Modern rubber stamp books tend to be about crafting, journaling, scrapbooking, card making, etc. It's all a bit twee nowadays. This book, from the late 1970s, predates those trends, and it's mostly about making wacky mail art. Strong, simple graphic design -- black ink with spot colors throughout for the rubber stamp images. None of your full-color, distressed ink stamping, elaborate Griffin & Sabine knock-off imagery here; just clever use of stamps, pads and paper.

I had forgotten how much of an impact this book had on me back when it came out -- while re-reading it, I remembered the wording of very specific passages, and even several stamped phrases that still run through my brain from time to time (specifically, the non sequitur, "So I says, who looks at the bottoms?")

Immediately after borrowing this from archive.org, I ordered a copy from alibris.com.

(04/10/24 UPDATE: I found the hardback edition at a thrift store, so I will put the trade paperback in a Little Free Library.)