Mystery Girls' Circus & College of Conundrum: Route Book / Season of 1991.

Ames Lake, Portland, Washington D.C.:: M Kimberly Press,, 1991.. Edition of 125. illustrated and bound by Mare Blocker, text by Mare Blocker and Katherine Dunn. Illustrations are color linoleum and magnesium cuts representing circus performers, one fold-out color lithograph of performing lions and tigers, and two die-cut pages in the 56 unnumbered pages. shape of animal heads. Book is numbered on the last three digits of the pink ticket on the colophon page. This book was published in an edition of one hundred and twenty-five copies for the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), selected by the NMWA Library Fellows as a winner for the 1991 Artists' Book . Case bound with brown and black cloth-covered boards with blue foil stamping on front cover. Hollow-back binding. Pages pamphlet bound with white thread. Illustrated endpapers.competition. SMOA: "Passionate about storytelling and its role in examining and archiving, this artist's book was inspired by circus route books popular in America at the turn of the century. The book chronicles the exploits of an imaginary circus during its spring/summer season.