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Richmond, Virginia:: VCUarts Bowe House Press,, 2009.. Edition of 30. 12.75 x 19"; 9 broadsides. Letterpress printed. Housed in cloth-covered boards with pocket on back pastedown for sheets. Broadsides: You are Loosed from your Mooring by Catherine MacDonald and Ellen Carlson; Visiting Civil War Battlefields by Melissa Johnson and James Gillette; Waiting Room by Rich Murphey and Emily Smith; Colonial Enterprises by Liz Canfield and Brian Gartside; Tradition of Silence by Anonymous and Celia Fetler; Illustrating the 13 transits of Mercury in the 19th Century by Joshua Poteat and Matt Boteilho; Drummer Boy: One Night Only by Nick Reading and Rachel Maves; Composition by Cynthia Grier and Joanna Landrum; Monument Avenue by Susan Settlemyre Williams and Cody Whitby. Multiple Voices, Multiple Histories is a collaborative project between Richmond poets and graphic designers at VCU's Bowe House Press. Book cover and Introduction Page designed by Jamie Mahoney. Jamie Mahoney:… Read More

Coconut Grove, Florida:: Extra Virgin Press,, 2019.. Edition of 40. 9.5 in x 6.25 in x .5"; 25 pages. Printed on French Paper's Speckletone True White. Pearl Gray Fabriano Murillo covers with an interior orange plastic cover sheath for the book block. Bound with a kettle stitch and multi-quire bindings using waxed linen thread. Printed with a 1949 Vandercook 4 Proof Press using Compressed Gothic Wood Type, polymer plates, and linoleum plates. Signed by Dufresne on the title page. Signed by Virgin on the colophon. Numbered. Twelve flash fiction items by Florida writer John Dufresne with illustrations by Florida artist Tom Virgin. Each vignette pulls the reader into an instance of someone's life, hinting at a fuller story, an ongoing story, sometimes funny, sometimes bewildering, sometimes achingly sad.  Interview The Jitney: "Mr. Dufresne compares the collaborative project to theater. 'As I think of it, the writer/artist partnership is not unlike theater, another… Read More

Boca Raton, Florida:: Extra Virgin Press,, 2008.. Edition of 20 + 5 AP. 6.5” x 9” x .5” ; 16 pages. Lino cuts. Letterpress printed from linoleum plates. Complex quire binding. Cover of laminated paper with Thai Banana on the outside and Japanese Katazone paper on the inside. 6.5" x 9" x .5"; 16 pages. Lino cuts. Letterpress printed. Complex quire binding with tackets. Cover of paper with Thai Banana on the outside and Japanese Katazone paper on the inside. Numbered. Signed by both artists. Tom Virgin: "Conversation" uses a short series of quotations to mirror the conversation from which the book is derived. "This book was born of a profound respect of the printmaking skills of Ms. Kari Snyder. A Florida Individual Artist Grant Winner, Kari's intaglio prints of indigenous plants, birds, reptiles and other wildlife compelled me to ask her to collaborate on a book project. "'Conversation' was letterpress printed from… Read More

Charlottesville:: Virginia Center for the Book,, 2022.. Edition of 30. Prints are 7" by 10" with a vertical orientation. The printmaking methods represented in the collection are as eclectic as the patron saints they portray. Each set of prints is housed in a paper retablo, or small Peruvian-style altar-box. A built-in frame compartment holds all 14 prints. When the retablo stands open, the top-most print is displayed. Closed, the retablo measures 7.125" x 13" x .5". Belly band closure with printed title. Each print signed and numbered by the artist. Virginia Center for the Book: "Blending the sacred and the secular, and drawing inspiration from Mexican ex votos, Peruvian retablos, and European and Near Eastern iconography, member artists at the Virginia Center for the Book have produced a collection of storied art venerating whoever/whatever helped them to cope during the pandemic or other recent difficult time.  "Several take refuge in distraction, both… Read More