Search Results: Get Moving! from Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2016.. Edition of 5. 7 x 9.25"; 20 pages. Pop-ups. Flutter book construction. Monotype silkscreen prints and monotype gelatin plate prints. Handcut and handcolored with ink and colored pencil. Handwritten text. Cloth bound flat-backed case with an onlay beneath the cloth on the front cover. Rebecca Goodale: "After years of walking in the woods, studying, and eating mushrooms, this is my first book about some of the most delicious mushrooms in my town."

Chicago, Illinois:: Peptic Robot Press,, 2007.. Edition of 25. 7 x 7"; 48 pages. Dos-a-dos construction. Handmade cotton/flax paper. Boards finished with beeswax and closed with twine string ties. Includes two pop-ups and four foldout pages. Typeface Minion Pro. Produced at the Columbia College of Chicago's Book & Paper Center. An ambitious project, full of typographical and literate wit and insight. Puns, both visual and word-based, abound. Even the nonsense makes sense. You have to be willing to play the game, but if you are, The Artificer… is engineered to provide much fun — and food for thought. Joseph Lappie: "The Artificer Arisen, The Artificer Fallen aims to present the archetype of the engineer (or obsessive maker of mades) as a symbol for human potential and the failure to achieve that potential.  "I use the mythological figure of Daedalus, or more specifically the ideal of Daedalus, as the central character throughout the cyclical storyline.… Read More

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2014.. Edition of 8. 7.5 x 7"; hybrid structure of 13 flag pages plus an 8-page pamphlet sewn into on fold. Accordion structure extending from back pastedown. 13 flag pages have 3 asymmetric flags per page. Silkscreen and hand painting. Printed on [Katie] MacGregor Handmade Paper. Letterpress text designed and printed by Scott Vile of Ascenius Press. Bound in cloth-covered boards. Numbered. Signed by artist and poet.. Another in Goodale's Threatened and Endangered series. Rebecca Goodale's heart-shaped flags are accompanied by Miller's poem. Wild ginger, a low perennial with two heart-shaped leaves, is listed in Maine's threatened flora category. Cathleen Miller: "I am a poet, herbalist, artist, dreamer, gardener, systems-thinker, and special collections librarian living in Portland, Maine. I am an observer, in poems and in life. I write about connection, desire, place, the natural world, and bodies in space".

Kingston, Washington:: Full Plate Press,, 2016.. Edition of 16. 6.5 x 9"; 28 pages including pastedowns. Double-sided accordion. Image pages printed relief. Fabriano Artistico Traditional White hot-press watercolor paper with a variety of colored papers used in the pop-up sections. Tahoma typeface. Bound in cloth boards. In cloth slipcase. Numbered. Includes 8 page pamphlet of Production Notes. Colophon: "Beyond Boundaries is a collection of poems and images which are reflections upon the boundaries we have encountered in our lives. Some of these boundaries are physical borders, others are internal guilts, philosophical divides, cultural differences, or emotional and intellectual edges. We have found that some boundaries, lines, or borders hold us back or contain us, while others beg to be crossed, and in crossing them we find ourselves set free of the constraints in our lives. We ask the reader to enjoy this book with an eye to examining the boundaries in his or her own life, and to… Read More

North Bay, Ontario:: Transformer Press,, 2005.. Edition of 10. 10.5 x 8.25"; 13 pages with six pop-ups. Accordion structure. Bound in patterned cloth with fashion magazine illustration and paper title on front board. Colophon on back pastedown. Uses illustrations from fashion magazines. Text computer typeset in Lucida Calligraphy. Printed using a Xerox Colour Series 50 photocopies on Rolland Hitech acid-free 80 lb. paper. Many-Fur (Allerleirau in German) was one of the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Perrault collected a similar story known as Donkeyskin (Peau d'Ane in French.) As it involves incest, it has fallen out of modern collections for children. Lise Melhorn-Boe: "Because it is a less-well-known fairy tale, probably because of the implied incest, I chose to actually include the entire story as the text, rather than using words and phrases from the women's magazines as I did with the other four fairy tales."

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:: Thomas Parker Williams,, 2010.. Edition of 8. 8 x 11.25 x 1.75" closed, opens to 8 x 11.75 x 16"; 72 paper panels. Seven colors, printed double-sided (reduction linocut), cut with scroll saw, mounted on a dyed tyvek 6 x 12" accordion matrix in case that is bound in dyed tyvek and printed with single color linocut front, back, and sides. Magnetic catches secure the structure in the open and closed positions. Signed and numbered by the artist. Thomas Parker Williams: "Mountainside Matrix is a book structure representing the natural complexity of a mountainside forest in autumn.  "The basic structure is made up of six, 12-panel parallel accordions tied together at each end and spaced apart to allow for collapsing to a flat form. Additional tie points are added in 20 places to allow for uniform movement when collapsing and extending. Magnetic catches secure the structure in the open and closed positions.

North Bay, Canada:: Transformer Press,, 2000.. Edition of 8. 7.75 x 10.5" accordion fold with ten pages. Each double page with a moveable / pop-up structure. Created using text and images from popular magazines and Canon Laser colour-copied on 55-lb. Pro-21 Eco-source paper. No spinning wheels in this up-dated version of the well-known story—it's a stiletto heel that puts this Beauty to sleep. Images and text are collaged from fashion magazines.

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2006.. Edition of 10. 5.5 x 15.5" closed, entends to 55". Silkscreen printed using a screen with wax resist. Interlocking accordion book bound into a flat backed, maroon cloth covered case. Another in Goodale's Threatened and Endangered series, a book of a flowing tangle of grapes.

Irvine, California:: Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli,, 2016.. Edition of 10, second printing. 8" diameter circular flexagon binding with magnet closure. 12 circular leaves with 2" diameter. Materials: Vellum, bristol, Mohab, Entrada, brass. Housed in white clamshell box with magnet closure and paper title label on lid. Blue paper wrapper with artist statement and colophon label adhered to interior of box. Flexagon laid inside wrapper. Signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon. Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli: "While watching clouds that were passing over the port of Genoa (Italy) I was inspired to create this artist's book. In the midst of thoughts about nature's forces and movements, tragic events in my life let me take stock of my existence. "The movement of the clouds creates an unpredictable and mysterious energy that colors our thoughts. In this atmospheric energy I found the strength to contemplate my past and imagine my future, I even glanced at my horoscope to… Read More

West Sussex, England:: Circle Press,, 2007.. Edition of 350. 56 pages, 16.5 x 11 cm (6.5 x 4.3"). A red and white double-sided concertina alphabet book with the new miniscules (designed for alphabeta concertina miniscule) combined with Richard Price's poem. Cut and creased onto Heritage Book paper and glued to silk screened Heritage Museum end-boards. Circle Press: "... a collaboration with poet Richard Price. It pairs King at his most elegantly minimalist and sculptural with a new suite of love poems by Price at his most witty and tender.