My book is, Close Cover Before
Striking by Steele Heimann Dyer. I have constructed a large matchbook to
an enlarged scale of an actual one. The book, Close Cover Before
Striking, is a book based on the history of matchbook covers, thusly,
within my matchbook are color reproductions of some of these classic
matchbook covers. The matches themselves (also to exact scale) contain
literature from the book.
This book object is based on
The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. The table shows
what things may have
looked like through the eyes of Alice, trapped in a world in which time and
space were distorted. The objects are all things that Alice might have
laid on the table at the Mad Hatter's Tea party. The book of cards is
a collection of quotes from the original story
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