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Poème d'amour / Warja Lavater.

Accession number
PML 251904.1-4
Creator
Lavater, Warja, 1913-2007.
Published
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1977.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Title from slipcase.
"La punaise... / enfoncée dans le mur / aimant un aimant"--Slipcase
"Poème d'amour / le mou et le dur / je pense donc je suis...donc je pense / bottes et pattes / quatre aperçus / signés et numérotés de 1-18 / 1977, tirage à sec / exemplaire ..."--Slipcase
Illustrated key to use to decipher contents of books on slipcase.
Library's copy is no. 12.
Issued in wooden box (9.1 x 16.6 x 4.1 cm). Books encased in clear plastic boxes with magnets to hold them in place in the box. Issued in paper slipcase with printed labels. Each volume is folded accordion style and has title and publication/limitation statement written in pencil on one side and the illustrated poem on the reverse.
"The Experimental work by Lavater is always original. ... She expresses herself in picture writing"--J.P. Wightman card file.
Description
4 volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 21 x 18 mm (each)
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Volume 1: black plastic cover with bronze and silver particles. Volume 2: white plastic cover with silver particles. Volume 3: gray, gilt, and black patterned plastic cover. Volume 4: pink plastic cover with white and silver particles.
Classification
Department