February

Np/np/nd(ca.1996). Limited Edition. Folio (6" x 6"). Limited to 65 copies. The present copy is number 33 signed by the illustrator Jennie R. Freidman and with a signed one-page folded note dated May 24, 1998, to an unnamed recipient about "finally getting this book off" to them. Dar Williams, a music, and song writer began playing the guitar at age nine and wrote her first song two years later. Early in her music career, she opened for Joan Baez, and later sang a duet with her. She recorded her first full album, The Honesty Room, under her own label, Burning Field Music. Colophon: Dar's voice and lyrics float through many cars, home, studio, and soul, it makes my insides burn to have had the chance to work with her. This book was born at a show on Martha's Vineyard at the Wintertide Coffeehouse in February of 1995, and fittingly finished one year later in February of 1996. None folios of arches text make up the body of the book and it is wrapped in Richard de Bas. The type is 14pt. Caslon old style 337 and a 20-pt. mystery font I found in the Harford Art School's type shop. The cover has a key sewn to upper wrap; book is stitched. Illustrated through in color. A very tiny, closed edge tear to front wrap. A very nice copy of this elusive work. The lyrics can be found online, and she can be found singing this title, but it is not recorded by OCLC and not located elsewhere.