(Incline Press) YEAR IN A MARBLER'S WORKSHOP | A by Muir, Ann - 1999: HARVESTING COLOUR

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Inkswine Press,, 2020.. Edition of 10. 25 pages. Measuring 7.875 x 5.75 x 0.5 inches (20 x 14.6 x 1.3 cm). Printed letterpress on heavy weight translucent sheets over 2-color screen-printed type compositions on 250 gm deckle edge rag paper. Hard cover, single page quarter binding, bookmark ribbons. Sea green Ingres end papers with red kozo edging. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dirk Hagner: "I made these little volumes of contemporary New Collective Nouns recently. They are dedicated to James Lipton, whom I would have loved to send a copy. Alas, he passed away in 2020. Thank you for your inspiration and your passion for collective nouns among so many other things. There are 11 new collective nouns." wikipedia, 6/9/2021: "Louis James Lipton (September 19, 1926 – March 2, 2020) was an American writer, lyricist, actor, and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He was the executive producer,… Read More

Orlando, Florida:: Rachel Simmons / Benjamin D. Rinehart,, 2021.. Edition of 10. Folding container holding two flextangle rings and one pamphlet. Signed and numbered by the artists.Number of pages: Flextangle - 4 surfaces, pamphlets - 36 pages combined. Medium: collapsible box with archival pigment & pressure prints and vinyl labels; archival pigment printed flextangles and pamphlet book. Dimensions: container- 10" x 5.5" x 2.5" (closed), 15" x 18" (open) Flextangles- 4.5" x 4.5" x 2". Pamphlet- 10" x 5.5" x .1825" (closed), 10" x 11" x .1825" (open). Paper: Bristol 20 pt. and Mohawk Superfine Text soft white 28 lbs. Flextangle: Images, text, and vinyl labels printed on an archival Epson printer. Container & cover: Designs created using pressure printing with oil-based ink. Closure: Magnets. Project Statement: "Fractured Fathers is a collaborative artists book created by Benjamin D. Rinehart from Appleton,… Read More

First edition, 1977, second printing after the 1938 first. Progress Publishers, Moscow. Large octavo, original yellow cloth, with copper casings fastened over both boards, designed by Koba Gouruli.
The Knight in the Panther's Skin is an unequivocal work by medieval Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli, this translation by Marjory Waldrop was the first prose translation in the English language. This copy bound in a unique copper relief casing featuring a traditional Georgian portrait to the front with a bold pattern and Georgian script to the rear board.
A prolific translator, Waldrop travelled to Georgia in the late 1800s when it was still part of Imperial Russia, and published three English translations of Georgian titles in the following five years. The Knight in the Panther's Skin was the fourth and final translation, but was only published in 1912 three years after her death. Waldrop refused publication in her lifetime, feeling it wasn't up to snuff. It remains the translation against which all others… Read More

Birmingham, AL: National Engraving Company, 1960. spiral-bound binder. Engraving. square 4to. spiral-bound binder. unpaginated. A lovely catalogue of engraving samples supplied by this large commercial printer. Features over 200 specimens of various typefaces and illustrations on envelopes, letterhead, business cards, invitations, and other marketing tools. In near fine condition.

San Francisco, California:: Insiya Dhatt,, 2022.. Edition of 20. 12 x 9" closed; 11 pages. Double sided accordion. Bound like a wedding album with henna-colored handmade Japanese Momi Kyoseishi paper and covered in a bridal sari to represent the life of a married woman. The henna hands art was laser engraved on handmade Indian cotton rag paper using an Epilog Fusion Pro laser. The text is letterpressed printed using Garamond typeface on a Vandercook cylinder press. Signed and numbered by the artist. Insiya Dhatt: "'Vidai' was conceptualized at the beginning of 2022 to share the tradition of arranged marriages in India and the artist's own experience.  "The book is a two-sided accordion and includes the poem 'Hands Latticed' written by Athena Kashyap in her book 'Sita's Choice' about her grandmother's experience in an arranged marriage. The book opens with the poem that aptly describes the trepidation faced by a young bride and a lifetime of… Read More

Kingston, Ontario, Canada:: Transformer Press,, 2019.. Edition of 10. 12 x 12" closed, opens to 36 x 36"; 9 panels with 9 panes within. Materials: quilting fabric scraps, thread. Screen printed text. Signed and numbered by the artist. Lise Melhorn-Boe: "Counterpanes is a meander book that opens out to resemble a quilt, with nine-patch squares. These fabric books were screen-printed in an eccentric edition of 10 … using up drawers-full of quilting fabric scraps. For the edition of 10, I cut over 900 4.5" squares. There is one book in reds, and there are four in oranges, three in purples and two in greens." Four of the middle patches in four of the panels contain a poem by Hazel Hall. "Hazel Hall lived in Portland, Oregon, in the early 20th century. She was confined to the upper floor of her family home, where she took in sewing to augment the family's income, and wrote poetry. At least 35 of her poems are directly about sewing; many others use… Read More

Milwuakee, Wisconsin:: Evelyn Patricia Terry,, 2021.. Series Variant, each unique. 3 x 3"; 6 panels including book boards. Miniature altered book. Materials: intaglio prints, screen prints, pastel, thread, artist's hair, permanent ink. Includes collage and handwritten text. Signed by the arist. A miniature version of Terry's original serires "America, Guests Who Came to Dinner (and Stayed)." Evelyn Patricia Terry: "'America, Guests Who Came to Dinner (and Stayed)', an altered book series, transforms books with cut, torn, sewn and glued original prints, drawings and handmade paper produced during my 50-plus year printmaking and drawing career. The distinct group of books re-purposes my 1981 screen print edition of 68 black ink images on white Stonehenge paper for each book's interior pages. The book covers repurpose predominately, assorted etchings, colored screen prints and pastel markings and sometimes handmade paper.  "Unchanging, this… Read More

Birmingham, AL: National Engraving Company, 1960. spiral-bound binder. Engraving. square 4to. spiral-bound binder. unpaginated. A lovely catalogue of engraving samples supplied by this large commercial printer. Features over 200 specimens of various typefaces and illustrations on envelopes, letterhead, business cards, invitations, and other marketing tools. In near fine condition.

San Francisco, California:: Insiya Dhatt,, 2019.. Edition of 5. 8.5 x 8.5". Accordion structure. Eight laser-cut images. Materials: Museum Board, Arches Text Wove. Inkjet printed. Signed and numbered by the artist. Insiya Dhatt: "'Illusions' examines the reality or elusiveness of basic qualities of life. By obscuring desirable qualities of life and placing them opposite optical illusions, 'Illusions' demonstrates the varying internal and external views of one's foundational needs. From a distance, the book can be viewed as visually stimulating yet closer up the picture is more nuanced. "'Illusions' is an accordion book with eight laser-cut optical illusions with a single word opposite each optical illusion. These words and images question the availability of so-called expected qualities of life. In my own life, I created the illusion of strength for my family in my home country while I struggled internally in my life in the West.

Evanston, Illinois:: Mardy Sears,, 2022.. Edition of 8. 101 cyanotypes. Wooden boards.Ethiopian binding with carved walnut covers, cyanotype prints and indigo Kozo on the spine of some signatures. Signed and dated by the artist. Mardy Sears: "In 2020 I was asked to hand bind a Caxton Club publication, Chicago by the Book, 101 publications that shaped the city and its image, that would be put up for auction along with several other Chicago artist bindings. As I am more of an artist than a binder, I decided to make an artist book using the commercially printed book pages. The first question I asked myself in the process is 'What shapes Chicago?' and the answer I gave myself was - the people. I decided to create portraits of 101 Chicagoans to pair with the 101 publications; but how to go about this during a worldwide pandemic? I began at work while the Art Institute of Chicago was shut down and very few people were working in the museum. I wandered the empty galleries looking for those who… Read More