Books On Books Collection – Suzanne Moore (III)

Dreamings (2023)

Dreamings (2023)
Suzanne Moore
Artist’s manuscript. Softcover, handsewn. Cloth-covered box with handwritten and painted title pastedown on the spine. H368 x W178 mm. 17 pages. A unique edition. Acquired from the artist, 15 April 2024.
Photos: Books On Books Collection and artist.

Dreamings (2023) follows the artist’s Question Series, begun in 2008 considering questions of life and art while exploring the letter Q – “that quirky letter of distinct design” as Moore calls it. Other works in the series include:

Thirteen Questions  (2008), drawn from Pablo Neruda’s The Book of Questions (1991) [Libro de las preguntas (1974)], unknown location.*

Studies in Love the Question (2016), now at the Letterform Archive.

Inquiry (2019), unknown location.*

Seeing Red: Seven Questions (2019), unknown location.*

Trust (2019), now at the Boston Athenaeum.

The Question (2021), drawn from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet. Now at Baylor University.

Your Question, Please (2022), unknown location.*

Rescuing Q (2023), now at the Bodleian Libraries.

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Books On Books Collection – Tord Nygren

The Red Thread (1988)

The Red Thread (1988)
Tord Nygren
Hardback, casebound, sewn. H305 x W 215 mm. [30] including pastedowns. Acquired from Better World Books, April 2025.
Photos: Books On Books Collection.

The Swedish expression “den röda tråden” translates best as “the common thread”, the thing that links together otherwise disparate things and experiences. The literal translation, however, works best for Tord Nygren’s Den Röda Tråden (1987), leaving us to follow the red thread that the clown offers to the children on the front cover. The thread wraps around to the pastedown and across the fly leaf chased by the runaway carousel horse …

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