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

Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland:: Coracle,, 2017.. Edition of 399. 9.25 x 6.5"; 144 pages. Printed three-colour offset. Typography by Colin Sackett. Casebound with headbands. Coracle: "Syntax is to word order as melody is to note order. Peal explores the analogy of melody and syntax by applying the methods of bell change ringing to rows of words: poetic lines. Each individual poem begins with a line of four to nine nonrepeating words. That line is then permuted according to one of the methods, resulting in anywhere from 12 to 240 unique variations. By convention, the word corresponding to the heaviest working bell is coloured blue (the "blue line") and the word corresponding to the treble or highest-pitched bell is coloured red. The starting lines-all quotations-form the cento that opens the book, where their inflections evoke thematic relationships. Their permutations create distinctive visual patterns as well as frequent semantic surprises. The methods have been chosen with an eye… Read More

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Michelle Ray,, 2012.. Edition of 50. 7.125 x 4.5 x .25"; 16 unnumbered pages. Images and text created with photopolymer plates. Case bound sewn binding. Paper-covered boards with embossed and printed images. In the edition of 50, 1 - 31 printed on handmade paper; 32 - 50 printed on machine made paper. This is a handmade paper copy. Michelle Ray: "Natural History explores our fascination with facsimiles and the relationship between signs and the things they signify. Illustrated with a vanitas-style [a la memento mori, meant as a reminder of the ephemerality of life and the certainty of death] rabbit image as a recurring motif, this book’s brief essay looks at how things such as taxidermy and ornithological prints shape our relationship to the natural world. The viewer experiences a discord between representation and the real and is confronted with the question of which is more appealing.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Michelle Ray,, 2012.. Edition of 50. 7.125 x 4.5 x .25"; 16 unnumbered pages. Images and text created with photopolymer plates. Case bound sewn binding. Paper-covered boards with embossed and printed images. In the edition of 50, 1 - 31 printed on handmade paper; 32 - 50 printed on machine made paper. This is a copy printed on machine made paper. Michelle Ray: "Natural History explores our fascination with facsimiles and the relationship between signs and the things they signify. Illustrated with a vanitas-style [a la memento mori, meant as a reminder of the ephemerality of life and the certainty of death] rabbit image as a recurring motif, this book’s brief essay looks at how things such as taxidermy and ornithological prints shape our relationship to the natural world. The viewer experiences a discord between representation and the real and is confronted with the question of which is more appealing.

Buenos Aires:: Mado Reznik,, 2016.. Editioin of 10. 6 x 8.5"; 20 leaves text, 4 illustration leaves. Encaustic painting. Monocopies. Numbered. Translation into English by Christopher Lovelace. Bound in paper-covered boards with encaustic painting on cover. Numbered. Mado Reznik: "The Warranty of Dreams is a book about dreaming and memory through poetry, etchings, and encaustic painting. All these concepts are translated with words, papers, ink and painting. The book serves as a voices' container and transparent etchings are part of the impossibility of saying all.

Rochester , New York:: Dry Inc ,, 2022.. Edition of 50. 6.25 x 9.25". Type: Kennerley Pro by Lanston Type Company. Paper: Mohawk Via 700# Laid Natural White. Hardback case binding in Japanese Marine Blue cloth. Tipped-on spine label. Custom marbled endpapers by Stephen Pittelkow. Hand bound by Richard Kegler at Wells College Press. Signed and numbered by Richard Kegler. Press Statement: "The digital version of Frederic Goudy's Aries typeface, was released by P22 Type Foundry in 2003-and the result of Richard Kegler's ongoing research into the history of this type and the Aries Press are collected into this book. Co-published by RIT Press, 'The Aries Press of Eden New York' tells the story of a curious chapter in a long history of printing and independent publishing. There are many connections to renowned figures in the art, printing, and typographic worlds of the 1920s. The book is a complete bibliography and brief history of Aries Press. "Spencer Kellogg Jr.,… Read More

Rochester , New York:: P22 Publications,, 2020.. Folio Edition of 20. Book Edition: Slightly oversized Quarto 9.5 × 12.5"; 56 pages. 26 wood type specimens. Printed on 100lb Arjowiggins Utopia 2 Ivory Matte text paper. 82 hand-press runs in six different print shops. Case sewn and hand-bound in Asahi cloth (red or orange). Foil-stamped cover (gold on red or black on orange). Signed and numbered by Richard Kegler. Folio Edition: Same as Book Edition except specimens and descriptions unbound as individual one-sided plates. Laid in a box hand-bound in blue Asahi cloth with gold foil and spine label. Press Statement: "A tour de force of typographic design and a celebration of American printing innovation,' A Specimen of Wood Type' is a hand-bound, hardcover letterpress printed book by Richard Kegler. It features 26 wood type specimens hand-printed between January 2017 and October 2020 using the original wood types referenced to digitize the Hamilton Wood Type Collection… Read More

Kensington + Berkeley, California:: Liminal Press,, 2018.. Eidtion of 10. 10 x 15"; 56 pages. Text, photographic collages, letterpress printing and binding by Camden M. Richards. Monotypes designed and pulled on Rives BFK 250gsm at Studio 1509 by Sibony on a Takach etching press. Photographic collages created by Richards and ink jet printed on Canson Vidalon Vellum 90gsm at Minuteman Press on an Epson Stylus Pro 9600. Text set in Zuzana Licko's Mrs Eaves. Written, designed and letterpress printed by Richards at Liminal Press + Bindery on a Vandercook 4 proofing press. Handmade paper with inclusions by Patti Harden. Bound with a buttonhole stitch. Housed in a custom box with hand painted book cloth by Sibony. Box construction by John DeMerritt. Numbered. Signed by Richards and Sibony Camden Richards: "'Stained' is a collaborative book of word and image, pigment and fiber, documenting the emotional experience-bright lightness, dark depths-and reckoning of motherhood. … Read More

New York:: Benjamin Rinehart,, 2021.. 5 x 5 x 3"rotating ring. Digital prints. Bristol board. Rotating images pose the question about gender - Is she a boy? Is she a girl? Benjamin Rinehart: "After not cutting my son's hair for nearly two years, he is more often called a girl than a boy. Why gender is used by society to validate a toddler's role in this world is vexing. After teaching kids at all ages over the years, I have found that specific and stereotypical gender roles are extremely limiting. Shouldn't it be that each child is allowed to decide for themselves in a natural and evolutionary way about their gender?

Appleton, Wisconsin:: Benjamin Rinehart,, 2023.. Edition of 7. 9" x 9" x .825" (closed), variable (open)l; 5 pages. Medium: archival pigment print & pressure print with laces. materials & printing. Lace cards double-sided and mounted onto museum board. Box constructed out of cover stock with a divider and lid to house the lace cards and laces. Each box with five different colored laces to incorporate designs. Laces can be reused repeatedly. Benjamin Rinehart: "When we started our family in Appleton, WI, it came with the reality that our closest family members were still four hours away. This required us to travel several times each year to Iowa and Indiana to see our families. The lacing cards were just one of many car activities we did on long road trips to pass the time.  "Thankfully we became friends with a wide variety of LGBTQ+ couples in the Fox Valley through a group called 'Valued Families'. This created a support network that was necessary… Read More

Chicago, Illinois:: Jenna Rodriguez,, 2013.. Edition of 28. 2.9 x 5.5" closed, 8.5 x 11" unfolded. Designed and letterpress printed by the artist. Three-color pressure print. Laid in black paper envelope wrapper with slip-and-slot closure. Title in gold foil. Signed and numbered by the artist. Jenna Rodriguez: "Extinct is about the evolution of communicating and how face to face interaction is becoming extinct. The book is a texting conversation I had with my father. He is trying to adjust to technology and he is creating his own abbreviations. It is hilarious because I do not understand him and he gets frustrated. The images are pressure printed and the text is letterpress printed."

Chicago, Illinois:: Jenna Rodriguez,, 2013.. 2.5 x 3"; 64 pages including front and back covers. Perfect bound. Ball chain looped through punched hole in upper left corner. Offset printed. Jenna Rodriguez: "Are you breaking the common courtesy rules of public transportation? Or do you see others breaking the rules? This helpful travel booklet features commuting etiquette as well as tear-out cards that can be distributed to offenders.

Iowa City:: Matt Runkle,, 2015.. Edition of 25. 6 x 9"; 90 pages. Letterpress and laser printed. Non-typographic images drawn and collaged, then reproduced using laser printing or letterpress printing from photopolymer plates. Flat spine binding in full cloth. In white dustjacket with titles and author on spine. Numbered and signed by the artist. Matt Runkle: "'Catholics' is an artist book, a limited-edition memoir that makes use of illustration, collage, and letterpress-printed typography to explore the psychic cathedral built by my Catholic traditionalist upbringing. Beginning with an anti-clerical quip by Tallulah Bankhead, the book takes on a range of subjects including Catholic-Masonic tensions, the fervency of converts, the legacy of the Legion of Decency, and the spiritual significance of revelatory shrouds. In 'Catholics', the sacred and profane, the humorous and tragic, the zine and literary fine-press all end up as strange bedfellows in desperate need of… Read More