Small quarto. A triptych of booklets which unfold in panels reminiscent of a ledger, certainly an appropriate structure for this material and literary retelling of Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener. The first booklet comprises printer-publisher Thorsten Baensch's homage to the titular character, with four illustrations interleaved and a facsimile of the covers of Kostelanetz's copy of the Bantam Classics edition as centerfold. The second booklet is Kostelanetz's own reworking of Melville's text, modernizing it to suit the current state of late-capitalist New York. The final entry is a facsimile of Bartleby's first issuance in 1853, in Putnam's Monthly. The book offers an adaptation, then, not only in the literal and narrative senses, but in the technological support itself, from handwriting to letterpress to copy machine. Bound in yellow paper over boards. In publisher's box. Fine.