Mystery Girls' Circus and College of Conundrum, Official Route Book, Season of 1991

Unpaginated. Stab-sewn binding with brown and dark brown zebra pattern cloth, metallic teal question mark on front board. An unusual and elaborate production, published for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, as the 1991 Library Fellows Artists' Book. 125 copies were printed, of which 25 were given to Dunn. From the remaining 100, a copy was given to each member of the Library Fellows at the time, and the remaining copies were available for sale. Includes a foldout lithograph printed at Ink On Paper, and type, linoleum and magnesium cuts printed at M Kimberly Press, where the book was bound. Though it is not noted in the book, M Kimberly Press was founded by Mare Blocker (the illustrator of this volume) in 1984. The book purports to be an 'official route book' giving the tour schedule of a circus, with diary-style entries of events occurring throughout the tour, interspersed with Blocker's artwork, which explores various media. According to Sandra Kroupa of Special Collections, Manuscripts and University Archives at University of Washington, "Katherine and Mare did such a convincing job of evoking The Mystery Girls’ Circus that the library on the East Coast, to be unnamed, that cataloged the book first, believed the Circus to be real and dutifully created real subject headings for it." By the author of Geek Love.