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Ida Applebroog's Blue Books
Ida Applebroog's Blue Books
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APPLEBROOG, IDA. Blue Books. [N.p.: Ida Applebroog, 1981]. Five (of seven) volumes, the final volume signed in pencil by Applebroog in 1982. Original blue printed staple-bound wrappers. 7 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches (19.5 x 16 cm); the text and illustrations printed in blue, 20 pp. each. Fine.

Five of the seven volumes in Ida Applebroog's cerebral "Blue Books" series. Known for works that challenge themes of gender, sexual identity, violence, Applebroog issued three books in similar multi-volume publications, Blue Books being the final one in 1981. Applebroog died in 2023. The volumes present here are: I Can't: A Performance; I Mean It: A Performance; So?: A Performance; Stop Crying: A Performance; and the final volume, A Performance which is signed as inscribed as "end of magnum opus."

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Ida Applebroog's Blue Books

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