Pinwheel Pulsar by [Purgatory Pie Press] - 2013

New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 1994. Fine. Number 100. Signed by the book artists. An old record that has been re-produced by the Purgatory Pie Press with a new label printed on both sides: "Roberta 'N' Rob Smith - Lame!" and "Roberta 'N' Rob Smith - Worse!" This "random re-issue" pokes fun at bad records with lots of typos, slogans, and gimmicks. The words 'Lame / Stale' and 'Worse / Fukt-Fi' have been scratched into the record. The record sleeve is printed with information about the fictitious Roberta N Bob fan club and is also signed by them. The plastic bag that covers the sleeve has several stickers which further emphasize the poor record quality "30 years after ... New British Infestation", "This record waz wuns mor popular than it is NOW", etc. The label, sleeve, and stickers are letterpress printed. PRI/010213.

New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 2004. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. Number 172 of 200 copies. Each page features a linoleum cut of a different character including G-Squirt, Drip Nose, Jolly Notso, Scrubby, and more. The face of each member is depicted in a cartoonish, grotesque style. The verso forms a different book - Team Evil - with an additional set of grotesque characters. Fine in off white paper wrappers with yellow illustration and red title to front panel. Unpaginated. [8 pages]. PRI/010212.

New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 2010. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. Number 70 of 150. Each card was set and printed by Dikko Faust. A collection of 12 postcards contained in a box labeled "Elongated Postcards." The designers include: Elizabeth Duffy, Mike Topp, Marc Nasdor, Bryan C. Baker, Rosamond S. King, Jessi Nebraska Gifford, Eve Eisenstadt, Kit Kennedy, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Dikko Faust, and anonymous. Each card is signed by the printed and designer. Each card is printed on a different type of paper. Some designs are typographic, one is printed on velvet, one is embossed, most are humorous, all are interesting. Housed in a white cardstock envelope with a velcro closure. [12 pages.] PRI/010213.

New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 2012. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 18 of 60 copies. A beautifully crafted datebook for 2013. Each binding is unique with different colors of leather and threads. Bound in full orange leather with a black leather tie. The interior is printed in week-at-a-glance format on repurposed nautical charts with wood type that is over 100 years old. The datebooks are a tradition for the Purgatory Pie Press - they have been producing limited edition datebooks since 1980! The leather is slightly discolored on the bottom edge of the rear cover. Designed by Esther K Smith, hand-set by Dikko Faust, and printed on a Vandercook 4 letterpress.

[New York]: Purgatory Pie Press, 1998.. Small octavo (16.5 x 8 cm). 12 panel leporello folded and sewn into printed paper wrapper. Fine. First edition. From a total edition of 144 copies, this is one of 55 copies printed on Johannot rag paper by Dikko Faust, bound in handmade paper. Signed by the designer, Esther K. Smith. "This series of mathematical drawings is based on the growth patterns of plants and the Fibonacci sequence."

New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 1984 One of 150 copies signed by Batalos, Faust, and Esther K. Smith. 6 in. x 5 in. . Letterpress printed by Dikko Faust at the Center for Book Arts (NYC) on waxed Masa Couer paper in Orplid type. Illustrations printed in red, blue, gold, and silver from neoprene plates. A fine copy. Letterpress printmaker Dikko Faust and artistic director Esther K. Smith have collaborated on limited editions, artist books, cards, and prints for over forty years. The press was founded by Faust in 1977. He went on to complete his first two books and the paper for his third, move to New York City, and become the staff letterpress printer at the nascent Center for Book Arts. Purgatory Pie Press merged with the E.K. Smith Museum in 1980.

[New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 1990].. Aluminum and paper construction, contained in 16mm film canister (24 cm diameter), with printed labels on and inside the upper lid. Fine. Copy #35 of an edition planned to consist of 74 copies. Signed by Bartalos, and by Dikko Faust and Esther K. Smith, principals of the press. The construction contains four accordion-fold booklets, letterpress printed on handmade, Khadi jute paper. Each is bound between aluminum covers, which are die-cut into the profile shapes of a cat, duck, crocodile and man's head. They're attached with nuts and bolts to a circular, revolving disk, hinged to a die-cut figure, in an allusion to multi-headed conceptions of Hindu deities. The whole, when folded, is then inserted into the felt-lined film canister, calculated as an ode to Bollywood. "I was in India on this trip with my college roommate, and I was really struck by the industrialization and the modernization of India, juxtaposed with the traditional aspects of it ... It's such an… Read More