Between 1963 and 1965, Ray Johnson, collagist and founder of mail art’s “New York Correspondance [sic] School”, issued 13 (identified) pages of A Book About Death. Each page reproduced, via black-and-white offset lithography, drawings by Johnson (and, on two of the pages, by Hairy Who artist Karl Wirsum) with short, enigmatic texts mentioning Johnson’s friends George Brecht, May WIlson, Alison Knowles, Andy Warhol (who sponsored one of the pages) and others. Johnson mailed them in small groups over the years to numerous recipients, thus full sets of this publication are extremely rare. This reprint, faithful in form and spirit to the original, allows a look at the whole; 6 extra pages reproduce Johnson’s drawings, collages and letters relating to the book. Edited and with an explanatory text by William S. Wilson.