Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here collection, 2007-2019

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Series I: Prints

Series consists of 193 numbered prints. Print No. 145 is listed and shelved with broadsides. Prints 69, 128, 142 and 161 are oversize and shelved in a flat box.



Box 1 No. 1: Afsoon. One thousand and one book


Box 1 No. 2: Alford, Jasper. The Book of Life


Box 1 No. 3: Allen, Lynne D. Conflict


Box 1 No. 4: Alnawar, Hassan. To Change


Box 1 No. 5: Ang, Aloysius. Fire and Paper


Box 1 No. 6: Annand, Peter. Passages


Box 1 No. 7: Aoki, Kathy. I Read


Box 1 No. 8: Ashcroft, Elizabeth. Absence has Presence


Box 1 No. 9: Avery, David. Ex Libris - In Absentia


Box 1 No. 10: Baker, Mavina. all that is lost


Box 1 No. 11: Baxandall, Lucy. Absence and Presence


Box 1 No. 12: Bell, Sherry Smith. Icarus


Box 1 No. 13: Bendib, Kahlil. Al Mutannabi


Box 1 No. 14: Beneman, Chris. Artifact


Box 1 No. 15: Bodman, Sarah. Readers / dreamers


Box 1 No. 16: Bourget, Marie. Thou Reader


Box 1 No. 17: Bouyoucos, Kristine T. Hand in Hand


Box 1 No. 18: Bowden, Pamela. Sintered Book


Box 1 No. 19: Boyle, Martin. Fawzi Remembers Al-Mutannabbi Street


Box 1 No. 20: Brancaforte, Valeria. The Trace of the Butterfly


Box 1 No. 21: Bridge, Virginia. [no title]


Box 1 No. 22: Bridgland, Adam. Empty Bookcases


Box 1 No. 23: Brighton, Carol. Medicine for Memories


Box 1 No. 24: Broekman, Jessyca M. The presence in absence


Box 1 No. 25: Buck, Sissy. Incubating Hope


Box 1 No. 26: Bullick, Molly. Scattered Pages


Box 1 No. 27: Caine, Jennifer L. Amnesia #6: Traces


Box 1 No. 28: Campbell, Nancy. [no title]


Box 1 No. 29: Cannell, Stuart. [no title]


Box 1 No. 30: Cartwright, Catherine. Bookshelf Pyre


Box 1 No. 31: Chalfin, Liz. From the Ashes


Box 1 No. 32: Chew, Karen. Loaded


Box 1 No. 33: Christensen, Khalifah. You Are Free to Express Your Agreement with My Beliefs


Box 1 No. 34: Clark, Patricia Winter, Julie. One Street Mapping


Box 1 No. 35: Cole, Jen. Blood Book


Box 1 No. 36: Connors, Michael. Damage Done


Box 1 No. 37: Corcelle, Christiane. I discovered the World in Al-Mutanabbi Street!


Box 1 No. 38: Cornell, Deborah. Words


Box 1 No. 39: Crookes, Dennis. Nabbi


Box 1 No. 40: Dant, Rebecca. There Will Always Be Words


Box 1 No. 41: Darrahier, Neda. Reed, Read, Red


Box 1 No. 42: Day, Gary. Fireflies


Box 1 No. 43: Day, Mary. Literary, Luminous, Liberation


Box 1 No. 44: Decossard, Sarah. Freedom


Box 1 No. 45: DeForest, Cathy. Our Immortal Soul


Box 1 No. 46: DeLaura, Pamela. History


Box 1 No. 47: deSimone, d'Ann. morphogenesis


Box 1 No. 48: Diessner, Nancy. [no title]


Box 1 No. 49: Dillon, Mikaela. Breach in Communication


Box 1 No. 50: Disslin, Annette. Escaping the Embers


Box 1 No. 51: Dolcetti de Castro, Matilda. Absence and Presence


Box 1 No. 52: Droge, Michel. Scheherezade: Storyteller


Box 1 No. 53: Duignan, Lilla. Absence & Presence


Box 1 No. 54: Dunne, Jessica. Last Edition


Box 1 No. 55: Easton, Theresa. Target


Box 1 No. 56: Evans, Justus. IQRA


Box 1 No. 57: Felce, Christine. For Al Mutanabbi Street


Box 1 No. 58: Fredericks, Stephen. Untitled


Box 1 No. 59: Fuentes, Juan. Iraq


Box 1 No. 60: Garner, Wanda. Torn


Box 1 No. 61: Gendler, J Ruth. Library of Dreams and the Avenue of Booksellers


Box 1 No. 62: Gerasev, Alex. In The Dark


Box 1 No. 63: Gillespie, Oscar J. Heirloom: New Moon


Box 1 No. 64: Gilmore, Ania Zeybekoglu, Annie. Evidence 5114


Box 1 No. 65: Ginsberg-Place, Ruth. Flower from Ruins


Box 1 No. 66: Goldberg, Marsha. Smoke Billows


Box 1 No. 67: Goodale, Rebecca. Take Flight


Box 1 No. 68: Goodman, Ronnie. Our Spirit Still Lives On



Flatbox 2 No. 69: Gossett, Andy. On a Thunder Storm (oversize)



Box 1 No. 70: Halahmy, Oded. Iraq with Love


Box 1 No. 71: Haney, Judy. Tokens


Box 1 No. 72: Haney, Amy. Burning And Rising


Box 1 No. 73: Hanselaar, Marcelle. The Bookseller's Daughter I


Box 1 No. 74: Hansen, Jesse. Life


Box 1 No. 75: Harrell, Gary. No Books-No Wisdom-No Life


Box 1 No. 76: Harrell, Gary. Underground Library


Box 1 No. 77: Hassiba, Andrea. Identity Cards


Box 1 No. 78: Hayden, Martha. The Landing, Presence and Absence


Box 1 No. 79: Hazelwood, Art. Arise from Flame


Box 1 No. 80: Hazlett, David. Put Out Fire With Paper


Box 1 No. 81: Hebeler, Sally. If


Box 1 No. 82: Hilfiker, Arabella. [no title]


Box 1 No. 83: Hill, Wilson. Prosperity


Box 1 No. 84: Hiratsuka, Yuji. Nurturing Spirit


Box 1 No. 85: Ho, Ray. Behold Good and Evil


Box 1 No. 86: Hochberg, Judy Bergman. Shattered Glass, Shredded Paper


Box 1 No. 87: Hom, Nancy. The Vigil


Box 1 No. 88: Homma, Kaori. Looking eastwards beyond the tree of knowledge


Box 1 No. 89: Iancu, Raluca. Up in Smoke


Box 1 No. 90: Ishida, Fumi. Lingering Memory of Sacred


Box 1 No. 91: Jakobson, Sophia. Open Door, Closed Doors


Box 1 No. 92: Johnson, David B. Reading


Box 1 No. 93: Johnson, Sarojini Jha. Angry Jackal


Box 1 No. 94: Johnson, Jaymie. Pyriscene: Seeds Released by Fire


Box 1 No. 95: Kim, Jeuk Aaron. Bridge on Fire


Box 1 No. 96: King, Cathy. Coffee at Shabandar Café


Box 1 No. 97: Klein, Anita. Reading Under the Covers


Box 1 No. 98: Klotz, Deborah. Iron and Air


Box 1 No. 99: Komarow, Ronni. we who once were


Box 1 No. 100: Kosa, Csilla. Presence and Absence


Box 1 No. 101: LaPlante, Mario. Absence/Presence


Box 1 No. 102: Le Bigre, Jodi. Ashes to Ink


Box 1 No. 103: Lee, Sara. Under the same sun


Box 1 No. 104: Leopard, Sue Huggins. Brief Song


Box 1 No. 105: Loach, Roberta. Homage to Al-Mutanabbi


Box 1 No. 106: Luce. And the air is full of spirits


Box 1 No. 107: MacPhee, Josh. Al Mutanabbi Street


Box 1 No. 108: Mahan, Anastasia C. In a Broken City, Poetry Lives


Box 1 No. 109: Malone, Helen Oudyn, Jack. The Presence and Absence of the Light


Box 1 No. 110: Manske, Kent. Knowledge


Box 1 No. 111: Marsh, Mary. Absence and Presence


Box 1 No. 112: Marti, Fernando. The river ran black with ink


Box 1 No. 113: Maruri, Corina. BOOKS NOT BOMBS


Box 1 No. 114: Mase, Marilyn. Covered Words, Shattered Pieces


Box 1 No. 115: Maynard, Elizabeth "Oscar". Flutter of Page


Box 1 No. 116: McCulloch, Katya. The Golden Book of Art


Box 1 No. 117: McCulloch, Katya. Songbirds of Iraq


Box 1 No. 118: McGlamory, Clay. We Must Work For Peace


Box 1 No. 119: Menco, Bert. The Visitation


Box 1 No. 120: Merrill, Hugh. Ledger Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here


Box 1 No. 121: Middleton, Carl. Breath


Box 1 No. 122: Minkler, Doug. Books Not Bombs


Box 1 No. 123: Mitrentse, Christina. Wounded Book Series, War & Peace 2 by Tolstoy


Box 1 No. 124: Moghaddas, Golbanou. The Nourishing River


Box 1 No. 125: Montoya, Emmanuel. Al Mutanabbi / Al Attar


Box 1 No. 126: Morales, Gloria. Keep Going (Adelante)


Box 1 No. 127: Moreno, Anne. Sombras Pasean Por La Casa de Los Recuerdos



Flatbox 2 No. 128: Simmons, Elly. No title (oversize)



Box 1 No. 129: Morth. A New Beginning


Box 1 No. 130: Moulton, Bessie Smith. Gilgamesh / The Pen is Mightier than the Sword


Box 1 No. 131: Mulder, Nan. the mouth of the messenger was heavy; he could not repeat the message


Box 1 No. 132: Mullins, Kevin. This is the End


Box 1 No. 133: Naughton, Nicholas. Rebirth


Box 1 No. 134: Navab, Nahid. Al-Mutanabbi Street, 2007


Box 1 No. 135: Nickerson, Jessie. Untitled


Box 1 No. 136: Olson, Rik. Al-Mutanabbi


Box 1 No. 137: Ormaza, Pedro Francisco. Untitled


Box 1 No. 138: Orso-Giacone, Claudio. …as if God had uttered unnecessary words


Box 1 No. 139: O'Shea, Michael. Re-presence


Box 1 No. 140: Ozgur, Ozlem Ayse. The Death of Hope


Box 1 No. 141: Paki, Mokhtar. Al Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad



Flatbox 2 No. 142: Pawson, Ali. Sanctuary (oversize)



Box 1 No. 143: Perera, Sumi. Transcription, Transliteration, & Translation


Box 1 No. 144: Piazza, Patrick. The People of the Book


No. 145: Pinkle, Amy - see Broadsides


Box 1 No. 146: Plank, Carrie Ann. Absence and Presence


Box 1 No. 147: Potamiandou, Artemis. Moby-Dick: Zero and not


Box 1 No. 148: Rice, Felicia. Roots


Box 1 No. 149: Ripley, Simon. White Flag


Box 1 No. 150: Ripley, Carina. 30/130,000


Box 1 No. 151: Robertson, Phillip. Absence/Presence


Box 1 No. 152: Roleke, Margaret. Targeted


Box 1 No. 153: Rouzie, Susan. Blood


Box 1 No. 154: Rush, Karen. Scribe


Box 1 No. 155: Ryser, Marguerite. Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here


Box 1 No. 156: Sabour, Wael. "Battered Words"


Box 1 No. 157: Sainsbury, Janet. Reading


Box 1 No. 158: Samler, Bev. Untitled


Box 1 No. 159: Sanchez, Ingrid. Composition in Negative Blue


Box 1 No. 160: Sandstrom, Anders. The helmsman



Flatbox 2 No. 161: Savic, Alison. One day



Box 1 No. 162: Shephard, Liz. Falling Flowers


Box 1 No. 163: Sherin, Delphine. Ubi sunt


Box 1 No. 164: Sierek, Jarostaw (Jarek). The Hermitage


Box 1 No. 165: Silverman, Nomi. AMSP7


Box 1 No. 166: Solis, Veronica. Revolt Against the Sun


Box 1 No. 167: Stepien, Donna. Why I Do Not Know


Box 1 No. 168: Stigliano. Charles A. Fallen Angel


Box 1 No. 169: Stigliano, Stephanie Mahan. Presence and Absence; Two Girls Reading


Box 1 No. 170: Struebing-Beazley, Kristen. Weeping Statue


Box 1 No. 171: Sun, Leon. Resurrection


Box 1 No. 172: Taibah, Sarah. It's My Right to "Read"


Box 1 No. 173: Thein, John. Absence


Box 1 No. 174: Thein, John. Presence


Box 1 No. 175: Thompson, Gillian Garnica, Francisco. Censorship


Box 1 No. 176: Tighe, Joseph. Freedom


Box 1 No. 177: Tim, David. From the Debris We'll Rise


Box 1 No. 178: Tinsley, Frederick P. Mutanabbi St. Explosion 2007


Box 1 No. 179: Tomolillo, Bob. Absence and Presence


Box 1 No. 180: Tsvetkov, Sergei. Arch


Box 1 No. 181: Tu Dai, Angela. Escape


Box 1 No. 182: Van Essen, Gwendolyn. Silent Cry


Box 1 No. 183: Wade, Gini. Peace, in the Name of Allah


Box 1 No. 184: Wani, iram. Streets have souls


Box 1 No. 185: Watanabe, Kazuko. Forgotten Episode


Box 1 No. 186: Welden, Tom. Going, Going


Box 1 No. 187: Williams, Michael. Shield of Wisdom / Knowledge Protexts Wisdom


Box 1 No. 188: Winter, Elaine. We Will Always Make Another


Box 1 No. 189: Wood, Hannah. Preservation of ideas through the distortion of words


Box 1 No. 190: Wylde, Nanette. Propagare


Box 1 No. 191: Yazzie, Melanie A. Rebuilding Memory


Box 1 No. 192: York, Elizabeth. Sad


Box 1 No. 193: Zaka, Zaira Ahmad. Peace after every storm