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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Amer. 2009 10-270	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

1 case : chiefly col. ill.; 30 x 30 x 10 cm.

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Note

"Written and designed by Julie Chen ... Letterpress printed from photopolymer plates by Julie Chen and Alan Hillisheim [i.e. Hillesheim] ... There are 100 copies in this edition"--Colophon, in "The answer book."
Title page information from case.
"Henri Ducharme and Laura Norin supplied all the mathematical formulas and equations that appear in the book ... The intricate patterns of lines that appear with the equations are origami crease patterns by Robert J. Lang and are used with his kind permission"--"The answer book," p. [3-4].
"The piece is comprised of 8 sections of rigid square pages that are hinged together"--Publisher's description. There are also 4 square sections with Plexiglas windows, revealing a single word. These 12 sections are attached to the ouside of the central structure and fold out to a pattern according to the instructions in "How to unfold this book" (sheet mounted on inside of box top); diagrams and instructions for refolding on sheet mounted on tray inside box bottom. A black felt cloth for display and study of the work (87 x 87 cm., representing the size of the unfolded piece) is folded and inserted in a space at the top of the central structure.
"The answer book" (1 booklet ([16] p.) : ill. ; 8 x 8 cm.) is placed in a recess in the top of the central structure.

Binding (note)

Issued in black cloth-covered clamshell box with printed and illustrated labels on top and spine.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2009 10-270

OCLC

431483819

Author

Chen, Julie.

Title

A guide to higher learning / Julie Chen.

Imprint

[Berkeley, Calif.] : Flying Fish Press, 2009.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 29; signed by Julie Chen.

Binding

Issued in black cloth-covered clamshell box with printed and illustrated labels on top and spine.

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Place of Publication

United States California Berkeley.

Added Author

Ducharme, Henri.

Norin, Laura.

Lang, Robert J.

Flying Fish Press. Publisher

Hillesheim, Alan. Printer

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2009 10-270