Correspondence Art (1984)

Was able to borrow a copy from the library. The price on Amazon was $125. Libraries...there's still a place for libraries in the Internet Age. So far, just thumbing through, it's full of images and very entertaining. Good for ideas.

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Comment by Mail Art News on April 22, 2023 at 12:07pm: here's the table of contents anyway https://artpool.hu/MailArt/chrono/1984/Correspondence.html

Comment by Mail Art News on April 22, 2023 at 12:00pm: ok the publisher doesn't seem to be in business anymore, so we can't talk them into reprinting it. Maybe someone has one of the editors (Carl Loeffler, Michael Crane, Mary Stofflet) in their network and can convince them to reprint. There's obviously some demand for the title. With the price online anywhere from $125 to $300, the best idea for someone who wants to save money is to borrow from the library. Inter-library loan if your own library doesn't have a copy.

Comment by Carien van Hest on April 22, 2023 at 10:22am: Looks like a wanna-have!

Comment by William M on April 22, 2023 at 8:05am: the book that introduced me to mail art in the 80s. checked it out from the library multiple times. still kicking myself for not hunting down an actual copy back when it was affordable.

Comment by Mail Art News on April 22, 2023 at 1:02am: That would be great if it was a downloadable pdf somewhere. It's 522 pages, with an image every two or 3 pages, which is too much for me to scan, but I will include a few here and then a few more when I blog about it later.

I can imagine the above postcard somehow contributed to the development of the video game Sim City, but I have no proof of that.

Comment by CtlAltDel on April 22, 2023 at 12:30am: Very cool. Would be great to scan it and have it as a downloadable PDF....but then that would breach copyright.

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