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Cowrie shell piece : (Baroque and rococo strains) / Christy Sheffield Sanford ; art by Dean Bornstein.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sanford, Christy Sheffield.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists' books--United States.
- Artists' books.
- United States.
- Shells.
- Penn Provenance:
- Johns Hopkins University (donor)
- Sanford, Christy Sheffield (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (14 unnumbered pages) : illustrations, 1 map ; 65 x 51 cm folded to 23 x 11 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York City : Flockophobic Press, 1991.
- Notes:
- Title from p. [1] as folded.
- Prose poetry and dialogue.
- "Text--Christy Sheffield Sanford; linoleum cuts--Dean Bornstein; design--A.S.C. Rower ... [blank]/175"--Colophon.
- A single sheet folded into three rows of five pages each (including the cover in one row) and mounted on cloth boards, with three shells sewn on cover. Text on one side, map of European and North African coastline on other side.
- The size as folded includes the height of the cover.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Rare copy is unnumbered.
- ISBN:
- 0962358592
- 9780962358593
- OCLC:
- 25389595
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