Abracadabra
Subtitle: an homage to N.H. Werkman ; a set of typographic explorations
By: Werner Pfeiffer
Contributors: Werkman, Hendrik Nicolaas, 1882-1945; Pear Whistle Press; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Pear Whistle Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Red Hook, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Artists' books
Notes: "Limited edition of 52 numbered and signed copies"--Colophon.

Unbound leaves in a black cloth-covered folder. A red letter A and "Abracadabra" show through a diamond-shaped opening in the folder. In a gray cloth-covered slipcase.

"Abracadabra is a book about magic. Not the illusory trickery of a conjurer, but the magic of an artist's work ... [Pfeiffer] developed a series of pages based on the characters which spell out the word Abracadabra. In order to embrace the illusionary realm with which the word is associated, [he] mounted the pages into three Flexagon structures; they magically appear and disappear by simply folding and flexing a piece of paper." Cf.  Werner Pfeiffer, censor, villain, provocateur, experimenter, p. 59.

LC copy is no. 20, signed by the author.