The Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, Iowa, 1984. Softcover.  Here is an utterly remarkable offering, deserving of hyperbole. Seven of the eleven featured artists have flat-signed the book beside their photographs (see my photos). The book was produced by The Octagon Center for the Arts in conjunction with an exhibition held March 22 to April 29, 1984 and toured between September 1984-December 1985. It begins with an introduction by the curator Martha Benson and essays by Cleota Reed ("Tried by Fire: Women Pioneers of the Art Pottery Movement in America") and Susan Peterson ("Living Legends: Lucy Lewis and Santana Martinez"). That is followed by 'six over sixty': each of the six artists has one page with a black-and-white photograph, one page of a biographical sketch and two pages with large photographs of their work (one in black-and-white and one in color). 'the continuum' (under sixty) follow with one page with a photograph and biographical sketch and one page with a large black-and-white photograph of their work. The last page is titled Footnotes. The 'six over sixty' are Laura Andreson, Ruth Duckworth, Vivika Heino (of Otto and Vivika Heino fame), Lucy M. Lewis, Santana Martinez, and Beatrice Wood. The 'continuum': Christina Bertoni, Jamie Fine, Karen Karnes, Sally Bowen Prange, and Elsa Rady. The artists who Signed the book are Ruth Duckworth, Vivika Heino, Lucy M. Lewis, Santana Martinez, (And, making it 8) her sculptor husband Adam Martinez, Christina Bertoni, Jamie Fine, and Sally Bowen Prange. The book is 48 pages long. Just how rare is this book? There isn't another copy anywhere on the Internet that is signed by even one of the featured artists.