Halifax: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1983. First edition. [156] pp. Square 8vo. Printed red wraps. Complete with folded "Truisms" poster laid-in, as issued. Rubbing to front cover hinge, mild toning to edges of textblock. Some toning to poster. Better than very good.
Artist's book gathering two text-based bodies of work by American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer (b. 1950): 24 pages of Truisms, printed in red on white paper-stock, and 132 pages of Inflammatory Essays (here styled simply as "Essays") printed in black on blue paperstock. With English, Spanish, French, and German versions of all texts. Issued as The Nova Scotia Pamphlets 3. Perhaps her most significant bookwork, and increasingly scarce in the trade.
