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6 empty bookcases
- Title
- 6 empty bookcases / by Sjoerd Hofstra, in collaboration with Karen O'Hearn.
- Author
- Hofstra, Sjoerd
- Publication
- Amsterdam ; New York : Published by ZET, 1996.
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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. Neth. 1996 10-274 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- [14] p. : ill.; 33 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Six empty bookcases
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Artists' books – Netherlands – 20th century.
- Artists' books – United States – 20th century.
- Mechanical works.
- Cut-paper works.
- Note
- "An edition of 12 copies and 2 a.p."--Colophon.
- Includes 5 pop-up constructions representing empty bookcases; the 6th bookcase image is a sliding construction on title page.
- The text is reproduced from A text-book of physics, by G.A. Wentworth and G.A. Hill (1898), p. 370-371, 190-191 and 106-107, and Larousse encyclopedia of astronomy, by Lucien Rudaux and Gérard Henri de Vaucouleurs (1959), p. 86-87 and 246-247.
- Binding (note)
- Publisher's black cloth boards, with bookcase image stamped in blind on front board; issued in black cloth-covered clamshell box.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Neth. 1996 10-274
- OCLC
- 39820689
- Author
- Hofstra, Sjoerd.
- Title
- 6 empty bookcases / by Sjoerd Hofstra, in collaboration with Karen O'Hearn.
- Imprint
- Amsterdam ; New York : Published by ZET, 1996.
- Local Note
- Spencer Coll. copy is no. AP #2; signed in pencil by Hofstra.
- Binding
- Publisher's black cloth boards, with bookcase image stamped in blind on front board; issued in black cloth-covered clamshell box.
- Place of Publication
- Netherlands Amsterdam.United States New York (State) New York.
- Added Author
- Wentworth, G. A. (George Albert), 1835-1906. Text-book of physics. Selections.Rudaux, Lucien, 1874-1947. Astronomie. English. Selections.O'Hearn, Karen.ZET (Firm) Publisher
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Neth. 1996 10-274