Service: A Trilogy on Colonization. A Budding Gourmet, McTowers Maid, Tijuana Maid

New York: Printed Matter, Inc, 1978. Oblong perfect-bound book (12.7 x 20.3 cm.), [unpaginated]. FIRST EDITION, from an unnumbered edition of 1000. Three postal or mail art works by Martha Rosler combined into one offset printed artist's book. Contains "A Budding Gourmet," "McTowers Maid," and "Tijuana Maid." "This is a book of three novels and one translation. In their original form the novels were sent through the mail as postcard series, one card about every five to seven days. Mail both is and isn't a personal communication. But whether welcome or unwelcome it thrusts itself upon you, so to speak, and must be dealt with in the context of your own life. Its immediacy may allow its message to penetrate the usual bounds of your attention. A serial communication can hook you, engaging your long-term interest (intermittently, at least). There was a lot of time -- and mental space -- around each installment of these novels, time in which the communication could unfold and reverberate. So they are long novels, and slow ones . . . ." (the author's preface). Fine, in photo illustrated wrappers.