Publication One, Published Impulsively
by Nordine, Ken
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- Condition
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- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
[Chicago]: Ken Nordine, 1956. Single sheet, printed on recto and verso and folded four times to create sixteen panels. Light wear, else fine.
Ken Nordine is best known for his "word jazz" recordings, first issued on Dot Records in 1957. A prolific voice-over artist whose career spanned decades, one critic noted that "Ken Nordine can pontificate on any small object and make it resonate with the profundity of consciousness and the euphony of a beautiful piece of music." This rare publication precedes the recordings; the printed background of the cover repeats the phrase "word jazz" throughout. Nordine writes in the contents (in which "the intent of the contents is to make myself naked with my clothes on") that he is "on words," whereas "Dick Tyler is on xylotypography." The design of the object precedes the work that Tyler would soon be producing under the auspices of the Uranian Press in New York, an imprint of his Uranian Phalanstery, which produced many chapbooks, broadsides and limited art editions. No copies in OCLC.
Ken Nordine is best known for his "word jazz" recordings, first issued on Dot Records in 1957. A prolific voice-over artist whose career spanned decades, one critic noted that "Ken Nordine can pontificate on any small object and make it resonate with the profundity of consciousness and the euphony of a beautiful piece of music." This rare publication precedes the recordings; the printed background of the cover repeats the phrase "word jazz" throughout. Nordine writes in the contents (in which "the intent of the contents is to make myself naked with my clothes on") that he is "on words," whereas "Dick Tyler is on xylotypography." The design of the object precedes the work that Tyler would soon be producing under the auspices of the Uranian Press in New York, an imprint of his Uranian Phalanstery, which produced many chapbooks, broadsides and limited art editions. No copies in OCLC.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Triolet Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2387
- Title
- Publication One, Published Impulsively
- Author
- Nordine, Ken
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ken Nordine
- Place of Publication
- [Chicago]
- Date Published
- 1956
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Triolet Rare Books, ABAA
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Los Angeles, California
About Triolet Rare Books, ABAA
Triolet Rare Books, member ABAA/ILAB, specializes in twentieth century art and literature with a focus on modernism, livres d'artistes, poetry, and the avant-garde.
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Recto
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.