additives
[Toronto]: imprimerie dromadaire, [1988]. Duodecimo, 17.8 x 12.7 cm. Perfect bound in beige card covers. A roundel, with the title in red and lettering and the author’s name in black, is printed to the upper cover. Red, yellow, and black die-cut letters are also pasted to the upper cover. Plain red endpapers. Unpaginated [pp. 36, plus explanatory note tipped to the inside of the lower cover]. A fine copy. The text was set in Clarendon Book and a variety of unidentified wood types; printed on Nideggen paper. One of 100 copies, this being number 24. Signed and numbered in blue ink by Paul Dutton. Item #365
“An additive is a substance that, when added in small quantities to another substance, changes that second substance to something else. This work, a poetic Abecedary, treats the letters of the alphabet as additives, altering individual words with single letters that create second words bearing slightly altered relationships to the title-words of the one-become-two-word poems.” — Paul Dutton.
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