Pulsars. Illustrated with a Silkscreen Print by Sam Gilliam by Perishable Press. Lewis, Harry - 1974

Mt. Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press Ltd, 1974. Unique binding by Coleen Curry, full purple goat suede with onlays and paint, on one of 150 copies, all on Nideggen & Frankfurt Cream for the text, numbered with the ear-tatoo device employed by, printer / designer, Walter Hamady. Page size: 11-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches; 28pp; 16 of which are printed. Bound by Coleen Curry: full purple goat suede with paper collage, acrylic paint and Italian silk sewing, blind tooling on cover with binder's custom tool; cover attached to book with secondary sewing consisting of ten-18K gold wire staples secured by handmade wood and parchment tackets. Original book pamphlet stitched with red and blue Moriki paper and with embossed green goat sued flyleaves. Book is affixed on red wood stub to allow for completely flat opening of silkscreen print by Sam Gilliam. Original paper wrappers in brown bound in along with the prospectus; housed in a custom-made clamshell box. This handsome publication from Walter Hamady's Perishable Press is set in Palatino and printed in red, black, navy blue & yellow; the titlepage display is Open Kapitalen and Augustea filetta. Sam Gilliam's vibrant silkscreen centerfold captures the energy of a pulsar - as does Ms. Curry's lovely binding. She writes that her goal was to compliment the silkscreen as well as reflect some of Lewis' references to astrophysics. The Perishable Press prospectus calls this book a "tactile event" and it appears to be even more so with this manipulated and distressed suede binding. PP#65.