Book Arts

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2002.. Edition of 10. 11 x 16.5" with three section compound binding. Hand colored silk-screen prints with collage. This book's pages are composed of portraits of the fifteen birds listed by the state of Maine as Threatened or Endangered.

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."

[Simi Valley, California]:: Pie in the Sky Press,, 2019.. Edition of 50. Standard: 7.5 x 11"; 64 pages. Letterpress printing on the Vandercook Universal III power press using Centaur and Arrighi type, cast by M & H Type Foundry and Swamp Press, wood French Clarendon, and photo polymer plates onto Zerkall Book Wove, handmade Kitakata, and Korean Hanji papers. Botanical pages (contact prints) printed on Strathmore Aquarius II watercolor paper. Longstitch binding, sewn with hand-dyed Kinglet Cottage linen thread through a white oak spine. Bound in a cover of contact printed and dyed handmade Indigo watercolor paper. Signed and numbered by the artist. Deluxe: Housed in 9.75 x 12.75 x 2.5" cloth-covered hinged box lined with Cave handmade paper. Set in a niche compartment is a Quercus lobata acorn. The acorn has been frozen for 12 months, baked for 8 hours then sealed. In a drawer with cloth pull tab is "Quercus", a suite of prints. Each print signed and dated. A standard… Read More

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1909. Twelve illustrations in black and red on butcher's paper by Burt Barneson. Decorations by Dard Hunter, although not credited in the book. Very Good, quarter brown suede over grey paper covered boards with matching grey end papers, outer layer of suede peeling at top edge pf spine, rubbing to suede along spine, light wear to boards, title and following half-title pages are uncut, remainder of the book is cut, pages either side of illusttrations are uniformly toned. SCARCE in current commerce in collectible condition. . . First Edition. Quarter Suede . Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

North Carolina:: Wobble Press,, 2021.. Edition of 15 + 2 AP. 8.75" x 10.25" x 1.25"; 72 pages. Pigment prints on Moab Entrada Rag Bright 190 gm. Custom hardcover case binding with hinged foldout front and back covers using inlaid magnets. Custom slipcase with inlaid label. Signed and numbered by the artist. Tyler Starr: "'The Aryan Republican Army (ARA) committed 22 armed bank robberies in the Midwest from November 11,1992 to December 19, 1995. The objectives of its leaders, Richard Lee Guthrie and Peter Kevin Langan, were to raise funds for the white supremacist movement and overthrow the U.S. government. The ARA was part of the broader movement of white supremacist terrorism that weaves its presence through American history to the present. Since 2019, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI began to officially acknowledge that white supremacists are the top domestic terrorism threat. "By transforming text from FBI documents into images, this book… Read More

Cairo, Egypt:: Islam Aly,, 2022.. Edition of 50 + 5 proofs. Box size: 14.5 x 5 x 2.5" closed, 14.5 x 10 x 2.5" opened. Book size: 9 x 4.5". Cloth-covered box. Leather wrapping connected to brass cut pieces. Materials: Silk-screened book cloth, inkjet printed text, handmade paper, linen thread, book board, museum board, laser-cut Canson paper, and five brass boats in a compartment. Coptic binding. Signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Islam Aly: "'Mare Nostrum' is a bilingual book in English and Arabic that highlights the Mediterranean Immigration Crisis. People from Sub-Saharan Africa, the middle and far East come to North Africa to cross the Mediterranean using primitive boats and with the help of traffickers of immigrants. According to the missing migrant project, more than 23600 missing migrants have been recorded in the Mediterranean since 2014. "'Mare Nostrum' is a box with two compartments. On the left is a book with images of boats… Read More

Waitakere Ranges, New Zealand:: Sam Sampson,, 2022.. Edition of 20. 300 x 225 mm; 28 unnumbered pages. Digital Indigo printed on Mohawk archival paper (Ultra White Smooth pages 148gsm and cover 270gsm). Printed by Centurion, Auckland, New Zealand. Die-cut cover. Hand sewn binding with black thread. Hand-bound by Louise James of The Binding Studio in the Waitakere Ranges, West Auckland, New Zealand. Designed by jacindatorrance of Verso Visual Communications, Auckland. Numbered and signed by Sampson. Copies 1-10 housed in a hinged-lid box with magnetic flap, 35mm outer walls with Chelsea Beige 045 binding cloth (100 percent cotton with pigmented coating) with the ((( Sun-O ))) emblem foiled on the front in white. A black ribbon lifts out each edition. The boxes are lined with ColourPlan Bright Red acid-free paper and feature a different printed design inspired by the original Mallarmé poem and my homage. Each design is digital Indigo white ink and the typeface is DTL Elzevir. Sam… Read More

Iowa City, Iowa:: Emily Martin,, 2022.. Standard Edition of 25. 11 x 8"; 22 pages. Printed letterpress with polymer plates from Boxcar Press on Arches Text wove paper. Non-adhesive covers of flax and abaca papers made by Mary Hark for the outside and flax papers from the University of Iowa Center for the Book for the inside. Accordion structure. Removable spine to extend pages. Laid in cloth covered clamshell box with paper title on spine. Paper puppet inclusions printed on University of Iowa Center for the Book Chancery paper and costumed in papers of wheat straw, sisal, daylily fibers, and abaca paste papers made by Andrea Peterson. Signed and numbered by the artist. Emily Martin: "'Madness' was created during the pandemic and went through many forms before it became what you see here. It's appearance and content are very much shaped by my time in isolation. Initially, I copied out the play 'Hamlet' by hand starting in March 2020 because I was too anxious to sit and… Read More

[Octon, France]:: Verdigris Press,, 2013.. Edition of 50. 4.75 x 12.5"; 17 pages. Accordion structure extending from back pastedown. Letterpress printed in Univers on an Adana 8 x 5 by Mark Lintott using chestnut-colored ink. Printed on Hahnemulhe paper. Three mezzotints by Judith Rothchild. Bound in screenprinted paper, shades of brown with chestnut leaves, over boards. Laid in matching clamshell box. Author and title printed in black on spine and box. Signed and numbered by printer and artist. Of the edition numbers 1 - 10 include an additional mezzotint and are in a clamshell box; 1 -4 also include one of the original copper plates. Copies 11-50 presented in slipcases. Neruda's text is accompanied with three mezzotints by Judith Rothchild. While the text presentation is sparse and clean the images are velvety and dense. They capture the essence of Neruda's words - "from bristly foliage" to "only a seed".

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:: Luminice Press,, 2022.. Edition of 12. 7.25" x 9.25" x .6" closed, extends to 106..5"; 6 folded panels. Accordion structure extending from back board foredge. Oil-based relief inks and dry pigments in burnt plate oil. Text letterpress printed from polymer plates. Six original images hand printed with 41 pochoir mylar stencils; Bound in paper over board with oil-based pochoir image with spine of Washi Linen. Concept, design, illustrations, pochoir, printing, binding by Thomas Parker Williams. Concept, text layout, original and selected text, printing by Mary Agnes Williams. Signed and numbered by the artists. One pulls out a lovely pochoir of a river blue and flowing that evokes images of contemplation and serenity, beauty and freedom but as the river narrows these images become restricted, the river narrows. The introduction had already set the tone of something lurking just outside our view - "We are losing our freedoms, one by one". -… Read More

Milwaukee, Wisconsin:: redthreadletterpress,, 2022.. Edition of 10. 11" x 11" x 1.5" custom box containing triangular book. Toner transfer and gouache in a Wire Edge Binding. Letterpress printed using photopolymer plates on rive BFK heavyweights and lokta papers. Typeset in Charter Roman and Italic faces. Colophon presented on a triangular plate attached to inside of the box lid. Book rests in the tray triangle cavity. Trench underneath tray to serve as display area for book. Book and enclosure design by Melissa Wagner-Lawler. Signed by the artist. Melissa Wagner-Lawler: "'Low Tide' is an artist book object created in 2022 using the randomly drawn Artist Book Idea Card set parameters. This version of the book incorporates text and image printed using toner transfer techniques and hand painted gouache on the wire edge bound book. The first part of the poem is outlined in the book, while the later part is printed on the trench that holds the sculptural artist book when… Read More

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Inkswine Press,, 2023.. Edition of 10. The book measures 11 x 6.125 x .75 inches closed (28 x 15.5 x 2 cm), and 11 x 54 x 3 inches when on display (28 x 137 x 7.6 cm). The accordion style book on heavy wove Arches rag paper has 6 panels plus a center 3-page flag book section. There is a colophon page in the back. The typeface used for the letterpress printing is Goudy Oldstyle. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dirk Hagner: "Mark Twain, the great humorist and keen observer of the 'lowest animal', one of the treasures of American literature, is the subject of this artist book. A large original reduction color woodcut portrait of him is featured on its pages. "Of course, Mark Twain was only his nom de plume, his real name was Samuel Longhorne Clemens. A page in the book shows his penned 'SLC' initials with which he often signed his correspondence. "There are so many marvelous quotes by Twain. Three of them are used… Read More

Orlando, Florida:: Rachel Simmons ,, 2023.. Edition of 10. Doubled-sided accordion in a hard cover magnetic enclosure with letterpress and screen prints on French and Thai kozo papers, book cloth, and decorative Japanese paper. Closed dimensions are 13.5” tall x 6.75” wide x .78” deep. Open dimensions are 13.5” tall x 16” wide x .5” deep, and for standing display, the dimensions are 13.5” tall x 50” wide x 4” deep. Written, designed and printed by Rachel Simmons, Numbered. Rachel Simmons: "Through cinematic visual language, Dream of the Golden Empress tells the story of an arrogant emperor bent on environmental destruction. The characters in this allegory— the Emperor, the Golden Empress and the People— are archetypes referencing actors from the current political landscape in the United States. Like shadow puppets, each character embodies easily recognizable traits like greed, selfishness, compassion, anger and love. The lush color palette… Read More

SIGNED by Ruscha on title page. One of 3000 unnumbered copies.Very well-preserved and archived copy. Original glassine wrapper has a tiny fold in upper left corner, and minor tanning on edges due to age, as shown in picture.I purchased this copy in 1982 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, when they hosted Ed Ruscha's first major museum retrospective.

Georgia / Germany:: etc Press,, 2023.. Edition of 13. 12.5 x 16.25" chipboard box with title in silver on cover. Box contents: pamphlet and nine prints. Text: English and German. Papers: Romerturm Cristalla. Typefaces: Andale Mono and Trade Gothic. Printing: screenprints, Risograph, laser prints. Photographs taken by the artists in Vienna, Austria. Pamphlet: 5.5 x 7.75"; 24 pages including covers. Prints: 12 x 16" double sided; each laid in a translucent folder. Cynthia Lollis: "The artists traveled to Vienna, Austria to see what they could learn about the female patients of Sigmund Freud. While they were there, they were struck by the many obsessive collections that presented themselves across the city. "A mirror of these collections, 'Sammlungen/Collections' is comprised of nine prints enclosed by translucent folders. Peeking through are wallpapers designed by the artists based on objects on display at Vienna's natural history museum. On top of these… Read More