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“Long live the pamflet…”
It was fifty years ago that I came across a four-page pamphlet titled Cricket in the Writings of James Joyce and was especially struck by how even the narrowest subject might be pursued, developed, and finally published.
In this respect it's true to say that the plain form of the pamphlet has persisted throughout the history of publishing, its flexibility and limited extent perfectly suited to a single concern or to simple gatherings of text and images.
THE—A Concordance by Colin Sackett
The censored content in the first edition of T. E. Lawrence’s The Mint is not conventionally redacted—by substituted asterisks, or emphatic black overprinting—but rather, made absent, and this bibliographical work records an inventory of its silent unprinted nothings.
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INCISIONS—A Micro Anthology by Michael Hampton
The methodology used to cull these samples from diverse sources into a coherent bank which examines the art (reprobate art to some), of cutting up or tearing books, is a citational process known as ‘sophistication’.
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MKBP—Twenty-four pieces by David Matless
The pieces in MKBP are made of words and phrases appearing sequentially in place entries from Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buckinghamshire, published in the ‘Buildings of England’ series in 1960. A few years later, all of these places would fall within the orbit of the new planned city of Milton Keynes.
978 1 910010 42 6
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The titles in this black and white series are of standardised format, printed digitally on Cyclus recycled and thread sewn.
Size 170 x 130mm
Copies of each issue are £5.00, including UK postage. They may be ordered by emailing: orders@uniformbooks.co.uk
SUBMISSIONS
This dummy page plan shows the maximum content (just over 2000 words of text and 4 image pages) for proposals for future pamphlets. While there are no specifications about form and subject there is an inclination for the bibliographical, the extracted, and the disrupted; the intention is that this modest series will proceed in a particularly ad hoc way.
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