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The baby book

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll+ Counterculture E46 1965	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

Additional Authors

Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994.

Description

[37] leaves : all ill.; 28 cm.

Subject

Genre/Form

Artists' books – United States – 20th century.

Note

Imprint information from colophon.
Edition of 500 copies, numbers 1-10 numbered, signed, and accompanied by an Elmslie-Brainard watercolor collaboration. 10[sic]-50 numbered and signed. --Justification page.
One of two publications by Elmslie and Brainard that were patterned after mass-market, genre publications. The other work, Game Calendar (1967), comprises Brainard's pin-up-girl drawings accompanied by Elmslie's four-line poems.
Presents pages on which to record the infant's daily progress, such as by affixing a lock of hair after baby's first haircut, recording baby's first words, etc., interposed with Elmslie's psychedelica and Brainard's drawings.

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Binding (note)

Call Number

Berg Coll+ Counterculture E46 1965

OCLC

838076737

Author

Elmslie, Kenward.

Title

The baby book / by Kenward Elmslie and Joe Brainard.

Imprint

[New York] : [by Kenward Elmslie and Joe Brainard], 1965.

Local Note

Berg Collection copy unnumbered.

Binding

Issued in illustrated card-stock wrappers, staple-bound with black cloth spine.

Access

Restricted access; request permission in holding division.

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Added Author

Experimental literature, American -- 20th century.

Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994. Artist

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Counterculture E46 1965