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Biddenden, Kent: Florin Press for Kettle's Yard; Edinburgh: Cambridge & Talbot Rice Gallery, 1987. ISBN: 0906715156.","id":"AUTH332698"},"details":"pp. 15-21 and pp. 58-59","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"Nash, Steven A. and Jörn Merkert. <u>Naum Gabo : sixty years of constructivism</u>. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1985.","id":"AUTH332701"},"details":"cat. no. 69","free":""}],"production":"Attribution note: Gabo did not edition his prints. 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