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1. Pretend

Description: Portfolio composed of overlaping leaves fastened with velcro; Includes two essays: Goodbye to Easy Listening by Adrian Piper and Race Against Time by Mary Anne Staniszewski; Pages are loose with content on front and details on back; Pages are held by a folded sheet which is contained within portfolio

2. I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now

I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now

Description: Includes bibliographical references; Book contains gatefold pages, pop-up images, cutouts, and tabs which can be pulled to change the image on a particular page

3. Callisto

Description: Consists of 9 sheets, 28 x 49 cm., some irregular to accommodate illustrations, joined end to end on backing and folded accordion-style to 28 x 25 cm; Printed in green, gold, or black; Illustrated wrapper in linen clamshell box with batik decorated cotton cover

4. Bunnies and bees

Bunnies and bees

Description: Volume 3, P018; Each print is a reproduction of a painting or drawing by Ryden, originally exhibited in 2001-2002; Prints are 8 x 10 high quality lithographic printing on cardstock with an embossed border issued in a Japanese silk covered box (28 cm.); Prints are interleaved with guardsheets

5. Spin off

Description: Manipulated black and white photographs and text throughout book; Silver covers

6. The stars

Description: An artist's book comprised of three prints by Celmins and text assembled from "descriptions of the stars from around the world" --Front cover flap. Center fold pullout of abstract starscape on vellum paper.

7. AT lanta 1945+50

AT lanta 1945+50

Description: Small pamphlet attached to book by blue string; Brightly colored pages with occaisonal black and white photographic plates; Some pages have cut-outs

8. Blinky: the friendly hen

Blinky: the friendly hen

Description: Series of black and white photographs accompanied by narrative text

9. How to read Donald Duck : imperialist ideology in the Disney comic

How to read Donald Duck : imperialist ideology in the Disney comic

Description: Originally published in Chile as: Para leer al Pato Donald, thought it looks like a comic book on the outside, this book is a critical analysis of the Disney cartoon Donald Duck/

10. Difficulty swallowing : a medical chronicle

Difficulty swallowing : a medical chronicle

Description: Documentation of diagnosis, hospitalization and death of the artist's girlfriend from leukemia. The story is told through personal notes, the reports of nurses, doctors, various medical forms, lists of questions for the doctors and photographs. Rather than seeming clinical, these very real artifacts of the final struggle of this young woman are heartwrenching.

11. Crocodile tears: brief fictions re-sounding from the proposal in Variable Piece #70-1971, to photographically document the existence of everyone alive

Crocodile tears: brief fictions re-sounding from the proposal in Variable Piece #70-1971, to photographically document the existence of everyone alive

Description: Green covers; Black and white images above accompanying text

12. A few palm trees

A few palm trees

Description: Black and white isolated images of palm trees with geographical information; Second half of book is blank; Black covers

13. Beauty's only screen deep

Beauty's only screen deep

Description: John Fekner's photographs explore NYC graffiti comenting on society's video/television watching indiference to the poverty and toxicity around us and the threat of nuclear war. The photo essay culminates in several photographs of a project in which Fekner collaborated with a graffiti artist to paint a mural inviting people into a bomb shelter in a building that had been bricked up completely. Two short essays at the beginning and end of the book are included.

14. Absence

Description: Absence is Yoon's reaction to the events of September 11, 2001, when two jets collided with the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. The 121 page book has no markings or printing of any sort; instead it is illustrated with the cut aways from each page. The cutaways resemble a tiny round hole for the first nine pages before expanding to two adjacent squares, representing the foot print of the WTC. The last page shows the surrounding buildings. Yoon has created a book that is about what is no longer in the world, just as she has excised the material from within the book.

15. Comics

Description: Contains three comics: The story o' my life, People, ya gotta love 'em, and I'm grateful! I'm grateful!; Black and white line drawings

16. Sittings, 1979-1980

Sittings, 1979-1980

Description: Catalogue of an exhibition held December 5, 1980-January 10, 1981; Color and black and white photographs; Introductory essay by Carter Ratcliff

17. Medicine wheel

Description: The front cover of book features an image of a work by Drury titled Medicine Wheel. Text within the book documents the creation of Medicine Wheel by making paper from plants available during each month of the year, and collecting other natural materials for the project. Drury's project occured between August 16th, 1982 and August 15th, 1983.

18. Suicide notes

Description: Published in cooperation with several of the author's exhibitions; Black and white images and handwritten text

19. Intersections and animations

Intersections and animations

Description: Fifty black and white drawings, printed on white paper are interleaved with black paper pages containing 50 of Winters' notational poems. The poetry, which became important to Winters in the 1990s is in the form of notes taken in preparation for drawing or making other types of art, though the poems in this book do not necessarily correspond with the drawings.

20. Decide who you are: texts

Decide who you are: texts

Description: Bound on the right with overlapping cover which folds to the left; Each text has a leaf number and date; Collection of texts

21. Ross Bleckner: page three

Ross Bleckner: page three

Description: Collection of black and white photographs; Photos are blurry; Subject matter of photos is sometimes text

22. Seven cycles : public rituals

Seven cycles : public rituals

Description: Documentation of several exhibitions, projects and performances of the artist's work. Contents include the artist's essays, notes, sketches and photographs, both reproductions of the work and photographs of installations and performances/happenings.

23. TV Guides : a collection of thoughts about television

TV Guides : a collection of thoughts about television

Description: 35 p. Blue cover with title "TV GUIDES A collection of thoughts about television Edited by Barbara Kruger" in white lettering.

24. Kiyoko

Description: 14 p. "Deluxe edition is cased in a variation of the Japanese portfolio structure, with bone clasps"--Publisher's website. Haikus by Sara Pirkle Hughes, with artwork by her twin sister Amy Pirkle, telling the story of their grandmother, who left her home in Japan as a young mother to begin a new life in the 1950's American South. Design, printing, artwork, and handmade paper by Amy Pirkle

25. The chain

Description: The pages of this book are accordion folded and held in a hard case with cover, spine and back but are not attatched to it; Consists mainly of photographs but also contains Cheryl Lai's Letter of a Madman

26. Satisfaction

Description: Series of black and white photographs which portray four people acting out the dialogue which accompanies the images on the opposite pages

27. This book is extremely receptive: a flipbook

This book is extremely receptive: a flipbook

Description: Includes text from television programs and computer error messages; As pages are flipped, revolving satellite dish and frequency graphs are animated; Metallic silver covers

28. Rhymes for modern times

Rhymes for modern times

Description: The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) awarded this book a prize for design and content; Collection of poems accompanied by black and white images

29. My art book

Description: Handwriting on left hand side of pages, images on right; Divided into sections

30. Wild blue yonder

Wild blue yonder

Description: Collection of images from a motion picture accompanied by text and graphics

31. Lines in two directions and in five colors on five colors with all their combinations

Lines in two directions and in five colors on five colors with all their combinations

Description: Each page consists of a different combination of background colors and line colors

32. The captain is out to lunch and the sailors have taken over the ship

The captain is out to lunch and the sailors have taken over the ship

Description: Encased in plastic slipcover

33. The crossroads novelty corp spring catalogue

The crossroads novelty corp spring catalogue

Description: Collection of black and white images and text; Includes order form for products shown inside book

34. Miropol

Description: Nineteen ink and brush drawings followed by a poem simply bound in black paper covers with a stapled binding.

35. Simple harmonic motions : based on selected poems from Days by Hank Lazer

Simple harmonic motions : based on selected poems from Days by Hank Lazer

Description: Folded hard cover opens to reveal accordion fold pages of poems; If pages are turned to the left the poems can be read, but if the pages are opened to the right they are blacked out; Each poem is dated and numbered; Case contains CD of poems being read by the author

36. The Janos book

Description: A story told through letters, photographs, maps, memorabilia, poetry, conversation and paintings spun into 29 full color collages that illustrate the revelation of a secret, an ancestry, an identity, a family --Artist's website

37. Tropos

Description: Rhomboid-shaped book with spine constructed from a wooden dowel; Single hole drilled through all but the cover pages; Brightly colored images combined with text

38. Snow dancing

Description: Pages filled with narrative text; Color image on cover; No illustrations within book

39. Picture the Southwest

Picture the Southwest

Description: Pages are cut horizontally into two distinct sections: the top sections are illustrated and the bottom sections are printed with captions; Orange covers; Black and white photographic images; Silver sticker on front cover contains title and author

40. Lived through experience

Lived through experience

Description: Black and white imagery combined with text; Some vellum pages; Some pages contain gatefold pages

41. Read yourself Raw

Read yourself Raw

Description: 86 p A commercially printed book reproducing comic strips from Raw Magazine's first three issues. "Pages from the rare first 3 issues of the comics magazine for damned intellectuals"--Cover.

42. Wild history

Description: Compilation of 18 stories each with its own author; Each story is accompanied by a single black and white image of the author; Includes contents page and list of photo credits

43. Jack's book : a tale of two stories rolling along S'kcaj koob : the same track in separate worlds

Jack's book : a tale of two stories rolling along S'kcaj koob : the same track in separate worlds

Description: Accordion fold book with hard cover and back; Pages are double-sided with one half of the story printed on one side and the other half on the opposite side; Pages vary in color

44. The complete illustrated Shakespeare : sonnet CXXX in one volume

The complete illustrated Shakespeare : sonnet CXXX in one volume

Description: Miniature book with letterpress printed text and linocut illustrations. Sewn in signatures and bound in a paper case using a chain stitch which creates the pattern CXXX. Enclosed in a modified paper slipcase. Handset, printed, illustrated and bound by Anne Bingham.

45. Mending wall

Description: This elaborate variation on an accordion book unfolds from top to bottom. Each unfolded page, unfolds from right to left revealing a stanza of Robert Frost's poem, and a pop-up interior wall between the two sides. As the book is completely unfolded, the wall stretches from the top to the bottom, reading good fences make good neighbors. With a beaded pull to open the book and dust jacket.

46. They called her styrene etc.

They called her styrene etc.

Description: Each page shows an individual work by Ed Ruscha; Each work consists of a single word or combination of a few words

47. Square planet

Description: This book is made of a circle-shaped sheet of paper, with a smaller circle cut in the center, accordion-folded to form a conical shape. Painted images are reproduced to depict scenes from life in a town.

48. To those who see

To those who see

Description: Frostic's signature block prints of the natural environment of Michigan accompany her poetry. Various colors and types of paper are used for both text and images; in some cases images can be seen through semi-transparent pages layering the landscapes with additional images or with the poems. Many pages have torn or deckled edges.

49. Long story short: home is where the heart is

Long story short: home is where the heart is

Description: Color images combined with text; Images are abstracted but still recognizable in most cases; Many gatefold pages throughout book; Cover wraps around book from back page

50. Heads bowed, eyes closed, no one looking around

Heads bowed, eyes closed, no one looking around

Description: Collection of black and white photographs and text; Includes some toned photographs