Johanna Drucker. Tongues: A Parent Language
Self-published, 1981, in an edition of 90, this copy monogrammed and numbered 89/90 on rear. Single accordion-folded sheet, 22.7 x 10.5 cm, 12 pp. Letterpress with multi-colour serial prints.
The book was created as a New Year’s greeting at the beginning of 1982. It is based on a text by Firth, The Tongues of Man, to which Drucker applied a mathematical process of extracting words. First every other word, then every third, fourth etc. Copy with moderate creasing and handling wear, fine copy. Scarce.