View allAll Photos Tagged DustJacket
The Public and Private Life of Books.
edited by Jason Camlot & J.A.Weingarten.
Waterloo, Wilfred Laurier University Press, [may] 2o22. ISBN 978177112568o.
6 x 9, 76 sheets white bond folded to 3o4 pp in 19 signatures of 4 sheets each & glued into plain ivory heavy bond endpapers with 3/4" black cloth appliqué head- & tailbands in 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 straw cambric-covered boards printed black letterpress spine only, interiors all except 7 pp printed black offset, in matte PVC white dustjacket with 3-7/8" flaps printed 4-colour process offset recto only.
cover sculpture by Brian Dettmer; photographer unacknowledged.
13 contributors ID'd:
Cameron Anstee, Nicholas Bradley, Jason Camlot, Anna Dysert, Sherrin Frances, Emily Kopley, Alberto Manguel, James Maynard, Linda Morra, Meaghan Scanlon, Andrew Stauffer, Bart Vautour, J.A.Weingarten.
includes:
i) "What is a library? Why do people collect", by [--?--] (front dj flap; prose précis with passing reference to jwcurry)
ii) Private, Public, and Personal Libraries In Situ and in Circulation, by Jason Camlot (pp.1-27; prose in 4 parts & Notes with a paragraph on (iii) below in part
–4. "Unpacking The Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books presents" (pp.18-24; curry reference p.24))
iii) jwcurry's Room 3o2 Books: The Small-Press Bookstore as Library and Archive, by Cameron Anstee (pp.21o-226; prose in 5 parts:
–1. "Sometimes at the impetus of small-press agents, sometimes due to scarcity," (pp.21o-211; with quotes by curry from
––a. "dec 98 Carl Spadoni:" (epigraph, p.21o)
––b. Marilyn Irwin reads at VerseFest Volunteer Appreciation w/ jwcurry..., by Rob McLennan (curry quoted in, p.21o))
–2. The Minor Archive (pp.211-214)
–3. Room 3o2 Books (pp.214-219; with quotes by curry from
––a. other indications (p.215)
––b. a bpNichol cyclopœdia B (p.215)
––c. "room 302 books" (p.216)
––d. as random as it'll get (p.216-217, again 217)
––e. The Jwcurry Experience, with Chris Kubsch (2 on p.217)
––f. "dec 98 Carl Spadoni:" (2 on p.218, 2 on 219)
––g. about just the curry section of yr dissertation (2 on p.218)
––h. "jan 99 Carl:" (p.219)
& about curry from
––i. Curvd H&z and Avant-Garde/Small Press Publishing in Canada, by Gregory Betts (p.215; 2 quotes)
––j. "January 28, 1999 Dear John (jw curry)", by Carl Spadoni (2 on p.219))
–4. A Beepliographic Cyclopoedia (pp.219-224; with quotes by curry from
––a. in support of A Beepliographic Cyclopoedia (pp.219-22o
––b. A Beepliographic Cyclopœdia: A Gallery Of Rectos In Progress (p.221)
& about curry from
––c. The Street Passage of Hand Print, by Nicky Drumbolis (p221, via Rob McLennan's Not Exactly Two Cents Worth: jwcurry's 1cent))
–5. NOTES (pp.224-226))
iv) "In My End Is My Beginning": The Library as Heraclitean Archive, by J.A.Weingarten (pp.227-238; references curry p.233)
v) Bibliography, compiled by [the editors?] (pp.239-256; includes 11 references to curry pp.24o (Betts), 242 (curry), 248 (Kubsch), 25o (McLennan))
In April 1970, during the glory days of the Apollo space program, NASA sent astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise on America’s fifth mission to the moon. Only fifty-five hours into the flight of Apollo 13, disaster struck. A mysterious explosion rocked the ship, and soon its oxygen and power began draining away. Commander Lovell and his crew watched in alarm as the cockpit grew darker, the air grew thinner, and the instruments winked out one by one.
In “Lost Moon,” Lovell and coauthor Jeffrey Kluger tell the full story of the moon shot that almost ended in catastrophe. What begins as a smooth flight is transformed into a hair-raising voyage from the moment Lovell calls out, “Houston, we’ve got a problem.” Minutes after the explosion, the astronauts are forced to abandon the main ship for the lunar module, a tiny craft designed to keep two men alive for just two days. But there are three men aboard, and they are four days from home.
As the hours tick away, engineers on Earth search desperately for solutions. The entire nation watches as one crisis after another is met and overcome. By the time the ship splashes down in the Pacific, we understand why the effort to rescue Lovell and his crew is considered by many to be NASA’s finest hour. “Lost Moon” was the basis for the 1995 movie “Apollo 13” directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise and Ed Harris.
Canadian Poems for Children.
edited by David Booth.
4th printing. Toronto, Kids Can Press Limited, "1989" [ie 1992?]. ISBN o-9211o3-9o-5.
6-15/16 x 9, 24 sheets white claycoat folded to 96 pp in 6 signatures of 4 sheets each, sewn pearl white in 7 double stitches & glued into 7-1/4 x 9-1/4 glossy PVC white bond-covered boards, all printed black offset with 3-colour process additions to all but 5 pp (8, 25, 29, 92, 93), in 7-3/8 x 9-1/4 glossy PVC white semigloss dustjacket with 3-11/16 & 3-1/2" rear flaps, printed 4-colour process offset recto only.
cover graphic by Kady MacDonald Denton.
56 contributors ID'd:
Milton Acorn, Margaret Atwood, Sandra Bogart, David Booth, Arthur S.Bourinot, Dionne Brand, Harriet Cooper, Anne Corkett, Shirley Daniels, Diane Dawber, Kady MacDonald Denton, John Paul Duggan, Dorothy Farmiloe, Sheree Fitch, Dan George, Elizabeth Gourlay, Emily Hearn, Robert Heidbreder, A.M.Klein, John Lane, Dennis Lee, Jean Little, Dorothy Livesay, Joanne Lysyk, Marguerite Mack, Brian MacKinnon, Carolyn Mamchur, Sol Mandlsohn, Sid Marty, Floris Clark McLaren, Florence McNeil, William H.Moore, Colin Morton, Susan Musgrave, Fran Newman, bpNichol, Alden Nowlan, Sean O'Huigin, Nancy Prasad, James Reaney, Duke Redbird, Joe Rosenblatt, Lois Simmie, Norene Smiley, A.J.M.Smith, Raymond Souster, Ken Stange, Myra Stilborn, Siobhan Swayne, George Swede, Harry Thurston, Miriam Waddington, Jane Wadley, Jon Whyte, Tim Wynne-Jones, Meguido Zola.
Nichol inclusion:
i) A path to the moon (p.21; poem, 24 lines)
also includes:
ii) [untitled graphic], by Kady MacDonald Denton (pp.2o/21; illustrates both Jon Whyte's Coyotes at left & Nichol's A path to the moon at right)
___________________________
as 3rd edition but with redesigned logo & colophon after Nelvana bought Kids Can
Lieutenant Thomas Currie 'Diver' Derrick, VC, DCM
Date of birth: 20 March 1914
Place of birth: Adelaide, SA
Date of death: 24 May 1945
Place of death: Tarakan Island, Borneo
Thomas Derrick was born on 20 March 1914 in Adelaide. He was the eldest son of David Derrick, a labourer, and his wife Ada. The Derricks were not well off and Tom often walked barefoot to attend primary school. He left school at 14, by which time he had developed a keen interest in sports. During the depression he subsisted on the proceeds of odd jobs; fixing bicycles, selling newspapers and working in a bakery. In 1931 he travelled to Berri, on the Murray River, looking for work which he eventually found in a vineyard at Winkie. He remained there for the next nine years.
He married Beryl Violet Leslie in 1939 and enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 5 July 1940. Derrick embarked for the Middle East with the 2/48th Battalion and soon proved himself to be an excellent soldier, gaining promotion to corporal while his unit was in Tobruk. In July 1942 he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his bravery and leadership at Tel el Eisa. At the end of that month Derrick was promoted to sergeant. By October his unit was in action at El Alamein, where he again served with distinction.
Derrick's unit returned to Australia in February 1943, training in north Queensland and Papua before helping to capture Lae in September. In November the 2/48th were in action at Sattleberg, overlooking Finschafen. Fighting amidst rugged terrain and under heavy fire from Japanese machine guns, Derrick performed the feat that earned him the Victoria Cross. Scaling steep cliffs, under fire, hurling grenades and using his rifle he cleared ten machine gun posts, making possible the capture of Sattleberg.
The 2/48th returned to Australia in February 1944 and in August Derrick was posted to an officer training unit. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in November. On 1 May 1945 he took part in the landing at Tarakan, Borneo. Later that month he led his platoon against a heavily defended position code-named Freda, gaining all but the highest knoll. That night a Japanese machine gun fired into the Australian lines. As he sat up to check that his men were all right, Derrick was hit by five bullets from the gun's second burst. He had been lightly wounded before, but recognised that this time his wounds were mortal. He died on 24 May 1945 and was buried in Labuan War Cemetery. A superb soldier, Derrick has also been described as a sensitive and reflective man - widely respected in the AIF he remains one of its better-known figures.
DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY
Thomas Currie (Tom) Derrick (1914-1945), vineyard worker and soldier, was born on 20 March 1914 in the Salvation Army hospital at Medindie, Adelaide, eldest son of David Derrick, a labourer from Ireland, and his native-born wife Ada, née Whitcombe. The Derricks were battlers. Tom walked, often barefooted, to two primary schools in succession—Sturt Street Public School in the city and Le Fevre Peninsula School, Port Adelaide. He left school as soon as he could, aged 14. By then he was a bit of a larrikin around the Port, venturesome and quick-witted, keen on boxing, Australian Rules football, cricket and gambling. During the Depression his cheeriness found him odd jobs, fixing bikes, selling newspapers and working for a local baker. Early in 1931 he and some mates rode their bikes about 140 miles (225 km) to Berri, on the Murray River, chasing work. 'Diver', as he was now nicknamed, did long spells in the local 'susso' camp, once living on grapes for a week, but in late 1931 talked his way into work on a vineyard at Winkie. He stayed nine years.
In the presbytery of St Laurence's Catholic Church, North Adelaide, on 24 June 1939 Derrick married Clarance Violet ('Beryl') Leslie. As with C. J. Dennis's Ginger Mick, whom in peace and war Derrick so much resembled, marriage gave his life a more serious purpose. He did not volunteer for the Australian Imperial Force until 26 June 1940 and enlisted on 5 July. Although never overtly religious, he became a convert to Catholicism (his wife's religion) in early 1945. When Tom was at the war, Beryl walked almost every day to the post office, hoping for news of him.
On 17 November 1940 Derrick had embarked for the Middle East with the 2nd/48th Battalion, which was to be the most decorated unit in the A.I.F. In that distinguished company Derrick was outstanding. At Tobruk, Libya (April to October 1941), his enthusiasm and aggression in patrolling enemy positions brought him promotion to corporal, and he was probably recommended for a Military Medal on 1 May 1941. An officer at this time described him as 'resourceful, brave, aware, humane, forever bending over backwards for his men'.
At Tel el Eisa, Egypt, on 10-11 July 1942 Derrick ran forward through a barrage of grenades, destroyed three machine-gun posts and captured over a hundred prisoners. He then inspired the defence against a counter-attack, wrecking two tanks with sticky grenades. Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, he was promoted sergeant on 28 July. At El Alamein in late October he showed his customary leadership and daring during a week of violent battle. Only forty-one of his battalion still stood at the end of that week, and Diver had been slightly wounded, but he destroyed three more machine-gun posts, and those who saw him were certain he had earned a V.C.
The 2nd/48th returned to Australia in February 1943 and trained in North Queensland and Papua before helping to capture Lae, New Guinea, in September. By 24 November the battalion was attacking the heights of Sattelberg, overlooking Finschhafen. Late that afternoon, while leading the advance platoon, Derrick confronted an almost vertical slope of thick jungle hiding Japanese machine-guns, and above that an open patch stretching menacingly 100 yards (91 m) towards the crest. Diver was told to withdraw, but he decided to go on. Covered by his mates, he scrambled hands and feet up the cliff, hurling grenades into enemy posts and clearing them out with his rifle. Even in peacetime the climb is barely possible, yet Derrick cleared ten machine-gun posts, stopping just short of the crest as dusk fell. It was one of the most astonishing feats of the war. He was awarded the V.C. (22 March 1944). In North Africa he had remarked that his D.C.M. had come in a Comforts Fund parcel; now he said that his achievement was due mainly to his mates.
In February 1944 the 2nd/48th again returned to Australia, and in August Derrick was posted to an officer-training unit. On being commissioned lieutenant in November, he became one of the few second A.I.F. men promoted from the ranks who rejoined their old battalions. On 1 May 1945 the 2nd/48th took part in the landing at Tarakan, Borneo, and soon pushed inland. On the 22nd/23rd Derrick led his platoon against a small hill, code-named Freda, thick with enemy defences. His skill and courage that day might easily have won him another V.C., but by night the enemy still held the highest knoll. Derrick spread out his men, then lay down on the jungle track to rest. At about 3 o'clock next morning a Japanese light machine-gun, on a fixed line, fired a burst down the track. Diver sat up to see that his men were O.K., the gun fired again, and five bullets caught him in an arc from his left hip to his right chest. He lay back quietly, and, after a time, said to a mate, 'I've had it. That's that. Write to Beryl'. He continued to direct operations until mid-morning. Then they carried him back, his grin and his courage never deserting him. He died on 24 May 1945 and was buried in Labuan war cemetery, plot 24, row A, grave 9. His wife survived him. (Sir) Ivor Hele's portrait of Derrick is held by the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
Derrick looked the archetypal digger: a fine photo of him on the dustjacket of Allan Dawes's 'Soldier Superb' (Sydney, 1944) became one of the best-known Australian images of the war. It shows a man fit, strong and stocky (he was 5 ft 7 ins [170 cm] tall), a deep tan matching his dark hair, a cocky grin stoking the laughter lines around his brown eyes. It suggests both the larrikin and the professional, both the man who stuck by his mates and the born leader. It leaves unstated the man with such brilliant tactical judgement, such concern for his men, such modesty, such courage, such flair for being a soldier. It does not reveal the man who collected butterflies, who wrote poetry and kept a wartime diary, who liked rhyming slang. It does not say that here is one of the finest fighting soldiers of the war.
Derrick displayed the most fearless bravery throughout four years of battle. When he might honourably have quit the field he insisted on going back. Very few soldiers can compare with him. War gave him distinction, but he gave life honour. He was an extraordinary man.
LONDON GAZETTE
Government House, Canberra.
2yd March, 1944.
AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES.
The KING has been graciously pleased to
approve the award of the VICTORIA CROSS
to: —
Sergeant Thomas Currie Derrick, D.C.M.,
• Australian Military Forces.
For most conspicuous courage, outstanding leadership and devotion to duty during the final assault on Satelberg in November, 1943.
On 24th November, 1943, a company of an Australian Infantry Battalion was ordered to outflank a strong enemy position sited on a precipitous cliff-face and then to attack a feature 150 yards from the township
of Satelberg. eant Derrick was in command of his platoon of the company. Due to the nature of the country, the only possible approach to the town lay through an open kunai patch situated directly beneath the top
of the cliffs. Over a period of two hours many attempts were made by our troops to clamber up the slopes to their objective, but on each occasion the enemy prevented success with intense machine-gun fire and
grenades.
Shortly before last light it appeared that it would be impossible to reach the objective or even to hold the ground already occupied and the company was ordered to retire. On receipt of this order, Sergeant Derrick, displaying dogged tenacity, requested one last attempt to reach the objective. His request was granted.
Moving ahead of his forward section he personally destroyed, with grenades, an enemy post which had been holding up this section. He then ordered his second section around on the right flank. This section came under heavy fire from light machine-guns and grenades from, six enemy posts. Without regard for personal safety he clambered forward well ahead of the leading men of the section and hurled grenade after grenade, so completely demoralising the enemy that they fled leaving weapons and grenades.
By this action alone the company was able to gain its first foothold on the precipitious ground.
Not content with the work already done, he returned to the first section, and together with the third section of his platoon advanced to deal with the three remaining posts in the area. On four separate occasions'he dashed forward and threw grenades at a range of six to eight yards until these positions were finally silenced.
In all, Sergeant Derrick had reduced ten enemy posts. From the vital ground he had captured the remainder of the Battalion moved on to capture Satelberg the following morning.
Undoubtedly Sergeant Derrick's fine leadership and refusal to admit defeat, in the face of a seemingly impossible situation, resulted in the capture of Satelberg.
His outstanding gallantry, thoroughness and devotion to duty were an inspiration not only to his platoon
and company but to the whole Battalion.
Sound Barrier – The story of high-speed flight, by Neville Duke and Edward Lanchbery 1953.
Neville Duke and Edward Lanchbery were test pilots who flew never-before tested aircraft in the jet age. Before that both as pilots in WW2.
Published by Cassell & Co. London. 118 pages 13cm x19cm with dustjacket.
Obituary of Duke :
www.theguardian.com/news/2007/apr/14/guardianobituaries.m...
Another book by Lanchbery 'Against The Sun' : www.flickr.com/photos/angeljim46/8512826346/in/photolist-...
Frank Clune's 'Try Anything Once - the autobiography of a Wanderer' describes his early years as an adventurer. Clune became a popular writer on Australian adventurers, explorers, bushrangers etc.
Published by Angus & Robinson, Sydney. Brown cloth boards with illustrated dustjacket, 242 pages 13cm x 18cm..
Inscribed to the Australian book collector,Len Woodward.
Okay, so, you asked for it. Right, maybe not you specifically but a couple people other than my mother suggested it might be nice if I offered some of my photos in an easy to take to the bathroom book format.
So, I finally did it.
Hey. I have medical bills to pay. Foot and ankle surgery isn't cheap. Yep, all proceeds will go toward medical bills accrued from my recent (and future) foot and ankle surgery. (The proceeds are minimal - I kept the markup really, really, scarily low because I'm a nice person and because I have self worth issues.)
I selected some of my favorite photos from the past few years on Flickr and published them in an 80 page book. Obviously not all my photos fit into an 80 page book so your favorite might not be in this edition. If anyone buys this I may consider a second/future edition. I put this together primarily during my bed-bound days post-foot surgery. It's looking like I may need another surgery so another edition may happen during that recuperation period. Yep. I put together a book on shoes while I was recovering from foot surgery. Oh the irony.
The inaugural edition is broken into chapters on: Boots, heels, sandals and sneakers. Something for everyone.
There are hardcover and softcover options (two price points). Both cover types are exactly the same with the exception of the dustjacket and binding on the hardcover.
So go on, don't hesitate, order now! It's a perfect gift for that arty weirdo your sister dates or the foot fetishist in your life.
by Richard Truhlar. [Toronto], Curvd H&z, [23] august 1984. 1oo copies issued as Curvd H&z #289 in 2 variants:
a) 9o trade copies (see www.flickr.com/photos/48593922@N04/8953552486/);
b) 1o copies #d & signed in black pencil by Truhlar at colophon rear & jwcurry last page, as described.
approx.3-3/4 x 4-11/16, 7 sheets tan wove folded to 28 pp, all printed black rubberstamp rectos only except last 2 leaves versos only, with 2-3/16 x 1-1/4 yellow kraft title page label printed red rubberstamp, sewn black in 2 doublestitches into plain 4 x 5-1/16 brown wirewove card wrappers with 3-11/16 x 4-11/16 yellow kraft broadside printed red & black silkscreen & mounted en face, in plain 4-1/8 x 5-1/8 clear acetate dustjacket with 7/8" flaps & 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 white kraft envelope with 1-3/8" tapered gummed flap rear, folded in half & printed black rubberstamp flap only.
cover & frontis by jwcurry.
Grissom's first flight assignment was piloting Liberty Bell 7, which flew a 15-minute, 37-second suborbital hop on July 21, 1961. It was the second manned flight of the single-astronaut Mercury spacecraft, and used explosive bolts on the door so that the astronaut could leave the spacecraft quickly after landing.
The flight proceeded without incident, but when Grissom landed, something prematurely triggered the hatch and caused the door to blow open. Grissom ended up in the water with a sinking spacecraft beside him. The recovery helicopter tried in vain to retrieve Liberty Bell 7 for a few minutes before picking up an exhausted Grissom. (The spacecraft was later retrieved in 1999 and is now on display at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center.)
"The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm" by Norman Hunter
Puffin Story edition first published by Penguin in 1946
This reprint published in 1950
Illustrations by W.Heath Robinson
Priinted with blank spine so accompanied by dustjacket (See adjoining scan)
Title: The Euphorbia Journal vol. 4;
Authors: various (dedicated to Werner Rauh. Madagascan Euphorbias, Euphorbias of Canary Islands, Succulent Euphorbias of Cape Peninsula of South Africa);
Editor: Strawberry Press, CA, USA;
Edition: first (1987):
Pages: 169 (273 color photos);
Sizes: 7-1/4" x 10-1/2";
Cover: hardbound w/color dustjacket;
ISBN 0-912647-02-3
ISSN 0737-8823
Cover photograph:
A close-up of the cyatha of the Euphorbia hallii.
Stepping onto the deck of the helicopter carrier Iwo Jima, Haise, Lovell, and Swigert wave to cheering sailors before going below for medical exams. According to the original flight plans, the recovery ship should not have expected the astronauts for another four days – after landing at Fra Mauro.
In April 1970, during the glory days of the Apollo space program, NASA sent astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise on America’s fifth mission to the moon. Only fifty-five hours into the flight of Apollo 13, disaster struck. A mysterious explosion rocked the ship, and soon its oxygen and power began draining away. Commander Lovell and his crew watched in alarm as the cockpit grew darker, the air grew thinner, and the instruments winked out one by one.
In “Lost Moon,” Lovell and coauthor Jeffrey Kluger tell the full story of the moon shot that almost ended in catastrophe. What begins as a smooth flight is transformed into a hair-raising voyage from the moment Lovell calls out, “Houston, we’ve got a problem.” Minutes after the explosion, the astronauts are forced to abandon the main ship for the lunar module, a tiny craft designed to keep two men alive for just two days. But there are three men aboard, and they are four days from home.
As the hours tick away, engineers on Earth search desperately for solutions. The entire nation watches as one crisis after another is met and overcome. By the time the ship splashes down in the Pacific, we understand why the effort to rescue Lovell and his crew is considered by many to be NASA’s finest hour. “Lost Moon” was the basis for the 1995 movie “Apollo 13” directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise and Ed Harris.
Sound Barrier – The story of high-speed flight, by Neville Duke and Edward Lanchbery 1953.
Neville Duke and Edward Lanchbery were test pilots who flew never-before tested aircraft in the jet age.
Published by Cassell & Co. London. 118 pages 13cm x19cm with dustjacket.
Nonsense Strategies for Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry.
by Marnie Parsons.
Toronto, University Of Toronto Press Incorporated, [december] 1994. ISBN o-8o2o-2983-3.
5-7/8 x 9, 8o sheets ivory cockle folded to 32o pp in 1o signatures (8 of 8 sheets each between 2 of 4), sewn white in 9 double stitches & glud into plain dark-filamented bright grey cockle endpapers & 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 red-printed white cloth-covered boards printed white heatstamp spine only with approx.1" red & white cloth appliqué head~ & tailbands, interiors all except 12 pp (vi, xiv, xvi, 2, 216, 236, last 3 leaves) black offset, in 6-1/4 x 9-5/16 glossy PVC white claycoat dustjacket printed emerald & burgundy offset recto only
cover unattributed.
12 contributors ID'd:
John Cage, Lewis Carroll, Paula Claire, Edward Lear, Dennis Lee, Daphne Marlatt, Steve MCaffery, bpNichol, Gertrude Stein, Colleen Thibaudeau, Luis D'Antin Van Rooter, Louis Zukofsky.
Nichol "contributes":
i) discarded text for SIX GLASGOW TEXTS, With Steve McCaffery (sound poetry score, p.163; as illustration for (iv:8) below)
ii) IN OUR LIVES. (visual poem [ie the "H" of ABC The Aleph Beth Book]; illustration for (v) below)
iii) WE MUST BE TO FREE (visual poem [ie the "T" of ABC The Aleph Beth Book]; illustration for (v) below)
also includes:
iv) 'as birds as well as words': Nonsense and Sound (prose in 9 parts, pp.12o-164; Nichol referenced parts
–4) 'Akin jabber': Nonsense, Poetry, Rhythm, and the Zukofskys' A (pp.135-146; quoted: Barry Ahearn, Jonathan Albert, John Arthos, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Randolph Chilton, Guy Davenport, Paul Dutton, Robert Haas, Julia Kristeva, Dennis Lee, Henri Meschonnic, Toril Moi, bpNichol, Bob Perelman, Ezra Pound, George P.Springer, Wallace Stevens, Paul Valéry, Andrew Welsh, James Winn, Celia Zukofsky, Louis Zukofsky; quotes include:
––a. Paul Dutton, bpNichol & The Past-Present of a Future Music (p.139)
––b. bpNichol, The Martyrology Book 5: Chain 4 (lines 429-456, pp.14o-141))
–8) "A New Way to Blow Out Candles': The Nonsense of Sound Poetry (pp.158-164; with illustration by Nichol & Steve McCaffery (see (i) above), Nichol references throughout))
v) 'A Silly Corpse'?: The 'L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E' Poets, Stein, and the Nonsense of Reference (pp.17o-215; Nichol referenced in part
–4. 'The Condition of Its Weirdness': The Shared Materiality of 'L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E' Writing and Nonsense (in 3 parts, Nichol references in part
––b. "ALLITERATION: One of the many 'musical' techniques employed in", pp.184-191; includes 2 visual poems by Nichol as illustrations (see (ii) & (iii) above) & references Nichol in text pp.189 & 233-234)
Landmark Books were a series of history books published in the 1950's for children. I loved reading them as a kid, but got most of them from the library where the had dull covers without dustjackets. I've been picking some up at thrift shops. I really enjoy the cover art, and since I seem to barely be able to make a dent in my monthly upload limit, I'm sharing them with you.
Title: Secrets de succulentes de Namaqualand;
Author: Florent Grenier;
Publisher: Florent Grenier (auto-edition);
Edition: 1st, January 2019 (1.000 copies);
Cover: soft under dustjacket;
Pages: 352 (1126 color photos);
Format: 24 x 18 cm;
Language: French;
ISBN 979-10-699-3309-5
Beneath the Southern Cross, A Story of Eureka by Helen Palmer 1954.
A history of the Australian Goldfields of the 1850s, told through the eyes of a young boy growing up in the goldfields, including the Miners Revolt at the ‘Eureka’ Stockade.
Published by FW Cheshire, Melbourne. Coloured dustjacket over light brown boards 104 pages 19cm x 13.5cm.
This copy signed by the author and includes an inserted handwritten letter from the author to Ian Turner, requesting a loan of a rare book.
Helen Gwynneth Palmer 1917-1979 was an Australian left-wing social activist, teacher and writer. Ian Alexander H. Turner 1922-1978 was also a noted Australian social activist, lawyer and historian.
The Eureka Stockade was a revolt by Victorian miners protesting against the imposition of miner’s licences and other restrictions by the Victorian Government and police troopers. The Stockade, led by a number of Irish miners was brutally put down.
A biography of Helen Palmer is here:
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/palmer-helen-gwynneth-11333
This copy from Ian Turner's library.
Dustjacket of the first Dutch edition of James M. Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice" in the translation of J.C. Bloem. Karavaan series (Boucher) #3, 1935.
London: Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, [2001]. First edition. Hardback, cloth with pictorial dustjacket. ISBN 071399455X. 325 pages. Condition 325g.
Ryszard Kapuscinski, the celebrated Polish journalist, first arrived in Africa in 1957, the year of Ghana's independence, and the year which marked the beginning of the end of colonial rule throughout the continent. "Then, over the next forty years, I returned whenever the opportunity arose. I travelled extensively. I avoided official routes, palaces, important personages, and big politics. Instead, I preferred to hitch rides on passing trucks, wander with nomads through the desert, be the guest of peasants from the tropical savannah ... This is therefore not a book about Africa, but rather about some people from there; about encounters with them and time spent together.' So although The Shadow of the Sun contains unforgettable, first-hand accounts of the main political events in Africa over nearly half a century - the civil war in Monrovia, the coup in Zanzibar, the genocide in Rwanda, the apparently endless war in Sudan - and many insights into the reasons why African politics takes the course it does, these are not the main impressions with which the reader leaves this extraordinary book. Kapuscinski shows how completely foreign the African frame of mind is to the European, how completely differently Africans conceive of time, the past and the family, how completely in thrall most of Africa's inhabitants are to nature's dominion. Of the population of southern Sudan, deprived of grain by war and the corruption of the warlords, he writes, 'We are here among a people who do not contemplate transcendence and the existence of the soul, the meaning of life and the nature of being. We are in a world in which man, crawling on the earth, tried to dig a few grains of wheat out of the mud, just to survive another day.' It is the quality of Kapuscinski's reflection which is so memorable.
Canadian Poems for Children.
edited by David Booth.
3rd printing. Toronto, Kids Can Press Limited, "1989" [ie 1991?]. ISBN o-9211o3-9o-5.
6-15/16 x 9, 24 sheets white claycoat folded to 96 pp in 6 signatures of 4 sheets each, sewn pearl white in 9 double stitches & glued into 7-1/4 x 9-1/4 glossy PVC white bond-covered boards, all printed black offset with 3-colour process additions to all but 5 pp (8, 25, 29, 92, 93), in 7-3/8 x 9-1/4 glossy PVC white semigloss dustjacket with 3-1/2" flaps, printed 4-colour process offset recto only.
cover graphic by Kady MacDonald Denton.
56 contributors ID'd:
Milton Acorn, Margaret Atwood, Sandra Bogart, David Booth, Arthur S.Bourinot, Dionne Brand, Harriet Cooper, Anne Corkett, Shirley Daniels, Diane Dawber, Kady MacDonald Denton, John Paul Duggan, Dorothy Farmiloe, Sheree Fitch, Dan George, Elizabeth Gourlay, Emily Hearn, Robert Heidbreder, A.M.Klein, John Lane, Dennis Lee, Jean Little, Dorothy Livesay, Joanne Lysyk, Marguerite Mack, Brian MacKinnon, Carolyn Mamchur, Sol Mandlsohn, Sid Marty, Floris Clark McLaren, Florence McNeil, William H.Moore, Colin Morton, Susan Musgrave, Fran Newman, bpNichol, Alden Nowlan, Sean O'Huigin, Nancy Prasad, James Reaney, Duke Redbird, Joe Rosenblatt, Lois Simmie, Norene Smiley, A.J.M.Smith, Raymond Souster, Ken Stange, Myra Stilborn, Siobhan Swayne, George Swede, Harry Thurston, Miriam Waddington, Jane Wadley, Jon Whyte, Tim Wynne-Jones, Meguido Zola.
Nichol inclusion:
i) A path to the moon (p.21; poem, 24 lines)
also includes:
ii) [untitled graphic], by Kady MacDonald Denton (pp.2o/21; illustrates both Jon Whyte's Coyotes at left & Nichol's A path to the moon at right)
The art of the dust jacket: A Christchurch Art Gallery exhibition Central Library Peterborough. Sunday 1 June 2014. File Reference: 2014-06-01-IMG_0169
Photo by Donna Robertson.
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
Publishing Canada's Writers
by Roy MacSkimming.
Toronto, McClelland & Stewart Limited, [16 september] 2oo3. [5ooo copies?]. ISBN 1-55199-o73-3.
6 x 9, 236 sheets ivory bond & 8 white glossy (4 sheets each between pp.136/137 & 28o/281) perfectbound into plain ivory heavy bond endpapers & glued into 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 oxblood linen(paper)-covered boards with 1-1/4" black cloth applique head~ & tailbands, spine only printed gold letterpress, interiors all except p.vi printed black offset, in 6-5/16 x 9-1/4 glossy PVC white bond dustjacket with 3-13/16" flaps, printed 4-colour process offset recto only.
cover photo by Jennifer Kinnard.
16 other contributors ID'd:
[--?--] Ashley, Lee Davis Creal, [--?--] Crippen, [--?--] Darg, Barrie Davis, Sally Gibson, D'Arcy Glionna, Mel Hurtig, Robert Lansdale, David Laurence, [--?--] McKenzie, Jean Milner, John Reeves, David Staines, Greg Tjepkema, David Zimmerly.
includes:
i) PRINTED IN CANADA BY MINDLESS ACID FREAKS (pp.167-195, chapter 8 of 16, prose in 6 parts, including:
--1. I (pp.167-17o; passing reference to bpNichol p.17o)
--2. On joining Coach House Press at twenty-two (pp.17o-173; Nichol quoted from Primary Days: Housed with the Coach at the Press 1965 to 1987; Journeying & the Returns & Borders referenced; p.172))
ii) ON THE BARRICADES (pp.197-217, chapter 9 of 16, prose in 5 parts, reference to Nichol as Coach House editor in part 2, Although the IPA had its practical side, p.2oo)
iii) A CLUTCH OF DREAMERS (pp.245-272, chapter 11 of 16, prose in 7 parts, including:
--2. Once there was a time before grants (pp.248-254, passing reference to Nichol/Talonbooks p.249)
--3. There are as many ways (pp.254-257, passing reference to Nichol/3-Day Novel Contest p.255))
Fan design (completely non-commercial and for fun) of the dustjacket for Jeffrey Thomas's Monstrocity. All layout was done in Microsoft Word, as part of a competition between myself and another designer to prove that it is the idea and not the tools that make a great cover.
All images are from Fritz Lang's film Metropolis.
J.M. Morrell (editor) - Four English Comedies
Penguin Plays 763, 1950
Cover design by Edward Young
Contents:
Ben Jonson - Volpone
William Congreve - The Way of the World
Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer
R.B. Sheridan - The School for Scandal
Hannes Bok, 1947.
Dustjacket for John W. Campbell .Jr. 1948 Hardcover.
From A Hannes Bok Treasury, 1993.
Title: EUPHORBIA JOURNAL volume 2;
Authors: various (nine articles of top authorities);
Publisher: Strawberry Press, California, U.S.A.;
Edition: first (1984);
Pages: 154 (over 200 color photos);
Hardbound w/color dustjacket;
Size:7-1/4" x 10-1/2";
ISBN: 0-912647-01-09
ISSN: 0737-8823
photo:
close-up of the flowering parts of Monadenium majus f. majus.
100 Voices • 500 Visions.
"Original text by Mark Kingwell and Christopher Moore / Photo research and visual narrative by Sara Borins".
2nd printing. Toronto, Doubleday Canada, 2oo2 (1st released in 1999). ISBN o-385-25893-3.
6-7/16 x 8-11/16, 128 sheets white claycoat folded to 512 pp in 32 signatures of 4 sheets each, sewn white in 11 doublestitches & glued into plain black construction paper endpapers & 6-3/4 x 9 matte PVC white claycoat-covered boards with approx.1-3/4" black cloth appliqué head~ & tailbands, all printed 4-colour process offset except 29 pp black only, 1 red only, 56 red & black only, i 6-3/4 x 9-1/16 acetate dustjacket with 4-3/8" flaps, all except rear cover printed white silkscreen verso only with red addition to flaps.
not even one of the cover photos is acknowledged.
35 contributors ID'd:
Walter Allward, Rick Archbold, Sidney Carter, Serge Clément, Adrian Dorst, Bryce Duffy, John Einerson, Robet Fréchette, [-?-] Gillat, Ted Grant, Pauline Johnson, Yousuf Karsh, Mark Kingwell, Michael Lambeth, Dennis Lee, Gwendolyn MacEwen, John McCrae, Christopher Moore, John Pearson Morris, Pat Morrow, bpNichol, I.M.Pei, Jake Peters, Richard Pierre, Denis Plain, Allan Plante, John Reeves, Michael Saint Jean, Michael Snow, Gabor Szilasi, Kryn Taconis, Chris Wahl, Robert Stanley Weir, Barbara Woodley.
Nichol's contributes:
i) Against Explanation (poem, p.41o)
also inclues:
ii) Voices 1970-1979, by Rick Archibald; in 1o parts, part 8 being "Barrie Phillip Nichol was a prodigious writer, editor, and performer, (prose, p.41o)
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
note: you'd think that the contributors list for a book purporting to feature "1oo voices" & "5oo visions" would number way into the hundreds but no; it's more often squibs about writers rather than any of their writing & the almost-complete-failure to acknowledge photographers (except Karsh) is downright shameful & deplorable. the editorial team on this book can go get fucked with something scaly with rust; may they suffer endless omissions of acknowledgement for their own works &, if given credit, may grievous errors occur in the spellings of their names (i've resisted here)
THE UNCENSORED WRITINGS OF ELSA VON FREYTAG-LORINGHOVEN.
by Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven; edited by Irene Gammel & Suzanne Zelazo.
Cambridge (USA), MIT Press, [december] 2o11. ISBN 978-o-262-o1622-3.
7 x 9, 11o sheets white claycoat in 19 signatures (17 of 6 sheets/2 of 4) sewn pearl white in 7 doublestitches & glued into white heavy bond endpapers printed burgundy offset both sides & 7-1/4 x 9-1/4 bugundy linen paper-covered boards printed silverfoil letterpress spine only, interiors all printed offset, black with multicolour additions throughtout, in 7-1/4 x 9-1/4 white mayfair dustjacket with 4-1/8" flaps printed 4-colour process offset recto only.
cover photograph by Man Ray.
9 other contributors ID'd:
Berenice Abbott, George Grantham Bain, Theresa Bernstein, Irene Gammel, André Kertész, Erwin Raupp, Man Ray, Charles Sheeler, Suzanne Zelazo.
includes:
i) introduction, by Irene Gammel & Suzanne Zelazo (pp.1-39; prose in parts includes part
–2. BODY SWEATS: DADA POETRY FOR THE NEW CENTURY (pp.6-16; with passing reference to "the polygeneric performances of the Four Horsemen" p.8))
AVANT-GARDE FOR THEE.
edited by Christian Bök.
Toronto, House Of Anansi Press Incorporated, [august] 2oo2. ISBN o-88784-18o-5.
6 x 8, 128 sheets ivory bond perfectbound into plain ivory bond endpapers & glued with approx.3/4" red cloth applique head~ & tailbands into 6-3/16 x 8-1/4 red linen paper-covered boards, spine only printed black letterpress, interiors all except 15 pp (1st & last leaves, viii, xvi, 16, 4o, 56, 8o, 154, 162, 18o, 2o8, 232) printed black offset, in 6-1/4 x 8-1/4 glossy PVC ivory heavy bond dustjacket with 3-3/4" flaps, printed black & red offset recto only with cream addition to covers & spine.
cover by Bill Douglas.
27 contributors ID'd:
Margaret Atwood, Christian Bok, George Bowering, Natalee Caple, Leonard Cohen, Matt Cohen, Christopher Dewdney, Bill Douglas, Graeme Gibson, Dave Godfrey, Daphne Marlatt, Steve McCaffery, bpNichol, Michael Ondaatje, Franc Reyes, John Riddell, A.S.Rouillard, Andreas Schroeder, Chris Scott, Gail Scott, Ray Smith, Audrey Thomas, Dominic Turner, Martin Vaughn-James, Derk Wynand, J.Michael Yates, Robert Zend.
Nichol inclusion:
i) FROM STILL (prose, pp.211-218; the concluding 8 pp from still)
also includes:
ii) bpNICHOL 1944-1988, by Christian Bok (prose bio, p.2o9; with a quote by Nichol from bpNichol (interview by Caroline Bayard & Jack David))
iii) STEVE MCCAFFERY 1947-, by Christian Bok (prose bio, p.219; passing reference to Nichol, Four Horsemen & Toronto Research Group)
iv) AFTERWORD, by Christian Bok (prose, pp.229-231; references Nichol)
THE MEDIUM AND THE MESSENGER.
by Philip Marchand.
Toronto, Random House Of Canada Limited, [january] 1989. ISBN o-394-22o1o-2.
6 x 9, 168 sheets tan newsprint & 4 white semigloss (between pp.16o/161) perfectbound with plain blue-filamented white wove endpapers & black & white cloth applique head- & tailbands into 6-1/4 x 9 plain black bond-covered boards with black cloth spinewrap printed silver letterpress, interiors all except 6 pp printed black offset, in 6-5/16 x 9 white claycoat dustjacket with approx.3-1/2" flaps printed 4-colour process offset recto only.
cover photograph (of the television) by Art James/portrait of McLuhan unacknowledged; design by Marc Cohen.
other contributors ID'd:
Peter Bennett, Thomasw William Cooper, John Culkin, John Ellis, Abbie Hoffman, Hugh Kenner, Wyndham Lewis, Stuart Mackay, Conrad Waldinger, Barbqara Wilde.
includes:
i) Acknowledgements (p.vii; prose with thanks to "Barry" Nichol)
____________________________
- 2nd edition, Ticknor & Fields, march 1989