Idea 368, 2015-01

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A Chronological Table of an Alternative History of Publishing in Japan 1923-1994
A History of Modern Japanese Printing Types: Text by Uchida Akira
Postscript by Kiyonori Muroga
[Series] All we know about Japanese Zines Vol. 1: Text by Barbora and Momo Nonaka
A Chronicle of Alternative Spirits in Japan 1970-1994:
Books Designed in Negative Forms or A Gutenberg Elegy in a Thousand and One Steps

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