Halifax: The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1978. Second edition. [146] leaves, printed rectos only. 4to. Wraps. Very good, with light soiling to covers, moderate toning to rear. Title page signed and dated in year of publication by Ferguson.
A conceptual artist's book consisting of "just under 50,000 words" culled from the Brown University Million Word Corpus and arranged alphabetically by word length. Originally self-published in 1970 an edition of 300, and used as the source for subsequent works, including "Equivalents" (1971) and "26 Voices" (1972). Here with a new introduction by Ferguson.
