Past Issues
For more information on all the artists, authors, presses, centers, etc. that have been discussed or showcased in JAB, see the JAB Index.
Past issues are available for purchase using the JAB Order Form [pdf], but some issue are no
longer available in original form and can only be purchased as
bound color laser-printed facsimiles. Selected issue are also
available online as text-searchable PDF files. More will be coming soon! We plan to post all the back issues as PDF files for reference. To purchase JAB issues 1-32, please use the Back Issue Order Form.
JAB32 | Fall 2012
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
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JAB32 Table of Contents
- Front Cover Design: Isabel Baraona
- JAB32: “The Portugal JAB”— Editor’s Note by Brad Freeman
- In Portugal: Authors’ Editions, Small Presses, Independent Publishers, + Book Artists:
Authors’ Editions, Small Presses, Independent Publishers, and Book Artists
Catarina Figueiredo Cardoso a+ Isabel Baraona
- Artists’ Books Not Found: An Absence in Portuguese Art Theory But Not in Portuguese Art Practice
Catarina Figueiredo Cardoso
- Visuality and Material Expressiveness in Portuguese Experimental Poetry
Rui Torres
- Words + Painting Exchange Roles: Concretism, Experimentalism, and Fine Arts in Portugal
Eduardo Paz Barroso
- Alternativa Zero: The Memory of Being Contemporary in Portugal
Eduardo Paz Barroso
- A Bibliography of Portuguese Experimental Poetry
Rui Torres + Manuel Portela
- Portuguese Comics + Artists’ Books
Pedro Moura
- Frenesi: A Publisher of Artists’ Books
Catarina Figueiredo Cardoso
- The Artists’ Book Collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art Library
Ana Barata
- The Library of the Serralves Foundation
Sonia Oliveira
- Inc.: Livros e Edições de Autor
- STET
Filipa Valladares + Pablo Paulo Catrica
- Oficina de Cego
Isabel Baraona
- Books Received
Claire Sammons
- SPECIAL FEATURE: Inside Back Cover
Artists’ book by Isabel Baraona; page from the recently released facsimile edition of Johanna Drucker’s 1977 artists’book from A to Z : OUR AN (Collective Specifics) an im partial bibliography
Colophon
JAB32 was offset printed on the Heidelberg GTO at the Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago by Jenna Rodriguez, Claire Sammons, and Mirabelle Jones under my supervision. Rodriguez and Sammons are Print Production Fellows and graduate students in the Interdisciplinary Arts Book and Paper MFA program at CCC. Jones is an intern and currently enrolled in the Book Arts/Writing MFA program at Mills College in Oakland. Digital files were imageset at CBPA on the Agfa Avantra 25. The paper The fonts are Ehrhardt and Stymie, kindly recommended by the inimitable and knowledgable Alastair Johnston.
This marks the return of a slab serif used in previous issues with Memphis, a copy of the more reputable Stymie.
is Mohawk Superfine, Ultrawhite, smooth.
Isabel Baraona painted and designed the images for the outside and inside covers. Baraona also painted and designed the artist’s book in the envelope attached to the inside back cover. Two essays about her books were published in JAB30, fall 2011.
Special thanks are given to Karol Shewmaker and Rod Slemmons for their assistance in copy-editing. Thanks to Luan Barros for his ongoing video work for JAB, and Kathi Beste as our intrepid webmaster.
JAB31 | Spring 2012
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
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JAB31 Table of Contents
- Front Cover Design: Mary Jo Pauly & JAB DESIGN GROUP; Inside front cover + TOC designs by JAB DESIGN GROUP
- JAB31: "Collaboration, Cooperation, & Shared Goals”— An Anecdote by Editor Brad Freeman
- New York Art Book Fair: Some Reflections on the Fair
Thomas Hvid Kromann
- The Mailbox is in the Library: Reading Under Judith Hoffberg’s Umbrella
Anthony Leslie
- Artists’ Books in Australia
Sarah Bodman
- Print Production Fellows In Action: Dick Higgens’s Copy of the Spoerri Book
JAB Design Group
- Anecdotology, Annotationism, + Arborescence
Alastair Brotchie
- Profoundy Wunderbar
Karol Shewmaker
- Mindful Navigation, Profoundy Wunderbar
Brandon Graham
- Can Documentary Photography Save Cities from Urban Blight?
Claire Sammons + Jenna Rodriguez
- Consuming Destruction
Sarah Bassnett
- An Artist’s Book as Artist Book: A Look Into the Artist’s Library
Albert Coers
- Idea Designed Book
M. Kasper
- Books Recieved
Claire Sammons
- SPECIAL FEATURE BACK COVER INSERT
Artists’ projects by Aaron Cohick & Kevin Riordan
JAB30 | Fall 2011
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
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JAB 30 Table of Contents
- Inside Front Cover and Table of Contents Design from Mirror Box,
a book by Ulises Carrión with rubber stamped boxers on soft paper, published by Stempelpaats, Amsterdam, 1979
- JAB30 and the Future by Editor Brad Freeman
- Ulises Carrión: Other Books and So
Gerrit Jan de Rook
- Embodying Bookness: Reading as Material Act
Manuel Portela
- A Woman’s World: the Artist’s Books of Isabel Baraona
Catarina Figueiredo Cardoso
- Isabel Baraona: Four Recent Books
Karol Shewmaker
- Artist’s Pages
Kevin Riordan
- Weproductions: Forty Years and Counting
Brandon Graham
- Nothing In Its Place: The Blank Page
Karen M. Wirth
- Book Reviews
Karol Shewmaker
- Slicing the Page: The Story of Champion Books
Ted Hopkins
- Books Recieved
Brad Freeman and Claire Sammons
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- SPECIAL FEATURE BACK COVER INSERT
& & &, an artists’ book by Eric Carlson
JAB29|Spring 2011
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- Cover Design: Felipe Ehrenberg
- Brazil JAB: Letter from the Editor Brad Freeman
- Perspectives do Livro de Artista: um relato
Perspectives of the Artists’ Book: a report
Maria do Carmo de Freitas Veneroso
- A Crítica e o Livro De Artista
Criticism and the Artist's Book
Paulo Siveiro/Translated by Alice Monsell
- Estudio sobre espaço paratextual no livro de artista
A Study on the Paratextual Space in Artists’ Books
Daisy Turrer
- O Signo Infantil em Livros de Artista
The Children’s Sign in Artists’ Books
Amir Brito Cadór/Translated by Catarina Figueiredo Cardoso
- Book Fairs: Paris & Beyond
Catarina Figueiredo Cardoso
- Books Received: JAB 29
Brad Freeman
- SPECIAL FEATURE INSERT: JAB29 Art Envelope
Belo Horizonte, an artists’ book by Martha Hellion, and “Perspectas do Livro Artista,” annotated conference schedule by Brad Freeman.
JAB28|Fall 2010
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- The outside cover was designed and silkscreen printed by Sonnenzimmer
- Letters from the Editors:
April Sheridan and Brad Freemn
- The livre d’Artist et son articulatio à al pratique contemporaine, de 1980 à nos jours
The Artist Book and Its Relationship to Contemporary Practices
by Océane Delleaux • translated by Skye Enyeart-Rust
- Shifting Artist Book Distribution Models
by Brandon Graham
- Portrait of the Artists as Young Book Makers
by April Sheridan
- Books Received by JAB28
compiled by Maggie Puckett
- Special Insert: A Little Book of Boekie Woekie
An artist’s book by the CCCCBPA offset fellows (Jordan Knecht, Kaitlin Kostus, Kathi Beste) for JAB28, under the direction of Brad Freeman
JAB27|Spring 2010
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- The outside and inside covers were designed by Chris George–for more information about the design and production of the cover refer to page 4 in Brad Freeman’s “Artistic Control and the Means of Production.”
- Editor’s Note
Tate Shaw
- Artistic Control and the Means of Production
Brad Freeman
- Display as Discourse
Nathan Lyons
- Milkweed Seeds
François Deschamps
- Visual and Verbal Experience in Photo-Bookworks
David Schulz
- Text, Image, Writing, Reading: Kristen Merola’s Things I Wanted to Tell You
Aaron Cohick
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Weighted Praise: Phil Zimmermann’s Sanctus Sonorensis
CJ Mace
- Which Cloud?: Elisabeth Tonnard's Mood: Potential
Chris Burnett
- Mood: Potential
an artist's book by Elisabeth Tonnard
JAB26|Fall 2009
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- The JAB26 cover was designed and letterpress printed by Mary Jo Pauly.
- Editor's Statement
Brad Freeman
- When a Multiple Becomes a Book: Losing Artists & Photographs at MoMA Library
Sheelagh Bevan
- Gutter Crossing: on Emily McVarish
Kyle Schlesinger
- The Square
Emily McVarish
- The Hybrid Book Experiment
Amanda D’Amico & Michelle Wilson
- and Guest
an artist’s book by Amber Hares
- Context is King: The Democratic Multiple in a Digital Age
Mary Tasillo
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Book Review
Toby Millman: Access & Closure by Clifton Meador
- Book Production of Russian Avant Garde Books 1912-1916
Johanna Drucker
- Let Us Now Reproduce Famous Men & Women, The Mothers & Fathers That Begat Us
Tate Shaw
- Emerging Artists & Awards + Received & Noted
Brad Freeman
- Fog Behind The Eyes
a poem in book form by April Sheridan
JAB25|Spring 2009
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- The JAB25 cover was designed by Jan Voss.
- Editor's Statement
Brad Freeman
- Guest Editor's Introduction
Tony White
- About the Cover Art
Jan Voss
- The Borowsky Center
Amanda D'Amico
- I
DIY CMYK (an homage)
Pattie Belle Hastings
Afterword Clifton Meador
- Surrender
Cynthia Marsh
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Book Reviews
Eugene Feldman & Aloísio Magalhães: Doorway to Portuguese by Clifton Meador
Play Nice: Sally Alatalo's Offset DoDa by Brandon Graham
- Pyramid Atlantic Critic's Award
Elisabeth Long
JAB24|Fall 2008
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- Special Issue on the Intersections of
Experimental Literature and Artists' Books
edited by Craig Dworkin & Kyle Schlesinger
- The JAB24 cover was designed by Tate Shaw and Chris Burnett with some additions by Brad Freeman.
- Editor's Statement
Brad Freeman
- Highway 24 Unvisited: Reeling Between
The Road and Artists' Books From Toledo to Kansas City
Chris Burnett & Tate Shaw
- Off the Road
Alastair Johnston
- Chapbook Presses
A Note On Atticus/Finch David Pavelich
Poet as Maker Elisabeth Long
- JAB Insert: Handmade-o-meter
Daniel Mellis
JAB23|Spring 2008
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- The JAB23 cover was designed by Ken Gerleve
- Editor's Statement
Brad Freeman
- A Train Station For Billy
Stefan Soltek & Martina Weiss
- Letterpress in the Mimeo Revolution
Kyle Schlesinger
- In Memory: An Examination of Tatana Kellner's Paired Artist's Books, Fifty Years of Silence
Norah Hardin Lind
- Reading Outside the Lines: Paratextual Analysis and Artists' Books
Jae Rossman
- Book Reviews
- Received and Noted
JAB22|Fall 2007
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- The JAB22 cover was designed & letterpress printed by Elisabeth Long
- Notes on the Way to the Glue Factory
Brad Freeman
- Conference Overview
Elisabeth Long
- Book Arts and the Desire for Theory
Matthew Brown
- Comments
Richard Minsky
- In Response
Barbara Maloutas
- Shaping a New Critical Discourse for the Field
Mary Tasillo
- Exhibiting Artists' Books: Problems and Solutions
Judith Hoffberg
- Beyond Artifacts: Book Arts as Practice
Andrew Eason
- Book Arts & Mainstream Publication
Jen Blair
- Crossing Boundaries:
New Conceptions for the Book
Jonathan Lill
- Why you don't need to know how to make paper to read a book: Looking at Artists' Books Online
Phoebe Esmon & Amanda D'Amico
- Graphic Design & the Book Arts
Karen Zimmermann
- Contemporary Art & the Book
Tango Book Arts:
Katie Murken, Lindsey Mears & Katie Baldwin
- An Unsentimental Education
Audrey Niffenegger
- Provocation: Student Revolution
Marshall Weber
- Artists' Books Online
Johanna Drucker
- Announcements
- On the Printing of the JAB Covers by the Side of Bubbly Creek
Elisabeth Long
JAB21|Spring 2007
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- The JAB21 cover was designed & letterpress printed by Brad Freeman and Daniel Mellis with printing help from Clifton Meador
- To Figure Out What Is Happening:
An Interview With Johanna Drucker
by Tate Shaw
- Editioning One-of-a-Kind Multiples:
Notes Toward An Understanding of Anselm Kiefer's Books
by Elisabeth Long
- Viewing and Reading Artist Books
by Ward Tietz
- Interview with Marshall Weber
by Tony White
- Small Pond
by Clifton Meador
- Plus reviews of books by Emily Larned, Tate Shaw, and Luke Strosnider
JAB20|Fall 2003
No originals left. Color laser-printed facsimile: $15 individual; $20 institution
- JAB20 cover was designed by Ruth Laxson and printed in duotone at Nexus Press by Brad Freeman.
- Last JAB, Book of Ruth, MCBA/Bolger Concept to Print Residency & Life Goes On by Brad Freeman, page 1
- Thinking About Ten Years of JAB by Johanna Drucker, page 8
- A Centering of Sorts: The Evolving Idea of Minnesota Center for Book Arts by Mary Jo Pauly, page 11
- Alter-Aesthetics by Betty Bright, page 13
JAB19|Spring 2003
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- JAB19 was written and designed by the Atlanta Poets Group - Sandy Baldwin, Mark Prejsnar, JS Van Buskirk, Zac Denton, Randy Prunty, James Sanders, Tedd Mulholland, Tracey Gagné, John Lowther. Cover design by REPUGNO. An audio CD with the APG is included. Offset printed by Brad Freeman at Nexus Press.
JAB18|Fall 2002
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- JAB18 (including cover, inside cover & page 32) was designed and edited by Clifton Meador. Film was imageset through a production grant at the Institute for Electronic Art, School of Art and Design, Alfred University. Offset printed by Brad Freeman at Nexus Press.
- Autism, Physiognomy & Letter Forms: The Faces of James Castle by Tom Trusky, page 2
- Singular and Unique: A Publisher's Subjective Experience with the Untimely Art of the One-of-a-Kind Book by Thomas Günther, page 21
- Debtor's Prison by Lewis Warsh and Julie Harrison by Joe Elliott, page 24
- Pocketbooks: Overview of a Scottish publishing program by Clifton Meador page 26
- Artist's pages Georgie the Elder by James Fossett, page 28
JAB17|Spring 2002
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- JAB17 is an artist's book conceived and designed by Seana Biondolillo on the theme of Patriotism (includes the inserted book PRANCE by Seana Biondolillo). Offset printed by Brad Freeman at Nexus Press. The cover is in tritone and the inside is duotone throughout.
JAB16|Fall 2001
No originals left. Color laser-printed facsimile: $15 individual; $20 institution
- The cover was designed by David Laufer and offset printed by Brad Freeman & Aaron Disner at Nexus Press. Aaron Disner designed JAB16 and his artist pages 2, 19, 20 & 27.
- Low-Tech Chicanery as a Means of Cultural Resistance by Mandy Mastrovita, page 3
- The State of Things: Free and in Flux, Book Art in Germany at the Beginning of the 21st Century by Uwe Warnke, page 11
- Zum Stand der Dinge: entkommen, d.h. in Bewegung. Die Situation der Buchkunst in Deutschland am Beginn des 21. Jhs by Uwe Warnke, page 15
- Words on Shapes by Schuldt, page 21
- Simple Harmonic Motions by Hank Lazer & INK-A! Press by Charles Alexander page 25
- A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections About the Book & Writing, edited by Jerome Rothenberg & Steven Clay by Mitch Highfill, page 27
- Scott McCarney by Jae Williams, page 29
JAB15|Spring 2001
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- Cover designed by Karen Tauches and offset printed by Brad Freeman at Nexus Press.
- JAB15 was a catalogue for the exhibition Book Unbound curated by Cathy Byrd at Agnes Scott College January 25, 2001 to March 30, 2001.
- The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry, page 4
- Artist's Statement by Ruth Laxson, page 6
- Artist's Statement by Emily McVarish, page 7
- Artist's Statement by David Horton, page 8
- Artist's Statement by Berwyn Hung, page 8
- Artist's Statement by Miranda Maher, page 9
- Artist's Statement by Tom Williams, page 10
- Artist's Statement by Michele Shauf, page 11
- Nexus Press by JoAnne Paschall, page 12
- The R. C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking by Laura C. Lieberman, page 12
- Artist's Statement by David Laufer, page 14
- Artist's Statement by Mark Amerika, page 15
- Artist's Statement by Stephanie Ognar, page 16
- Artist's Statement by Marcia Cohen, page 17
- Atlanta College of Art Library Artists' Books Collection by Moira Steven, page 18
- Artist's Statement by Byron Clercx, page 19
- Artist's Statement by Charles Hobson, page 20
- Codex Espangliensis by Felicia Rice, page 20
- Artist's Statement by Geoffrey Hendricks, page 22
- Artist's Statement by Carol Barton, page 23
- Artist's Statement by Anne Beidler, page 24
- Artist's Statement by Tennessee Rice Dixon, page 25
- Artists' Statement by Johanna Drucker & Brad Freeman, page 26
- Checklist of the Exhibition, page 28
- The Evolution of Books Time line compiled by Johanna Drucker, page 31
JAB14|Fall 2000
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- Cover designed by Seana Biondolillo and offset printed by Brad Freeman at Nexus Press. Inside cover photos by Brad Freeman.
- Artist's pages by Andrea Goldman, page 2
- Topics in the History of Artists' Books: Tristram Shandy's Original Marbled Page by Karen Schiff, page 6
- Conversations with Miranda Maher by Sue O'Donnell, page 12
- Book Review: RIDING FIRST CLASS ON THE TITANIC: Photographs by Nathan Lyons by Brad Freeman, page 16
- Artist's Statement by Matt Liddle, page 20
- Valuvela - Artist's pages by Christian Bök, page 22
- Artists' Books at the Brooklyn Museum of Art by Lois Martin, page 24
- Don't Judge a Book by It's Cover: The Logic of Lisa Hart's Book Art by Diana McClintock, page 26
- Books Received by editors, page 28
JAB13|Spring 2000
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- The cover photograph is by Paolo Antonio Silveira. The cover was designed and offset printed by Brad Freeman at Nexus Press, Atlanta.
- Notes from the Publisher & The Atlanta Book Prize by Brad Freeman, page 1
- Presenting Gabriel Pomerand's Saint ghetto des prêts by M. Kasper, page 6
- Falling Into a review of the book by Johanna Drucker, page 9
- In the Space of Blurred Boundaries by Karen Wirth, page 12
- There Goes the Neighborhood a review of the book A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960 - 1980 by Gary Sullivan, page 14
- Something Precious - Memory Pods: Ideas Coming into Form, an artist's statement by Sherry Lane, page 16
- Artist's pages by Chris George, page 20
- Artist's pages by Paul Rutkovsky, page 24
- Book Arts on the Web by Julia Flanders, page 28
- Conference Review: Book Arts 2000 & Beyond by Richard Zauft, page 30
JAB12|Fall 1999
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- The covers were made from makeready sheets used in the printing of the artists' book Nova Reperta (1999) by Johanna Drucker and Brad Freeman. The type for the cover was set by Chris George.
- JAB12 was a catalogue for the exhibition Experimental Narrative and Artists' Books curated by Johanna Drucker & Brad Freeman and held at Foster Hall Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - September 5, 1999 to September 30, 1999.
- Turning the Page: A Celebration of the Arts of the Book by Leslie Koptcho, page 1
- Experimental Narrative and Artists' Books by Johanna Drucker, page 3
- Artist's Statement by Telfer Stokes, page 5
- Artist's Statement by Phil Zimmermann, page 8
- Artist's Statement by Helen Douglas, page 9
- Artist's Statement by Bea Nettles, page 10
- Artist's Statement by Judith Mohns, page 11
- Artist's Statement by Francois Deschamps, page 13
- Artist's Statement by Clifton Meador, page 14
- Artist's Statement by Janet Zweig, page 16
- Artist's Statement by Clarissa Sligh, page 17
- Artist's Statement by Gary Richman, page 18
- Artist's Statement by Ruth Laxson, page 19
- Nova Reperta: New Inventions and Discoveries by Johanna Drucker & Brad Freeman, page 26
- Checklist of the Exhibition, page 31
JAB11|Spring 1999
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- The cover of JAB11 was designed and offset printed by Brad Freeman at SUNY Purchase, Center for Editions.
- Interview with Betsy Davids by Johanna Drucker, page 1
- Creative Meaning-making: Reading the Bookworks of Lise Melhorn-Boe by Tara Hyland, page 11
- (Book)2 by Christian Bök, page 16
- Dave Hornor, Teach Your Children to Tell Time; Joan Lyons, Twenty-Five Years Ago; Keith Smith, Book 184; Scott McCarney, Far Horizon, reviewed by the editors
- Anton Würth, page 22
- Artist / Author: Contemporary Artists' Books, A Review of the Exhibition Catalog by Brad Freeman, page 25
- Contemporary Russian Artists' Books by Mikhail Karasik, page 30
- Poet's page by Buck Downs, inside back cover
JAB10|Fall 1998
No originals left. Color laser-printed facsimile: $15 individual; $20 institution
- The cover of JAB10 was designed and letterpress printed by Emily McVarish at her studio in San Francisco.
- The Buddhist Thirdclass Junkmail Oracle: The Life, Mysterious Death and Collected Poetry of d.a. levy by Mike Golden, page 1
- Nostalgia for Relevance by Gary Sullivan, page 18
- The Tibetan Stroboscope of d.a. levy by Steve Clay, page 20
- Codex Espangliensis reviewed by Emily McVarish, page 22
- Broaching Texts and Reading Material: Artist Books by Robbin Ami Silverberg by Lois Martin, page 25
- In Memoriam: Todd Walker by Brad Freeman, page 31
JAB9|Spring 1998
No originals left. Color laser-printed facsimile: $15 individual; $20 institution
- The cover and inside cover were designed and letterpress printed by Inge Bruggeman of INK-A! Press, Portland, OR.
- General Theories of the Artist Book: Ulises Carrión/El Lissitzky/Et Al by Brad Freeman, page 1
- La Symphonie Silencieuse by Jean-Claude Götting by Cynthia Young, page 5
- No Problem, Brother! by Roy Villevoye and Between the Two by Helen Douglas, by Gary Sullivan, page 6
- John Baldessari by Victoria Sancho, page 10
- Books as a Way of Life: Rosmarie & Keith Waldrop by Johanna Drucker, page 15
- Contingency and the Ontic Book: Some Readings of an Artist's Book by J.H. Kocman by Ted Purvis, page 21
- Artist's pages, Brad Freeman, page 25 - 30
JAB8|Fall 1997
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- The cover & inside cover of JAB8 were designed by Philip Zimmermann and offset printed by Brad Freeman at SUNY Purchase, Center for Editions.
- Ars Combinatoria and the Book by Janet Zweig, page 1
- Flagrant Délit: The Books of Bernard Villers Edition Remorqueur by Didier Mathieu, page 6
- Cosmological Wit: The Books of Ruth Laxson and Press 63+ by Pattie Belle Hastings, page 10
- Essential Aspects of Subculture Periodicals in the GDR and their Place in Cultural History by Thomas Günter, page 17
- Profile / Interview: Cathy Courtney by Johanna Drucker page 26
- The Problem with Role Models: Contextualizing So Cal 1970's FemArtBooks & the Matter with Contemporary Practice by Laurel Beckman, page 28
JAB7|Spring 1997
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- The cover & inside cover of JAB7 were designed and offset printed by Brad Freeman at SUNY Purchase, Center for Editions.
- Interview with Clif Meador by Brad Freeman, page 1
- John Eric Broaddus: A Fashioner of Books by Renée Riese Hubert and Judd D. Hubert, page 12
- In the Life: Portrait of a Modern Sex-deviant by Sally Gardner, page 22
- Art Theory Made Me Cry by Lucy Soutter review by editors, page 22
- Feminisim and the Book Arts at the Woman's Building, Los Angeles by Alisa Scudamore, page24
- Science Imagined by Ruth McGurk, page 30
JAB6| Fall 1996
Original issues available: $20 individual; $25 institution
- The cover & inside cover were designed & printed letterpress by Jules Remedios Faye in Sedro-Wooley, Washington.
- Interview with Steve McCaffery by Johanna Drucker, page 1
- Anne Moeglin: Response to Johanna Drucker by Anne Moeglin, page 12
- The Art of Political Ephemera by Johanna Drucker, page 14
- Artist's pages by Brad Freeman, pages 18 - 20
- Emily McVarish, Wards of Obsolescence, review by Johanna Drucker, page 21
- Artist's pages by Brad Freeman, pages 22 - 23
- NW Tour, Books Received / Brief Reviews, Etc. by Brad Freeman, page 24
JAB5|Spring 1996
No originals left. Color laser-printed facsimile in original cover: $15 individual; $20 institution
- The cover & inside cover of JAB5 were designed by Seana Biondolillo & offset printed by Brad Freeman at SUNY Purchase, Center for Editions.
- Letter From Lower Broadway by Joe Elliott, page 1
- Interview with Simon Cutts and Erica Van Horn, page 2
- Ephemeral as Thought: Didier Mathieu - Sixtus Editions by Johanna Drucker, page 12
- Report from London by Tanya Peixoto, page 14
- Paul Zelevansky reviews The Portrait Series by Warren Lehrer, page 16
- Documentary Photography in Books: a brief glance by Brad Freeman, page 18
- The Names Have Been Changed: To Protect . . . by Gary Sullivan, page 24
- The Rise of the Book in the Wake of Rain by Jim Trissel, page 26
- Buy More Artists' Books by Carol Barton, page 30
JAB4|Fall 1995
No originals left. Color laser-printed facsimile: $15 individual; $20 institution
- The cover was designed & letterpress printed by Clifton Meador at Hatch Show Print in Nashville.
- The inside cover was letterpress printed by Brad Freeman in New Haven.
- All Dressed Up with No Place To Go: The Failure of Artists' Books by Janet Zweig, page 1
- Critical Necessities by Johanna Drucker, page 1
- A Few Observations by Philip Zimmermann, page 9
- Interview with Joan Lyons by Brad Freeman, page 11
- A Mass Produced Product of High Order by Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, page 18
- Bertrand Dorny at the Musée Pompidou by Renée Riese Hubert, page 21
- Artist's pages by Darren Wershler-Henry, pages 23 - 25
- Letter to the Editor by Clive Phillpot, page26
- Rambling Rant: Travels, Video, Typophiles . . . Books? by Brad Freeman, page 28
- Hatch Show Print by Clifton Meador, page 30
JAB3|Spring 1995
No originals left. Color laser-printed facsimile: $15 individual; $20 institution
- JAB Journeys Before the Glue Factory: Theorizing Production by Brad Freeman, page 1
- The Dungeon of the Temple by Clifton Meador, page 1
- Artists' Statements by Helen Douglas and Telfer Stokes, page 8
- Why a Book is not a Painting by Susan Bee, page 14
- Back to Basics: 3 Primers from Granary Books by Joe Elliott, page 16
- Artist's pages by Seana Biondolillo, pages 20 and 21
- Artist's pages by Brad Freeman, pages 22 - 25
- Poetry, fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed, or flourish, in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish - William Blake, by Brad Freeman, page 26
- Notes from JAB International Roving Reporter, Johanna Drucker, in Paris at The First Artistbook [sic] International or Ier Salon International du Livre d'Artiste, December 4, 1994 by Johanna Drucker, page 28
- JAB: An Identity Crisis by Douglas Beube, page 30
- Johanna Drucker Responds, page 31
Volume one, number two|Fall 1994
No originals left. Color laser-printed facsimile: $15 individual; $20 institution
- The Public Life of Artists' Books: Questions of Identity by Johanna Drucker, page 1
- Calendar-Art: Scenes from the Life of Raja Ravi Varma by M. Kasper, page 1
- JAB Addendum by Brad Freeman and Johanna Drucker, page 3
- New work by Scott McCarney and Keith Smith, page 12 & 13
Edition one, volume one|Spring 1994
No originals left. Color laser-printed facsimile: $15 individual; $20 institution
- Artists' Books / Book-like Objects by Brad Freeman, page 1
- ReViewing the Subway as a Book by Joe Elliott, page 1
- Artist's page by Melissa Watson, page 10
- Artists' page by Johanna Drucker and Brad Freeman (includes insert ART. BE ALL YOU CAN BE. by Brad Freeman) page 11
- JAB logo by Melissa Watson, page 1
