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[Iowa City]: The Stone Wall Press / The Seamark Press, 1972. Edition limited to 150 copies, 8vo, pp. 61, [3]; original blue cloth, printed paper label on spine; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. Berger, Printing & the Mind of Merker, 50: "Printed as a joint publication with Kay Amert and Howard Zimmon of the Seamark Press." This is "the one and only book issued jointly by the Seamark Press and Kim Merker's Stonewall Press. Merker was some 15 years older than Kay and had come to Iowa to study with Harry Duncan about a decade earlier than she. He was also then, like Kay, a junior member of the faculty of the University of Iowa, where he too would stay for the rest of his life - but Kay and Kim were of radically different temperaments and grew steadily further apart. In later years, the University's Center for the Book, directed by Merker, and the Type Lab, directed by Kay, maintained efficient, polite, but rather chilly professional relations, while students moved freely and easily between them" (Bringhurst, Robert, "In Memoriam, Kay Louise Amert" as in Parenthesis 16).