An Alternative Memoir
BUTLER, Jennifer James Jennifer Georgina. [The Yellow Book]. London: Erasmus Publishing. 2010.
8vo. Publishers black papered fold down box; Yellow cloth with blindstamped lettering to cover; unpaignated; very minor staining to back cover otherwise fine.
Signed by the author, Jennifer Butler
A radical experiment in book design from Jennifer Butler in collaboration with Amsterdam-based world renown designer Irma Boom, sometimes referred to as "The Queen of Books", this is an alternative autobiography of a family overcoming the plight of alcoholism. Written with the incorporation of over 1000 diligently preserved postcards that span ten years, it relays both meticulously and very intimately, the tangential story and emotional movements of the Butler family.
During the genesis of the book, consisting of a three-year collaboration between Boom and the Butler family, she also decided to include the Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf, who took portraits of the three.
As well as achieving many prizes of the same standard as the prestigious Gutenberg‑Preis, Boom's work is also included in the permenant collection at MoMa.
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