
Oblique Strategies: Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt.
Oblique Strategies: Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. "Fifth, again slightly revised edition, 2001" stated on one of the two informative cards. This set is complete with 103 dilemma cards and two informative cards (I counted them). In a published 3 1/8" x 4" x 2" box. There is light wear on some of the box edges. Bright gilt lettering on two of the box sides. No previous owner markings. No tears, folds or creases to cards. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. sIL20a "In 1970, Peter Schmidt created "The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts",[4] a box containing 55 sentences letterpress printed onto disused prints that accumulated in his studio, which is still in Eno's possession. Eno, who had known Schmidt since the late 1960s, had been pursuing a similar project himself, which he had handwritten onto a number of bamboo cards and given the name "Oblique Strategies" in 1974. There was a sign