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

Rochester, New York:: Preacher's Biscuits Books,, 2008.. 6.25 x 4.75"; 63 pages. Offset printed. Case bound in white boards with embossed metallic green title on front cover and titles in green on spine. Preacher Biscuit's Books: "Produced in collaboration with masumiEDUCATIONAL, UED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language. It visually creates and defines a wide range of expressions every international English speaker wanted but previously thought indefinable. UED covers words from across the emotional spectrum while simultaneously providing graphically poetic interpretations. It also offers space for hand writing practice and includes mE's International Phonetic Alphabet for rehearsing vocal pronunciation." Rebecca Kish, Center for Book Arts, blog: "UED stands for Uncertain English Dictionary. Shibata's creative vision not only incorporates design and clean and sturdy case bound technique, but the content is crucial in its… Read More

Waitakere Ranges, New Zealand:: Sam Sampson,, 2022.. Edition of 20. 300 x 225 mm; 28 unnumbered pages. Digital Indigo printed on Mohawk archival paper (Ultra White Smooth pages 148gsm and cover 270gsm). Printed by Centurion, Auckland, New Zealand. Die-cut cover. Hand sewn binding with black thread. Hand-bound by Louise James of The Binding Studio in the Waitakere Ranges, West Auckland, New Zealand. Designed by jacindatorrance of Verso Visual Communications, Auckland. Numbered and signed by Sampson. Copies 1-10 housed in a hinged-lid box with magnetic flap, 35mm outer walls with Chelsea Beige 045 binding cloth (100 percent cotton with pigmented coating) with the ((( Sun-O ))) emblem foiled on the front in white. A black ribbon lifts out each edition. The boxes are lined with ColourPlan Bright Red acid-free paper and feature a different printed design inspired by the original Mallarmé poem and my homage. Each design is digital Indigo white ink and the typeface is DTL Elzevir. Sam… Read More

Tempe, Arizona:: Cabbagehead Press,, 2002.. Edition of 25. 16.25" x 13.5", single sheet. Woodcut, letterpress, and polymer relief on handmade paper. John Risseeuw: "The story of Maes Pow explains the twin danger to landmines: unexploded ordnance (UXO). Cambodia is usually considered to be the second-most mined country on the planet, after Afghanistan, and there may be as much UXO as there are mines. Although the UXO that Maes Pow encountered was left behind by the Khmer Rouge, most UXO in Cambodia is the result of American bombing during the Vietnam War.

Cincinnati, Ohio:: Jusith Serling-Sturm:.. One-of-a-Kind. 12.5" H x 10.25"W x 4"D closed, extends to 10"H x 102"W. Textile in scroll structure. Mixed media, including a bullet artist found while walking to work. Rolled and laid in wooden box with title on cover. Box hinged with leather straps. Judith Serling-Sturm: "21:1 is the official statistic of young, unarmed black men to young, unarmed white men shot and killed by police as contrasted with the number of young unarmed white men who suffered that same fate. Many statistics back this up, and much analysis attempts to explain this but 'Unarmed in America' addressed individual lives. This is what 21:1 looks like. "I have sewn these lives onto a muslin shroud amongst explanations, analysis, and the 21st psalm in asemic writing. "There is no shortage of explanations for this fact, and these explanations are frequently embraced by one ideological group or another at the expense of the… Read More

Phillipsburg, New Jersey:: Maryann Riker,, 2014.. Open Edition. 4.5 x 6.25" (closed) flag book. Materials: binders board, paper, acetate. Historical data tipped on pastedowns. Titles and images on front board. Colophon on back board. Paper-covered boards. In paper sleeve with title and image. Signed by the artist. Maryann Riker: "The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century slaves of African descent in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. The term is also applied to the abolitionists, both black and white, free and enslaved, who aided the fugitives. Using vintage photography, slave journals and abolitionist letters, this flag book highlights the secret routes and "conductors" of the underground railroad.

Viroqua, Wisconsin:: Heavy Duty Press,, 2023.. Edition of 18. 28 x 23 cm, 20 pages. All sorts of antique Franklin Gothics printed in four colors with Spiffy the Vandercook on Hahnemuhle Biblio, Ingres, and Bugra (jacket) paper. Bound by hand with a simple pamphlet stitch into a Hahnemuhle Photo Rag cover, giclee printed with photographs documenting the process, tucked into a rigid Bugra jacket. Signed and numbered by the artist. Michael Koppa: "When all my drawers of Franklin Gothic type needed to be cleaned, the mundane but necessary shop maintenance task turned into a book about the process. The result is a 20-page book featuring every last sort from nine California job cases of genuine ATF Franklin Gothic typefaces-maybe not older than the hills, but definitely older than me-in varying stages of wear, arranged according to a variety of strategies only likely to occur when composing individual metal types by hand. "The final product of this very spontaneous and time-crunched… Read More

Massachusetts:: Boston Book Arts Group,, 1996.. Edition of 27. Eight books measuring each 4 x 4" housed in a linen covered box. Several techniques were used depending upon the method each book artist chose. These varied from letterpress printing and xerox transfer to ink-jet, laser, and/or silkscreen printing. A collaborative series of eight artists books created by one poet and eight artists. Each unique book illustrates a different poem by Michele Wong.

Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland:: Coracle,, 2020.. Edition of 200. 36 pages; 17.5 x 15 cm. Casebound picnic paper over boards, with embossed cover image. Seven tipped-in images of the series and a facsimile of the 20 cent euro coin holding an image of the futurist piece. Numbered. Coracle: "A collaboration surrounding Maud Cotter's altered hotwater bottle sculptures, referring in turn to the dynamic of Boccioni's work of the same title." Excerpts: "The 1913 sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space by the Futurist Umberto Boccioni ... borrows from that Hellenistic sculpture of Nike … It is also perhaps in the same vein that the images of split hot water bottles with burgeoning plaster insets run parallel to the products of a sports and shoe company named after the Greek goddess herself. In the manner of such stylistically improbable pairings, initiated by the futurists with their manifesto, why not also these reconstructed hot-water bottles of Maud Cotter becoming… Read More

Grasswood, Saskatchewan, Canada:: Byopia Press,, [2012].. One-of-a-Kind. Paper covered lidded box each 10 x 7 x 7". Signed by the artist on the base of box which is covered in red papers. Each box contains cut and folded Froebel stars made from the pages of Life Nature Library volume "The Universe." Each box pays homage to one volume of the Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation.  Cathryn Miller: "The universe cut and folded into several hundred (that's a guess) Froebel stars and placed in a box. A reinterpretation of the original book's subject matter.  "I have had a lifelong fascination with paper. I enjoy not only making it, but 'playing' with it to create unusual 3-dimensional structures. I consider [paper] to be not just a support material for other processes, but an interesting thing in itself. The sculptural possibilities appear to be limitless."  This series of… Read More

Cedar Falls, Iowa:: Islam Aly,, 2017.. Edition of 30. 3 x 6 x 2"; 15 sections with three folios. Materials: laser-cut mould-made Johannot paper; laser-engraved wooden boards; leather straps. Coptic binding with leather wrapping bands and wooden clasps. Signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Islam Aly: "Unleash records an angel's attempt to leave the book. A journey that starts with words about being confined and restrained, the angel appears and slowly makes a path through these words until succeeding to break the phrases and get out of the book. When the angel disappears from the book, the letters of the broken words start forming a human face. "By using a late Coptic binding with straps and clasps, the book structure echoes its content. One wrap has the angel on the wooden clasp; the other wrap has the human face.

Iowa City, Iowa:: Naughty Dog Press,, 2010.. Edition of 50. 4 x 3"; 14 pages. Double-sided accordion. Inkjet printed on Mohawk cover stock. Marbled paper band closure. Emily Martin: "An accordion book with 5 colorfully dressed figures and a text discussing my clothing choices and how they have changed now that they are no longer being scrutinized daily by others." Text excerpt: "For most of my life I have lived with other people and most of them seemed to have some sort of opinion about the clothes I put on. ... Now in my fifties I live completely alone. For the first time in my memory I go around unsupervised. Since no one else is watching me I am starting to notice some things about my behavior ....

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Red Hydra Press,, 2015.. Edition of 45. 3.5"; 82 pages. Letterpress printed. Bound in cloth over boards. Numbered. Signed by the poet. Colophon: "Designed and letterpress printed by Steve Miller in Scala types on dampened Arches Text Wove paper. The binding design and production supervision is by Anna Embree, goddess of all things bound. Special Thanks to the poet and the artist for their willingness to play. Red Hydra Press: "100, 5-line poems by Tennessee poet Jeff Hardin, each on its own page, … Katie Baldwin has contributed eleven somewhat translucent one-, two-, and three-color line drawings that define each section of the book. This is a hand-sized, hefty volume of thought-provoking words.

London:: Coracle,, 1988.. Edition of 50. 10 x 15"; 32 pages. Letterpress printed on Somerset mould-made paper. Eight computer generated and altered images printed by a paint-jet printer. Half bound in green and brown cloth. Paper title on front board. The portmanteau title – utopia and topiary – is apt for this combination of minimalist poetry and manipulated images.

Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland:: Coracle,, 2015.. 5 x 7"; 24 pages. Printed digitally. Saddle stitch (stapled) bound. Coracle: "Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition at Spare Room 33, Canberra Australia in November and December 2014, containing sections of introduction, the form of the poem and the subject of the poem, together with a list of works included in the display of poetry, poem cards, poem objects, books, booklets, and journals of Simon Cutts and Stuart Mills.