Book

Portable document format / Dexter Sinister.

Record details

ISBN: 9781933128856
ISBN: 1933128852
Physical Description: 152 p., [48] p. of plates : ill ; 18 cm. + 1 postcard.
Publisher: New York : Lukas & Sternberg, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"The first part of this book comprises texts we've previously published elsewhere as PDFs in the Library at www.dextersinister.org, as loose stencil-printed signatures titled 'Every day the urge grows stronger' and as a bound version of those signatures titled 'Library book.' The second part of this book comprises a portfolio of ten images, collectively titled 'W.A.S.T.E. proof prints,' along with their accompanying extended captions."--Dexter Sinister website.

"This book, produced and published by Sternberg Press in an edition of 1000, is the inaugural publication of The Serving Library."--P. [8].

Formatted Contents Note:

A short account of the library ; We would like to share (some thoughts on a possible school badge) / Dexter Sinister -- Post-master / David Reinfurt -- Dispersion / Seth Price -- The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- Hanging up Moholy / Louis Kaplan -- Because therefore / Dexter Sinister -- Naïve set theory / Anthony Huberman -- 100. General Stumm invades the state library and learns about the world of books, the librarians guarding it, and intellectual order / Rob Giampietro -- Further notes from the underground / Giles Weaver -- Once it's typed it's published / J. Christopher Jones -- [infinity] hospitality / David Senior -- Biography/Exhibitions -- W.A.S.T.E. proof prints/Captions.