L uckily, the wheels of the venerable cart accelerated slowly. She ran down the hill after it at a 100 meter short track sprint pace. So fast that she had almost reached it before it crashed off the sidewalk, spilling artists books in all directions.

The cool entrance into class with ten examples of published artists book editions occurred somewhat differently than Caydance had envisioned, but the books were all there and surprisingly unharmed, including, in addition to the recently acquired Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry facsimile (and four other books that aren't mentioned here): Samuel Beckett and Jasper Johns' Fiorades/Fizzles, printed on handmade Richard de Bas paper, watermarked with Beckett’s initials and Johns' signature; Caydance's signed copy of Ed Ruscha's Twentysix Gasoline Stations; the copy of Characters of Motion that Jill Scott gave her before she returned to Australia; a copy of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit Book of Instructions and Drawings, and a new red View-Master, accompanied by Huckleberry Hound Lands on the Moon.