Gianfranco Baruchello - La quindicesima riga - 1968

Artist's book on design and typesetting by Magdalo Mussio. Introduction by Nanny Cagnone.

"To have a personal library. Enter it. Remove from the shelves 400 books in Italian. Randomly select from each one 15 lines in 15 different pages. Seize a typewriter. Copy the lines with the corresponding data (title, author, page). Until you have 400 folders of 15 lines. Cut out the lines, mix them, draw them at random and glue them, 30 per folder. Do not tire. Visit a notary and deposit the 400 folders of 15 lines with their references. Obliterate the references of the 6000 lines drawn by lot. Go (by invitation) to a literary congress (do not tire) and distribute to the writers present 102 folders (= 3060 lines). Return from the same notary, greet him and deposit the remaining 98 folders (= 2940 lines). Find a publisher without delay until achieving the present result..." (Nanny Cagnone, from the introductory note).

Good condition, small defects to the slipcase and to the first cover