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  • Collection: Artists' Books

front cover of the artists book Melting Point
Publisher's Description
“At the height of the Cold War in 1950s Iowa, we did duck and cover air raid drills in school. Crouching under my desk with my hands folded over my head, I remember wondering that if the atomic bomb could melt my flesh right…

artists book Coqui, Coqui: Poems opened up
Title from cover. Edition of 50. Contains four sheets (dimensions 10'' x 10'') issued in a folded cover. Using an antique letterpress, it was printed from magnesium plates on Stonehenge art papers. Cover painted with watercolor. Each folio is signed…

front cover of 39 Kinds of Work
Limited edition of 500. Hand-folded brochure, letterpress blue ink on white paper with red hand-stamping. Impractical Labor lists and discusses the 39 Melachot, the 39 categories of work used in building the Temple, and also the types of work…

artists book Exits West opened up
Created by Andrew Huot at the University of the Arts in the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts on a Heidelberg offset press on 60 lb. text weight Cougar Opaque; the typeface is Frutiger. Thanks to Master Printer Lori Spencer for her help and…

z-fold and cover of the artists book Ogham
Casebound book. Letterpress printed on BFK Rives paper using Univers type. Accordion-folded book enclosed in a board covered with handmade paper. Paper made by Terry Horrigan. Calligraphy by Ann Miller. Illustrated with a photoengraving of a memorial…

the artists book Poodle Parlour opened
Imprint from colophon. "A book of nine reproductions and one original photograph "--Colophon. Limited edition of 500 copies, with print signed on verso. Mounted illustration.

front cover of the artists book Beauty
... designed and printed at Peque̱o Press by Patrice Baldwin. It was printed in Caslon type on Frankfurt text paper. Silver paper over boards ... Shrine to beauty made in Peru inset in cover. Ribbons on spine to frill it up. Printed and bound at…

front cover of the artists book Tracy, Earlier Today
A charming flip book of a sequence taken from Eric Rohmer's 1972 film, 'Love in the Afternoon,' superimposed upon footage of Sixth Avenue, New York. As the girl waits and flicks through the pages of a book, as cars pass behind her on the busy avenue.…

pages from the artists book Clock Work Fish
Limited edition of 100. Creations featured: SeaHorse, LionFish, Mahi Mahi, Coconut Crab, Scorpion Fish, Jellyfish, and Baracuda. Guy Himber: "A functional book built completely from LEGO. The eight pages are filled with unique, aquatic animals…

artists book Modern-Day Watermarking opened up
This pamphlet was published in 2005 by Helen Hiebert of Enlightened Papers; the watermarks were hand-cut using Sure Stamp, available from www.dhamatrading.com; the paper was made on a Tim Moore laid mould; Diane Jacobs of Scrantron Press letterpress…
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