generations. The text of Defensive Book is derived from a manual supplied to female undergraduates on their arrival at college, highlighting the potential threats of campus life in a list of advisory orders, 'Don't tell anyone you live alone', 'Keep the curtains closed', punctuated by the repeated 'Don't trust anybody', the diminishing page sizes, which allow more pin points to emerge (painfully) at the page edges,...more
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