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  Matriarchal Design Futures: A Collective Work In Progress

  Ayako Takase, Heather Quinn Snyder, Tycho Horan, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Volume (unpaged), 22 cm. Edition of 200 numbered copies. Workbook design by A. Takase, H. Snyder Quinn, and C. Rosas. Printed and bound by Tycho Horan at the Binch Press / Queer.Archive.Work studio. Accompanied by a pencil with the title stamped in gold on white. Pencil stamped at DWRI Letterpress, Providence, RI. Includes a sticker and postcard-size publication information card. Risograph. Clear plastic coil binding.Library has copy 197. RISD Alumni, A. S. Quinn, GD 1996; A. Takase, ID 1999; and RISD Faculty: A. Takase, T. Horan, Dan Wood. Purchased at Multiple Formats, Boston 2024.

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  Abracadabra

  Kelli Anderson, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  56 unnumbered pages : color illustrations.

  Edition of 50. Published as a companion volume to the exhibition Abracadabra Letterform Technology, Center for Book Arts October 7 - December 10, 2022. Each book was risograph printed and hand bound by Kelli Anderson. Cover design has pullout tab. Issued with Letraset rub-off sheet, translucent letterform sheet, cardboard spirographic disc, and perforated paper screen. Five items in pocket mounted inside back cover. Metal fastener binding.

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  Urgency Reader

  Paul Soulellis, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  252 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. Edition of 110 numbered copies. Read more and download complete Urgency Reader 2019 here."Urgency Reader is a quick assembling of texts, risograph printed in Pawtucket, RI, and bound as a book at the last minute to launch at the Odds and Ends Art Book Fair at Yale University Art Gallery on December 6, 2019. Suggested topics from the open call included: urgency, craft, queerness, gender, transformation, kinship, race, survival ..."--cover wrapper. "Inspired by Omnibus News #1 (1969), Assembling (1970-87), and other assembling publications, Urgency Reader is an experiment in publishing as a gesture of call and response ..."--cover wrapper."queer.archive.work"--stamped on wrapper. Loose sheets stapled. Yellow paper back cover sheet with list of contributors. "Edited by Paul Soulellis, December 2019"--page [4] of cover. "Suggested topics from the open call included: urgency, craft, queerness, gender, transformation, kinship, race, survival , post-apocalyptic practice, futurity, pedagogy, surveillance capitalism, death of capital, radical publishing, decolonization, augmentation, resistance, sci-fi, collective care, joy."-- Publisher's website. Library has copy no. 24. Editor Paul Soulellis is an artist and RISD Faculty member based in Providence, RI.

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  Thank You For Your Interest in This Subject

  Paul Soulellis, Library of the Printed Web, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  46 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, 28 cm. Cover title. "Printed Web Crisis Editions, February 2017" "A selection of web pages at whitehouse.gov before and after January 20, 2017."-- page [4] of cover. Page-by-page comparisons of 21 whitehouse.gov web pages from the Obama and Trump administrations on issues such as civil-rights, women, education, seniors and social security, disabilities, immigration, veterans, climate change, health care, etc.

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  S.

  J.J. Abrams, Doug Dorst, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  xiv, 456 pages : illustrations. Konfidentiell letter (2 leaves) [insert between pages viii-ix] + Pollard State University : VMS accused of ... (1 leaf) [insert between pages 10-11] + Xerox copy of journal article (1 leaf) [insert between pages 20-21] + Newspaper clipping (2 pages) [insert between pages 32 -33] + Telegram (2 leaves) [insert between pages 54-55] + 1 newspaper clipping/memo (1 leaf) [insert between pages 68-69] + Letter from Desjardins (1 leaf) [insert between pages 86-87] + Letter from Jen (4 pages) [insert between pages 100-101] + 1 Brazil postcard [insert between pages 112-113] + 1 photograph of stone wall [insert between pages 130-131] + 1 Birds of Brazil postcard [insert between pages 178-179] + 1 postcard of palms [insert between pages 190-191] + 1 postcard of a beach [insert between pages 192-193] + 1 Pictorial Brazil postcard (20 April near Marau) [insert between pages 200-201] + So ... My Uncle Zeke (5 pages) [insert between pages 202-203] + 1 photograph of woman [insert between pages 242-243] + 1 newspaper clipping within 1 greeting card [insert between pages 256-257] + 1 map on napkin [insert between pages 306-307] + 1 in memoriam card [insert between pages 360-361] + Letter from J (4 pages) [insert between pages 376-377] + Letter from Esmerlinda Pega (1 leaf) [insert between pages 416-417] + 1 decoder wheel [insert between end leaf and pages 3 of cover]. Altered book. Issued in slipcase. Title and statement of responsibility from slipcase. "Bad Robot, Melcher Media."--Spine of slipcase. Title page and cover title of volume inside slipcase: Ship of Theseus / V.M. Straka. Imprint on title page: Winged Shoes Press, New York, 1949. Title page and page [3] of cover printed with "stamps" of Laguna Verde High School Library; spine includes a Dewey call number label. Includes 23 items purporting to be documents concerning the "author," V.M. Straka, and his "translator," F.X. Caldeira from the Straka Arkiv; decoding wheel, letters, postcards and notes by the "readers," Jennifer and Eric; and other related materials. Marginalia printed in various colors. "A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey. The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him. The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears."--Slipcase. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  It is Almost That (Box)

  Siglio Press, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  8 booklets, 1 leaf , 2 sheets : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. A boxed set of nine folded and saddle-stitched booklets with photocopies or silkscreened dust-jackets signed by authors / artists. Found Pages from Antinova's Memoirs / Eleanor Antin -- Nude film / Fiona Banner -- Time / Ann Hamilton -- Inspection / Jane Hammond -- Psychic / Susan Hiller -- Dorchester boxers / Helen Kim -- A house of dust / Alison Knowles -- Notes for the translation / Molly Springfield -- Hexen II; 4 diagrams / Suzanne Treister -- From the journal Notes on living locally / Erica van Horn.

  Inspired by the Great Bear pamphlets produced by Something Else Press in the 1960's, the booklets are in a signed and numbered edition of 85 plus 15 unnumbered hors commerce. Housed in a hinged wooden box (25 x 17 x 10 cm) with bronze metal clasp, grey felt-lined interior bottom, and purple ribbon marker. Top of box is stamped with title and publisher. One loosely issued leaf serves as title page and lists participating authors / artists. Published in conjunction with the book: "It is almost that : a collection of image+text work by women artists & writers" (edited by Lisa Pearson. Los Angeles : Siglio ; New York : D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers, 2011) ."Psychic" by Susan Hiller and "Hexen II / 4 diagram" by Suzanne Treister are accompanied by sheets, loosely issued and printed on one side. Library has copy no. 50.

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  SHV

  Irma Boom, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [2136] pages : illustrations (some color). Book commissioned by Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, chairman of SHV Holdings, and designed by Irma Boom in editorial collaboration with art historian Johann Pijnappel to celebrate the centenary SHV. Edition of 500 copies in English and 300 copies in Chinese. Printed by Rosbeek, Nuth, Netherlands. Three sheets of stamps are mounted inside the front and back covers. Decorated fore-edge papers with a poem in Dutch and a color illustration of a field of tulips. SHV Energy is a family-owned multinational organization that consists of a group of specialised energy companies

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  Charles Meunier's plaquette, 1900, La Relieuse | The Bookbinder : a rare and beautiful depiction of the bookbinder in medallic art.

  Henry Morris, Charles Meunier, Maurice Favre, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 folded leaf; 1 pewter plaquette. Text written and plaquette created by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. 1 folded leaf in blue cloth case stamped in silver. Pewter plaquette fits in frame in case. The promotional plaquette of bookbinder Charles Meunier is a reproduction of a work by Maurice Favre exhibited in 1903. It depicts a bookbinder at her sewing frame. Lettered on reverse "Aux amis la maison du livre 1900, Ch. Meunier." (To the friends of the 1900 book house, Ch. Meunier.). Gift of the Joseph Paulsen family. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

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  Poesia concreta : Indirizzi concreti, visuali e fonetici. | Concrete poetry: concrete addresses, visual and phonetic.

  Carlo Belloli, Ernesto L. Francalanci, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  155 p. ill. 23 cm. Esposizione a cura di Dietrich Mahlow e Arrigo Lora-Totino. Ca' Giustinian, Sala delle Colonne, 25 settembre-10 ottobre 1969. (Exhibition curated by Dietrich Mahlow and Arrigo Lora-Totino. Ca 'Giustinian, Sala delle Colonne, 25 September-10 October 1969.) On cover: Mostra di poesia concreta. (Exhibition of concrete poetry.) At head of title: La Biennale di Venezia. (The Venice Biennale.) Catalog by Carlo Belloli, Ernesto L. Francalanci.

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  World Geographic Atlas : a composite of man's environment

  Herbert Bayer, Rand McNally and Company, Container Corporation of America, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  368 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, 41 cm. Preface by Herbert Bayer, Aspen, 1953. "Rand McNally and Company printed pages 1-72, 81-168 as well as the Index and assembled and bound the book."--Preface, page 4. "Why Container Corporation publishes an atlas. In 1936 Container Corporation published an atlas which had some unusual features. It was enthusiastically received at the time ... Because of the advent of World War II, great political, social, and economic changes have taken place ... Consequently, a new atlas at this time seems appropriate."--Foreword, page 5. 2200 diagrams, graphs, charts and maps. Includes index (pages 282-368).

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  Future Books: Industry, Government, Science, Arts, Vol. I Overture

  Marjory B. Milne, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  volumes illustrations (some color) portraits 30 cm. Editor: Marjorie B. Milne. Produced by Adprint. Cover illustration and design by G.A. Adams. Printed in photogravure by Harrison & Sons Ltd. London. Cover, binding and offset printing by Jerrold & Sons Ltd. Norwich. Advertisements in letterpress by W.S. Cowell Ltd. Ipswich; Alabaster Passmore & Sons Ltd. Maidstone; Thos. Forman & Sons Ltd. Nottingham. The photogravure and offset parts have been printed on Mellotex Paper made by Tullis Russell & Co. Ltd. Markinch Scotland. Information graphics. Casebinding. Library has Volume I. Overture & volume IV. Transformation.

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  Future Books: Industry, Government, Science, Arts, Vol. IV Transformation

  Marjory B. Milne, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  volumes illustrations (some color) portraits 30 cm. Editor: Marjorie B. Milne. Produced by Adprint. Cover illustration and design by G.A. Adams. Printed in photogravure by Harrison & Sons Ltd. London. Cover, binding and offset printing by Jerrold & Sons Ltd. Norwich. Advertisements in letterpress by W.S. Cowell Ltd. Ipswich; Alabaster Passmore & Sons Ltd. Maidstone; Thos. Forman & Sons Ltd. Nottingham. The photogravure and offset parts have been printed on Mellotex Paper made by Tullis Russell & Co. Ltd. Markinch Scotland. Information graphics. Casebinding. Library has Volume I. Overture & volume IV. Transformation.

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  Women and Work

  Gertrude Rosenblum Williams, Isotype Institute, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  128 pages : illustrations (some color, including maps) ; 22 cm. Series: The new democracy "Designed and produced by Adprint Ltd London ; Copyright 1945 by Adprint Ltd London ..."--title page verso. "First published by Nicholson & Watson in association with Wells Gardner Darton & Co Ltd, London, 1945"--title page verso. Contents: The scope of women's work. The wartime revolution -- The rise of the "dependent" family -- The effect of marriage -- Law and custom -- The work women do. Changes in numbers and jobs -- The middle-class woman -- Woman's dual role. Differences in pay -- Do women need less? -- The economic factors -- Workers and wives -- Public opinion and the married woman worker -- Women and work in the post-war world. Some effects of the war -- The double-job woman -- The part-time worker -- Women and the community. Photographic Editor: Paul Rotha. "Reading list": page 128. Information graphics. Book has ink property stamp on front endsheet: Ministry of Labour & National Service, Factory Department, Information Service. Case binding.

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  Human Problems in Industry

  Norah M. Davis, Marie Neurath, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. Series: New democracy. "With 12 pictorial charts in colour designed by the Isotype Institute and 80 photographs." "Designed and produced by Adprint Ltd. London"--title page verso. Contents: Introduction -- Choosing jobs and workers -- Doing the job -- Warning signals -- Why we work -- Outlook for the future."Reading list": page [128]. Includes bibliographical references. Added Author: Marie Neurath, designer.