Jeremy Deller's "The Uses of Literacy" (1999)

London, England: Jeremy Deller and Book Works (book, chapbook), 1999.
8.25" x 5.875", 48 pages, holographic wraps, ISBN 1-870699-38-6.

The Uses of Literacy by Jeremy Deller, as published in wraps in 1999. This is a book of art by fans of the Manic Street Preachers.

Minor Burroughs reference in the center spread, which shows "books that have been acknowledged by the Manic Street Preachers as being influential, subsequently collected and read by Donna Marshall." The spine of Burroughs' The Naked Lunch is shown just to the left of the fold line.

This copy was acquired as a gift from Jim Pennington, Aloes Books (London).