letterpress from metal types on mouldmade and handmade papers with
emphasis on hand techniques and special attention to high standards in craft
and to harmony of design and text. Each copy is hand sewn and hand
bound. Bookcloths are natural finish. All copies are signed.
Hawai'i
One Summer Eleven magical
autobiographical prose sketches and a foreword written by award-winning
author Maxine Hong Kingston during one summer in Hawai'i. Four
landscape woodcuts in brilliant color by Deng Ming-Dao, one a
22-inch fold-out. The title and initials are handlettered by
John Prestianni and printed in warm red. Set in Times New Roman
types on natural Korean Kozo. The sides are covered with purple,
red and yellow paste papers. 75 copies in a special exposed-sewn
binding structure designed by Betty Lou Chaika with a red cloth
slipcase. 75 copies casebound. 66 pages. 9 x 12 inches tall.
Special binding/slipcase $450, Casebound $350.
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Blank
Country Twenty poems
in Debora Greger's tightly woven, strongly crafted style with
a fold-out lithograph by Madel Greger. 130 copies printed in
black, indigo and green with Dante and Castellar types on Frankfurt
cream and tan Nideggen papers. The innovative binding has an
indigo cloth spine and printed Fabriano Roma sides over Museum
boards. 34 pages. 7 x 12 inches tall. $85.
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Shaving
at Night Dark humor and
haunting pain combine in the subtle poetry of Charles Simic.
Three woodcuts in Helen Siegl's vigorous style in dark blue,
one repeated on the front cover. 200 copies are printed on white
Frankfurt paper with Spectrum types, poem titles in orchid.Casebound
over Davey boards with a dark blue cloth spine and printed gray
Fabriano Roma sides. 32 pages. 6 x 9 1/2 inches tall. $60.
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A
Sky Empty of Orion Fifteen poems
by Laura Jensen expressing solitude and wonder with a drawing
by Janice Mae Schopfer in violet, sky blue, tan and silver. 130 copies
in Centaur, Arrighi and Goudy Open types on white Lana Laid.
Bound in Skycraft marbled paper sides and a blue-gray cloth spine
over boards. 28 pages. 5 1/2 x 10 inches tall. $50. View A Sky Empty of Orion
Sensing Eight poems by
poet Sandra McPherson with a woodcut of a mimosa branch on the
title page. Set in Janson Linotype and printed on cream Ingres
Antique. 100 copies are casebound over boards with a blue cloth
spine, Fabriano endsheets and paper sides hand marbled in blue,
blue-gray and violet. 100 copies sewn into light blue Gainesborough
paper covers. 25 pages. 8 1/2 x 8 1/3 inches tall. (Casebound
out of print) A few paperbound copies left. Paperbound $20.
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Imagine
a Moment Three short stories
by Robert Pope, soliloquies on solitude, pregnancy and a photo
of a 1913 nude reproduced in the book. Three woodcuts in terra
cotta, one on the cover. Titles in brown. Printed in Garamond
types on flecked Gutenberg Laid. 120 copies casebound in gray
cloth; 80 copies in gray Canson paper covers. 36 pages. 6 5/6
x 10 1/3 inches tall. Casebound $40, Paperbound
$30.
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Passages Stephen Vincent's
poems focus on parenting and children from the viewpoint of the
father. Two monoprints of children drawn by Phyllis Rockne. 75 copies
are on tan Ingres Antique with Spectrum types in sepia and warm
red. Casebound in full red Crescent paper over boards. 12 pages.
5 x 8 inches tall. A few copies left. $35.
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A
Garland of Iowa Songs Harry Oster,
editor. Traditional folk songs of midwestern ethnic groups, three
with musical scores. 200 copies on tan Nideggen in Palatino and
American Uncial types. Deep blue Canson paper covers with light
green endsheets. 24 pages. 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches tall. A few
copies left. $35.
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