Composition No. 1.

Saporta, Marc.

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Place Published: London
Publisher: Visual Editions
Date Published: 2011
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 978095656925
Book Id: 60372

Description

First Printing of this edition. Octavo. 8-1/2 x 5-1/4". Drop-back box wth loose pages; a Fine copy, as New. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. // Published as "VE3", with diagrams by Salvador Plascencia, and an introduction by Tom Uglow. "If the story doesn't capture you, maybe you should start again." Design by Universal Everything. | "VE3 is a re-imagining of a book originally published in the 1960s. The book is the first ever "book in a box", called Composition No. 1 by Marc Saporta. When we say book in a box we mean: quite literally a book that comes in a box with loose pages. Each page has a self-contained narrative, leaving it to the reader to decide the order they read the book, and how much or how little of the book they want to read before they begin again. In so many ways, Composition No.1 was published ahead of its time: the book raises all the questions we ask ourselves today about user-centric, non-linear screen driven ways of reading." ~ from the publisher. Visual Editions is a London-based book publisher. We think that books should be as visually interesting as the stories they tell; with the visual feeding into and adding to the storytelling as much as the words on the page. We call it visual writing. And our strap line is "Great looking stories."

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