Search Results: Authors starting with H from Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Inkswine Press,, 2022.. Edition of 6. 9.5 x 15 x 3" (24 x 40.6 x 7.5 cm) closed extends to 9.5 x 64 x 1 inches (24 x 162.6 x 2.5 cm); 76 pages. 32 multi-color woodcuts, plus relief etchings and vignettes. Hand-printed on rag paper. Letterpress printed text using Cromwell and Metropolis types. Signed and numbered. Dirk Hagner: "'We saw a flood' is about our ignorance and complicity we exhibit in the destruction of this world brought on by human caused climate change. Its underlying verse structure is based on the anonymous 17th-century British verse 'I saw a peacock, with a fiery tail', an example of a nonsense or 'trick' poem part of a rich tradition of verses rooted in Anglo-Saxon riddles. "This work has been a year in the making. It consists of two facing books of 76 total pages, which are to be viewed and read in tandem. The odd pages of the left-hand book show changing groups of faces with the first half of a verse,… Read More

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Inkswine Press,, 2021.. Edition of 6. 29 aquatint etchings, woodcuts, chine collé, plus letterpress and screen printing. 15 x 11.5 inches, (38 x 29.25 cm) on 250 gm deckle edge rag paper, quarter case binding. Signed and numbered. Dirk Hagner: "The Lepidoptera series of 11 original prints roots in eastern and western sensibilities, and mythological notions of male-female attraction. It is realized by using gestural spontaneity and the graphic precision of printmaking. The project started with drawings for the woodcuts of the female figure, celebrated in art since the renaissance, and ink brush paintings for the making of aquatint lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) imagery. Asemic writing, printed from relief etchings, provide rhythmic compositional counterpoints. The addition of wood type letterpress outside the chine collé image area expands the visual to the entire page while the rich flat black screen-printed strips at its boundaries… Read More

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Dirk Hagner,, 2014.. Edition of 35. Triangular shaped book: 5 x 5 7" closed: 5 x 42" extended. Printed on 250 gms 100% rag paper. Bound in paper covered boards with ribbon tie closures. In black lidded box. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dirk Hagner: "This new artist book is a americanized play on one of the most well-known koans of Zen Buddhism. It reads: "When you meet the Buddha on the road, driving a Chevy, kill him!

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Inkswine Press,, 2023.. Edition of 10. The book measures 11 x 6.125 x .75 inches closed (28 x 15.5 x 2 cm), and 11 x 54 x 3 inches when on display (28 x 137 x 7.6 cm). The accordion style book on heavy wove Arches rag paper has 6 panels plus a center 3-page flag book section. There is a colophon page in the back. The typeface used for the letterpress printing is Goudy Oldstyle. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dirk Hagner: "Mark Twain, the great humorist and keen observer of the 'lowest animal', one of the treasures of American literature, is the subject of this artist book. A large original reduction color woodcut portrait of him is featured on its pages. "Of course, Mark Twain was only his nom de plume, his real name was Samuel Longhorne Clemens. A page in the book shows his penned 'SLC' initials with which he often signed his correspondence. "There are so many marvelous quotes by Twain. Three of them are used… Read More

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Inkswine Press,, [2018].. Edition of 15. 13.75 x 5.125" closed, extends to 13.75 x 44". Vertical accordion. Woodcut in 3 colors. Letterpress text on 250 gms rag paper. Bound in paper-covered boards with twine wrap closure. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dirk Hagner: "This a vertical accordion book … features a quote from William Butler Yeats: 'I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly for you tread on my dreams.' "The back of this piece folds into a horizontal triangle that acts like a stand-off when the book is pinned through aligned eyelet holes to a wall - its intended way of display.

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Inkswine Press,, 2020.. Edition of 14. Displayed the book measures 10 x 14 x 6.5 inches (25.4 x 35.5 x 16.5 cm), when closed 14 x 7 x 0.3 inches (35.5 x 18 x 0.75 cm). Screen printed. Numbered. Signed with Hagner stamp. Laid in flat case. Dirk Hagner: "This book is using a fold-up that is found commonly used in a wine case and which serves as a bottle separator. The book covers are foldable so that they become the display stand of the book. Five interlocking cut shapes become a dimensional display, made from duplex board, each panel carrying a line from Charles Bukowski's poem 'Spring Swan'."

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Inkswine Press,, 2020.. Edition of 8. 15 x 11.5" (38 x 29.25 cm); 20 pages. Collagraphs. Chine collé. Letterpress printed with debossed running text. Screen printing. Bound in paper over boards with leather spine. Front cover with printed titles and black glyph illustration. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dirk Hagner: "This large format case-bound book reflects on COVID-19 and is based on a poem by Emily Dickinson which she wrote in 1880, 'Apparently with no surprise'. "This time around the 'blonde assassin' on stage is played by the red-crested corona virus upstart. The sun proceeds but is unmoved. Life is often cruel and death can be random and unexpected, with God paring her fingernails while it all happens. "The book's pages follow the 8 lines of the poem, cutting up the words in several ways, and reassembling the pieces with collagraphs and chine collé, employing debossed running text… Read More

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Inkswine Press,, 2020.. Edition of 14. 18 x 4.5 inches when folded (44.7 x 11.5 2.5cm); displays to 18 inches tall x 58.5 inches long (44.7 x 148.5 cm). Accordion structure. Gold paper chine collé, screen printing, and letterpress. Screen printed on gold Mulberry paper and rag. Signed and numbered by the artist. The work features a poem by Frank Bolles - "The crow". Bolles (b?lz) (1856-1894) was an American essayist and poet.  Dirk Hagner: "The book's title is given in three languages, all meaning the same thing. 'Tripod' in English, 'Dreifuss' in German, and 'SanZuWu' in Chinese. "The interest in this piece arises from mixing far Eastern mythology with Western poetic sentiment, and avoiding the Western notion of associating crows with bad tidings. The project combines a traditional dividing screen look with contemporary typography. "In Chinese mythology and culture, the three-legged… Read More

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

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Inkswine Press,, 2021.. Edition of 10. 13.75 x 11.25 x .675 inches (35 x 29 x 1.8 cm); 12 pages pages including front and end matters on heavy 480 gm rag paper. Multi-color woodblock prints and letterpress type. Quarter-bound in black Kraftex leather over blue hand-made paper covered boards, with foil title. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dirk Hagner: "Brecht's 'The Mask of Evil' reveals beautifully the problem of being angry and hateful in this world: it's straining and a lot of effort - exactly what it looks and sounds like. Here it is interpreted with anxious typography, juxtaposed with calm organic wood textures.

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Dirk Hagner,, [n.d.].. Edition of 25. 5.75 x 3.75 closed, extends to 24.5 x 15.5". Letterpress printed on 100% cotton paper. Bound in paper-covered boards. Laid in black storage box with title printed in white and handwritten edition number on lid. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dirk Hagner: "Wordplay on the Buddhist notion that there is no 'there' - only a 'here.' Whenever one gets 'there' one is actually 'here.' Tomatoes, potatoes ..., either, neither ..."

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Inkswine Press,, 2021.. Edition of 5 variants. 14.5 x 11 x 0.5 inches, (37 x 28 x 1.25 cm); 13 pages. Graphite frottages on vellum over foil titles on 140lbs rag paper. Covers with quarter Kraft-tex leather binding. Title label on front board. Signed and numbered. Dirk Hagner: "A series of 11 exquisite graphite rubbings of breads from around the world. All pieces are one-of-kind images, gathered in a hand-made book binding. This project combines the oldest cultural staple of human kind, bread, with the oldest way of printmaking, rubbings, or as printmakers call it, frottage*."  Using printmaking and rubbings, Hagner presents a lovely visual discourse of bread of the world. It is a reminder of how much bread and the partaking of it together is so much apart of the many cultures of our world. This simple act of sharing bread has a sense of friendliness and comfortable interaction whether it is a bagel, a baguette, or a bun.

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Inkswine Press,, [2018].. Edition of 10. 6 x 8 x .5" with aluminum spiral binding on all sides. Black covers. Rusted steel plate on front cover. Laid in lidded black box 8.75 x 10.75" with titles in white lettering. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dirk Hagner: "A guide for imbecilic leaders unencumbered by the thought process. Coal-black covers with rusted steel cover plate, and a stable genius aluminum spiral binding. Simple no-elite design, type in ALL CAPS. ... Perfect for small hands and small minds. Comes in a dedicated box. Sorry - no free hats."

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Dirk Hagner,, [n.d.].. Edition of 30. 11.25 x 7.25" closed, extends to 11.75 x 30". Accordion structure with four folds. Letterpress printed on 100% cotton paper. Black paper-covered boards with silver titling and multicolored thread tie closure. Housed in black lidded box with title in white and hand written edition number on lid. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dirk Hagner: "The album uses a quote from Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska employing texting as a means to allow use of larger type in the letterpress process than would be normally possible. 'All is mine and nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.' Much like a jpeg photograph the words compress when texted to fewer letters; however, when read, it 'resurrects' to the full wording. It allowed the effective use of some pied wood type.

Glenview, Illinois:: Karen Hanmer,, 2003.. Open Edition. 3.5 x 2.5 x .5". Designed as a deck of cards in card case with 52 playing cards. Inspired by decks of playing cards portraying villains and heroes from Operation Iraqi Freedom. This deck pictures 52 different Sports Utility Vehicles.

Glenview, Illinois:: Karen Hanmer,, 2010.. Edition of 125. 6.5 x 4.375”; 40 pages. Inkjet printed on Ruscombe Mill pale wove handmade paper. Presented in an early 19th-century style publisher’s binding with handmade paper wrapper. Enclosure features images of the first edition of Poe’s Tamerlane and Other Poems. Laid in a four- flap custom archival wrap with illustrated title label on front. Velcro closure. Edition of 125: 1-25 deluxe; 26-75 standard. This is the standard presented in a paper wrapper. Construction based on the first edition of Tamerlane. Karen Hanmer, prospectus: "A criminal undone by his own bravado. A national hero who has no substance. A prosperous people believing they are immune to the tragedies befalling their neighbors. A man leaving for a hike in the hills and coming back with an unbelievable story. A large swath of society falling for a hoax. "Current events mirror tales written by Edgar Allan Poe over one hundred and fifty years… Read More

Glenview, Illinois:: Karen Hanmer,, 2011.. Edition of 30. 5.5 x 8 x .5"; 16 pages. Pigment inkjet prints. Gold-stamped vellum spine. Drum leaf binding. Cover wrappers vary. Laid in four flap phase box with velcro closure. Prospectus: "The painting that hung over the bookmaker's childhood sofa; photographed, digitally printed actual size, deconstructed, and bound using the drum leaf structure. When this view of the island of Capri overlooking the Gulf of Naples is divided into eight equal portions, each portion still reads as a horizon. A fragmented walk through the landscape may also function as metaphor for memory, and the unanswered questions that elude memory."  Vera Sekic, Chicago painter and curator: "With her latest project, Karen Hanmer has created an archetype of all the family oil paintings that hung above the couches of our childhood. Not a drop of irony stains the languid shorelines and gauzy, cloud-flecked skies that fill the pages of this inviting book.… Read More

Glenview, Illinois:: Karen Hanmer,, 2011.. Edition of 20. 7.5 x 4.75 x 1.75” box containing plaquettes and pamphlet. Seven 7.5 x 4.75" plaquettes: binders’ board covered with inkjet-printed cotton backed with Japanese tissue. Pamphlet: 7.5 x 4.5"; 4 pages; text includes colophon, artist's statement, images of five books from The Athenaeum’s collection and image credits; inkjet printed on Arches text paper. Clamshell box: bookcloth over binders’ board, inkjet-printed label. Hanmer created new cover designs by combining elements from each of the five late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century publishers’ bindings The Athenaeum made available online to artists in the fall of 2011. Karen Hanmer: "Part decorative arts and part cabinet of curiosities, the five bindings represent a cross section of styles, including Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, and Egyptian Revival.The new cover designs, like those they take as their starting point, reflect late… Read More

Glenview, Illinois:: Karen Hanmer,, 2009.. Edition of 100. 4 x 7"; 32 pages. Laser prints on translucent paper. Pamphlet in case binding. Covered with red velvet finish book cloth. Hot stamped title. Karen Hanmer: "Couples from romance novel covers traced onto translucent paper layer together, and multiple new combinations emerge."  Barbara Tetenbaum, Triangular Press: "Karen Hanmer exploits both materials (transparent paper) and format (the codex) to create her orgy of embracing figures, all traced from the covers of romance novels. It thrills me to think of the hot action these couples get being so closely bound between the book's red covers!

Glenview, Illinois:: Karen Hanmer,, 2006.. Edition of 100. 3.25 x 7.5" Laser print on polyester film, computer punch card. Another in Hanmer's series of works on computer history in the United States. This work has a National Archives image of 1970s era computer room overlaid on an IBM punch card.