Search Results: Titles starting with O from Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC

[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".

California:: Cheri Gaulke.. Edition of 100. A pouch made of multi-colored Balinese sarongs contains an artists' book whose design is inspired by traditional palm-leaf books. Indonesian teak covers are held together by a central red cord and batiked wooden beads. Digitally printed on an Epson Stylus Photo 2200 with archival inks and Epson watercolor paper in an edition of 100. Each pouch is unique as each has its own batik design and cloth. Each book is signed and numbered. A true story. One lesbian trying to get pregnant; one gay man dying of AIDS. Life; death. The struggle to make life; the struggle to hold on to life. The ironies compound and cancel each other, until what is left are the dignity of struggle and sanctity of possibility. "Mark began dying of AIDS long before I began trying to conceive, both of us racing against the inevitability of time" begins the text, which tells the story of a journey between birth and death and of a magical trip to Bali. The imagery… Read More

Portland, Oregon:: Triangular Press & Zornado Productions,, 2011.. Limited edition [limitation unstated]. 5.25 x 7.5" lightweight cardstock enclosure containing a DVD and (for the first 300) a folded letterpress print (8.5 x 10.75") on composition paper, showing a single design element used in the movie. DVD contents: Old-Time Film (2 min, 58 sec) and Behind-the-Scenes (2 min, 48 sec). Animated, directed, and printed by Barbara Tetenbaum and Marilyn Zornado. Container blurb: "This letterpress-printed animation short was printed entirely from antique news cuts, printer's ornaments, hand-set type and bell wire on a Vandercook SP-15 at Triangular Press. The pages were scanned, arranged and synced to the music at Zornado Productions." www.marilynz.com: "Hand-set type, printer's ornaments, and antique engravings come to life in this animated short created entirely through letterpress printing. Includes behind-the-scenes showing letterpress animation techniques… Read More

Philadelphia, PA:: Shandy Press,, 2004.. Edition of 75. 8.25 x 6" closed. The structure is a modified accordion, with an extra flap attached at the top, adding to the sense of unfolding layers of stamps before one gets to the text. The poem can be read by turning the pages as in a codex structure, but as an accordion, the parts also exist horizontally as in a time line, echoing an underlying movement of the poem. The book was conceived, designed, bound, and the text letterpress printed on a Vandercook Proving Press by Susan Viguers. The type is Walbaum and the paper Dulcet. The images are offset printed by Lori Spencer on a Heideberg KOS in the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA. The black leatherette cover, size and shape suggest a stamp book. The book does have 23 pages of stamps from around the world from the 1940s to the 1960s collected in Mexico by Guillermo Agudelo. One can "read" the pages: the companionship of the pope and Grace… Read More

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Symposium Press,, 1984.. Edition of 275. 8 x 12.5"; 64 pages including free end pages. Produced at the Institute for the Book Arts in the Graduate School of Library Service at the University of Alabama and published jointly with the English Department. Designed by Gabriel Rummonds. Printed under Rummonds direction by Sue Harris, Kathryn Miller, Cary Wilkins, and Linda Samson-Talleur. Text handset in monotype Van Dijck and printed on Mohawk Superfine. Bound in green paper wrappers with title printed on front cover. A Fine copy. On Equal Terms" contains poems by the participants in The Eleventh Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature: What Is a Poet? at the University of Alabama, October 18-20, 1984. "On Equal Terms" presents two previously unpublished poems by each of the five poets.  The introduction is by Hank Lazer, director of the symposium. Lazer is a poet and essayist and teaches at the University of Alabama. Charles Bernstein… Read More

Milwaukee, Wisconsin:: redthreadletterpress,, 2019.. Edition of 30. 5 x 4.5" closed. Fishbone fold structure. Relief and letterpress printing on Rives Heavyweight paper. Signed and numbered by the artist. . redthreadletterpress: "This bookwork uses a fishbone fold structure from 'The Art of the Fold' by Hedi Kyle & Ulla Warchol. It is a response to my previous artist's book titled 'In the event of Moon Disaster' and shows the perspective of moon landing deniers."

Penland :: Clifton Meador,, 2017.. Edition of 20. Three 28-page booklets, 8 by 10 inches. Printed digitally and by letterpress from photopolymer plates and woodtype. In a paper slipcase. Signed and numbered by the artist. Clifton Meador: "Each booklet contains a different iteration of the same set of images and text: the images are photographs of reflections on the surface of the Emajogi river in Tartu, Estonia, while the texts are transformations of poems by Du Fu, the great Tang Dynasty poet (712 - 770). I selected poems that mentioned rivers, and then created very bad translations of these poems by using automated, literal translation software. The resulting word salads were transformed into two new poems: for the first booklet, by alphabetized by first work of each line and for the second booklet, the text was produced by resorting the poem by word length. The third booklet presents the original Du Fu poems, in characters.  "Printing images always involves translation-from a… Read More

Washington DC:: Ch'An Press,, 1995.. Edition of 10. Two books housed in 9 x 9.25" black stiff-paper wrap with four flaps on top side that fold into each other like petals for closing. First book: 6 x 5.75"; 20 leaves; photo-etchings on melaleuca bark, poems on bamboo leaf. Bound with screw mechanism in middle of pages. Second book: 6.5 x 7.25"; 24 leaves. Photo-etchings on handmade paper. Irene Chan: "Dual books of photoetchings of nature with Taoist poems. One has predetermined order, the other has unspecified order.

Berkeley, California:: Elysian Editions,, 2018.. Edition of 10. 6 x 4.5"; 84 pages. Digital printing. Photography and text by Margaretta K. Mitchell. Binding by Virginia Phelps. Colors available for purse binding: black, gold, or silver. Printing by Irene Imfeld. Margaretta K. Mitchell: "The purse binding was created and made by Virginia Phelps, a book artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. A chance meeting between Virginia and Margaretta Mitchell at the Antiquarian Book Festival was the beginning of a creative collaboration. When Virginia mentioned having made a book in the form of a loaf of bread, Margaretta immediately replied that she wanted to make a book of images in a purse-like form. Fast forward ... the results are 'On the Avenue'. "'On the Avenue' is a little book that lifts the spirits, bringing a smile to the lover of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on a beautiful spring day, Easter Sunday 2006. Everyone is out on the street and in Central Park… Read More

St. Paul, Minnesota:: Bluestem Cottage Press,, 2021.. Edition of 12. Gatefold piece with 4 interior panels. Paper is Rives BFK. Techniques include screen print, drawdowns, and pochoir. Typography is Trebuchet. In paper slipcase with title. Signed and numbered by Baugnet. Julie Baugnet, introduction: "As in my first book, 'When the World was Asked to Shelter', I am trying to make sense out of these chaotic times. This writing is taken from statements in my sketch journals. As we go into our third year, this virus has left the world exhausted and exasperated." Each month beginning March 2021 and ending February 2022 has brief statements from Baugnet that capturres the world's landscape as the virus continues.  "March 2021 Vaccine rollout/ / Hope is contagious" .... November Out of the blue - Omicron / Yikes!" ...

San Francisco, California:: San Francisco Center for the Book,, 2010.. Edition of 100. 4.125 x 4"; 30 pages. Two colors with fold-out Japanese paper insert. Story, illustrations, and book design by Jennifer Hennesy. The book production was coordinated by Pam Deluco with printing and binding assistance of SFCB volunteers. Hardcover book with foil printing in two color bookcloth options, blue or red with title embossed on cover. San Francisco Center for the Book: "This Small Plates book offers a political perspective of unity and resilience of spirit. The book draws relationships between ancient metaphors for cultural connection (nets/labyrinths), traditional book design, and experimental typography. This project was inspired by Howard Zinn's Artists in Times of War, and the work of bay area artists Allison Smith & Susan O'Malley."  Jennifer Hennesy is a graphic artist living in San Francisco. She is a graduate of the California College of Arts.

San Antonio de Arredondo, Córdoba, Argentina:: Alex Appella,, 2018.. Open Edition. 8 x 10"; 26 pages. Bilingual text (Spanish - English). Bound in illustrated wraps with hand sewn binding. Barbi Couto, journalist and editor in Argentina : "'One Day · One Day' is a book about death and also about hope. The bilingual collages document/portray the raw, loving, brutal, sensitive, intense story of the last day of Alex's grandfather's life, which he photographed without knowing it, and the last days of her mother's life, as she succumbed to Leukemia. Trying to describe the book in its poetic and visual depth may be as difficult as trying to describe the feelings and emotions surrounding the departure-farewell of a loved one. "The first person narrative Alex uses to tell her story is a visual, bilingual, layered voice of her own creation that she has been building book by book in recent years. Her way of combining Spanish and English simultaneously,… Read More

Boone, North Carolina:: Clifton Meador,, 2019.. Edition of 200. 8.5 x 11"; 62 pages. Florescent four-color offset lithography. Post-bound book with die-cut paper wrapper. Clifton Meador: "On February 27, 1957, Mao Zedong gave a speech titled 'On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People.' In this speech, he quoted a poem: 'Let a hundred flowers bloom / Let a hundred schools of thought contend.' His speech invited citizens to voice their opinions and criticisms of the Communist Party.  "It was followed in the summer of 1957 with the Anti-Rightist movement, where between 300,000 and 550,000 individuals were identified as Rightists - most of whom were intellectuals, academics, writers and artists. Mao later said the Hundred Flowers movement had enticed the snakes out of their lairs. The majority of those accused of being Rightists were publicly discredited and lost their jobs or worse. "Historians argue whether Mao was sincere in his… Read More

San Francisco, California:: San Francisco Center for the Book,, 2013.. Trade edition of 50. 66 x 8.5"; 4 double sided cards. Includes 3-D glasses. Laid in black wrapper with custom cutout base for glasses. Signed and numbered by the artist. The trade edition deals only with a single sense - sight.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:: Shandy Press,, 2015.. Edition of 25. 6 x 8"; 62 pages. Letterpress printed, using polymer plates, on a Vandercook Proofing Press. Typeface is Hoefler. Text paper is Schiller. Paper for prints is Zerkall. Tip-ins. Bound in unbleached abaca handmade by Nicole Donnelly. Signed and numbered by the artist. Susan Viguers: "'The Opossum' is a specimen book in various ways. Most obviously, it is about a particular animal, the Virginia opossum. Conceived in the tradition of the type specimen book, it is a compendium of voices/observations about the opossum. The preface to the book consists of a statement by John D. Godman in 1831: 'Perhaps nothing can more clearly demonstrate the impatience of the human mind, and the reluctance with which men yield to the hard necessity of carefully observing the operations of nature, than the history of this animal.' The primary text, my own story of encounters with the opossum, is surrounded by passages from… Read More

Reno, Nevada:: Black Rock Press,, 2022.. Edition of 50. 5.1875 x 6.5 x 2.375"; 968 pages. Housed in a handmade birch-ply box with accompanying digital print of opossum photo and “How to use this book” pamphlet. Black Rock Press: "Opossum.png is a book and website created by artist Jeff Thompson that makes physical a single, low-resolution image. In early 1995, a group of strangers assembled online to develop what would become the PNG file format. One of the first images to be encoded in this new format was a pixelated photograph of an opossum, taken by programmer and PNG contributor Glenn Randers-Pehrson. The entire contents of this photograph are presented in a 968-page book, listed in the various formats required to be read by a computer. It also includes a wooden storage case and a printed copy of Randers-Pehrson's photograph. A website accompanies the project, containing a full set of annotations for the file, delving into the technical workings of the PNG format and the… Read More

New York:: Women's Studio Workshop,, 2010.. Edition of 70. 10.25 x 8"; 24 pages. Letterpress printed with screenprinted images. Text printed in Future on Rives heavyweight paper. Viewable in 3D with enclosed anaglyph glasses. Bound with aluminum clovers and black cloth spine. Heidi Neilson: "Orbital Debris Simulator describes the phenomena of ‘space junk’ in the earth’s orbit, showing points of interest between the moon and the earth such as geosynchronous orbit, medium earth orbit, and the International Space Station. Images of space toys – spaceships and action figures from various science fiction ‘universes’ as well as replicas of actual spacecraft – are used as stand-ins for the orbital debris itself."  Introduction: "Orbital debris consists of defunct objects in earth's orbit created by people in the process of space exploration, such as used rocket stages, defunct satellites, explosion and collision fragments, coolant… Read More

Iowa City, Iowa:: Islam Aly,, 2014.. Edition of 30. 2.6 x 2.6 x 3"; 30 sections with three folios. Mould-made Johannot paper. Colored and laser-engraved edges. Bound in laser-etched plexi glass. Two needle Coptic sewing and Coptic end bands with linen thread. Presented in a folding box with gilded wooden cube and magnetic closure. Box dimensions closed: 3.25 x 3.25 x 4". Signed by the artist. Islam Aly: "This book is inspired by The Kaaba, a cuboid building at the center of Islam's most sacred mosque, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is the most sacred point within this most sacred mosque, making it the most sacred location in Islam. Wherever they are in the world, Muslims are expected to face the Kaaba when performing prayers. In addition one of the Five Pillars of Islam, every Muslim is required to perform the hajj pilgrimage at least once in his or her lifetime, if one is able. Multiple parts of the hajj require pilgrims to make circumambulation seven times around the Kaaba. A tiny… Read More

Orlando, Florida:: Rachel Simmons ,, 2022.. Edition of 10. 6” tall x 6.5” wide x 1” deep closed; 5.75” tall x 16.5” wide x 14” open. Tunnel book. Digital printing and letterpress on paper and board.Hard cover with magnetic wrapper box. Includes information page with colophon slipped behind picture on front pastedown. Signed and numbered by the artist Rachel Simmons: "This tunnel book is named after the MV Lyubov Orlova, a former Russian icebreaker—now a ghost ship—that took me safely to the Antarctic Peninsula in 2008 and again in 2009. I created the scene by making a collage of elements from multiple photographs taken at various times and locations. Like a colorized postcard, this abstraction of a real experience depicts passengers from the Orlova on a zodiac tour of an iceberg bay. In the foreground, one of my cabin mates, a Tasmanian prison guard on holiday, is taking photographs of the landscape. Towards the back of the scene, the Orlova waits… Read More

Monterey, Kentucky:: Larkspur Press,, 2009.. Edition of 26. Broadsides: 14 x 11"; 4 single sheets. Photos: 20 x 16"; 8 single giclée prints. Type set by hand in Cloister Lightface. Printed with a hand fed C&P on Gampi Torinoko paper made in Japan. Giclée prints produced by James Baker Hall. Case (20.75 x 17 x 1.25") covered in Japanese bookbinding cloth and Gampi Torinoko paper by Gabrielle Fox. Designed with interior cloth covered board to sit on top of the prints. Interior board provides housing for the broadsides. White gloves attached to interior board for handling prints and images. The portfolio of four broadsides and eight photographs by Hall were published in honor of the exhibition "Photo/Synthesis: James Baker Hall" at 21C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky open from September 2008 - April 2009. Photo/Synthesis, 21C Museum, 2009: "21c Museum is proud to present Photo/Synthesis: James Baker Hall, the first survey of photographic work by James… Read More