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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 55m

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 56m

The reality is that hardbacks are now usually just some cheap covered boards glued to a paperback. The old convention of ‘library binding’ is long gone. In terms of pricing trade hardbacks are a racket… 20 quid for something that costs not much more than a paperback to produce.

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 10h

Uniformbooks will be at the Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social on Fri 24 and Sat 25, with a selection of our titles—if there are any you'd especially like, please email in the next few days ([email protected]) and we'll make sure we bring them along for you.
uniformbooks.co.uk

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 4h

Programmes! Pick up a free one at Small Publishers Fair in @conwayhall.bsky.social next week, Fri 24+Sat 25 October.

Or take a look now here tinyurl.com/3p427jpj for the 66 publishers, Erica Van Horn exhibition and readings, launches and talks. All free.

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BotCarrión @botcarrion.bsky.social · 6h

In the old art, a page may not be an element of a structure, here begins the new art of making books.

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 6h

Cardboard research.

hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 13h

It's on the website now, so: I'm Co-I on a new AHRC Curiosity Award, The Many Lives of Cardboard, with Antonia Thomas (Highlands and Islands) and Lucy Razzall (National Archives). Please consider this permission to send me any and all cardboard trivia gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 6h

Pictorial.

The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · 7h

Published by Esso, this 1932 illustrated guide to Britain is full of the most amazing illustrated maps by A. E. Taylor. So very of their period and now it seems very scarce indeed

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Modernism in Metro-Land @modinmetro.bsky.social · 10h

New Malden Library, Kingston upon Thames

1939-41

A.R. Goldthorp and F.C. Otton

bit.ly/472v2in

A black and white photograph of New Malden Library

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 10h

Uniformbooks will be at the Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social on Fri 24 and Sat 25, with a selection of our titles—if there are any you'd especially like, please email in the next few days ([email protected]) and we'll make sure we bring them along for you.
uniformbooks.co.uk

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 11h

Balloon!

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 1d

Kurt Schwitters
Untitled
1937

Prob. made in Norway where in Jan 1937 Kurt followed his son Ernst into exile, the Nazis having begun confiscating his work from German museums. '1920' on the mount was a misattribution by the gallerist to whom Ernst sold several of Schwitters' pictures in the 1950s

A beautiful little collage on paper. 10.8 x 8.6 cm image on a 24.8 x 18.4 cm mount.

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Handmade index tabs.

Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 2d

C17 commonplace book index belonging to Whitelock Bulstrode (MS 3244, container 1.1) @ransomcenter.bsky.social. Can’t help but think immediately of @djbduncan.bsky.social and his splendid work on the history of the book index

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 3d

John Bevis, 'Cloud Study'; Dymo tape edition, 1981.
“There is always a danger that the use of any system of names based on types shall lead to the neglect of everything not typical.”—Arthur W. Clayden, Cloud Studies, 1905.

Two white cardboard boxes on a wooden background, with a rolled black Dymo tape label and white text.

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 4d

“tinged”

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 4d

When she first showed the rotting piece, at the ICA, it split and they had to close the gallery. It hung around…

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Put ours in a month ago, and they’re looking perky… green shoots all looking forward to the frosts. (Peter Warlock on the radio.)

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 5d

3D printing.

ilfant press • Lisa Hasegawa @ilfantpress.bsky.social · May 4

new book / zine available now!
A Brief Study on 3-Dimensional Typewritten Patterns, Volume No. 1

measures 4.5” x 5.5” folded, 8 pages + cover
$20 includes 3-d glasses and free shipping to the states. please dm me to purchase.
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#typewriterart #typewriterpattern #artistsbooks

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Like a galvanised envelope.

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Light of the world.

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Light of the world.

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 7d

Never heard of The Clientele i'm afraid... at least you didn't think i meant The Cardigans.

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 7d

thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Posthumous LP of the Week: Cardiacs' LSD

Cardiacs' LSD is a triumph of creativity and friendship over adversity, and a testament to the enduring uniqueness of Tim Smith’s artistic vision, says Sean Kitching

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 7d

Interesting that you call them contemporary, in that they sort of disappeared, died (well, one literally), and have generally had a very slow but continual output since the 1980s. They do seem to sit outside of time, which Sean Kitching very nicely said at the end of his article on the new record:

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