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

Charlottesville, Virginia:: Virginia Arts of the Book Center,, 2008.. Edition of 38. 6.75 x 10"; 64 unnumbered pages. handbound artist’s book, purple cloth, three hand-sewn signatures. VABC collaborative bound-book project, drawing from the cultural legacy Frankenstein.The book features various VABC artists : Kristin Adolfson, Josef Beery, Bonnie Bernstein, Pierre Blondel, Patrick Costello, Dean Dass, Stacey Evans, Barbara Heritage, Angie Hogan, Sarah Knorr, Kevin McFadden, Lindsey Mears, Catherine Moore, Garrett Queen, Frank Riccio, Joan Schatzman, Jesse Wells. Binders: Addeane Caelleigh, Lindsey Mears, Stacey Evans. "'F', a portfolio of prints by the artists of the Virginia Arts of the Book Center, Charlottesville, 2008. All prints were inspired by the Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, accomplished in various media including letterpress, block printing, and etching. For inquiries contact Kevin McFadden."--Virginia Arts of the Book Center Website, 2010./… Read More

[Boca Raton, Florida]:: Jaffe Center for the Book Arts,, 2015.. Edition of 10 variants. 7.25 x 3.5"; 12 pages. Flutter book. Letterpress printed. Colophon with a map of Florida laser-printed. Cover and pages incorporate letterpress printing on a Vandercook 4 proof press using wood type, metal and collagraph plates. Blind printing of an area map. Printed on Arches 88 paper. Plant inclusion endpapers. Laid in handmade paper wrapper with slit-and-slot closure. Signed and numbered by the artists. Statement: "During Stephanie Wolff's residency at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts, she and Dorothy Krause, the first resident artist, collaborated on this brief ode to Florida. A variety of Pigment prints of vintage documents, maps, photographs and botanicals were transferred onto the pages of this edition of 10 variable copies.

Aurora, New York / Rochester, New York:: Dry Inc / Wells College Press,, 2022.. Edition of 50. 6.5" x 6.5"; 40 pages. Letterpress and pigment prints. Photographs printed in black and grey pigment with an Epson Stylus Photo R2880 on 196g Hahnemühle Photo Rag Duo. Additional page paper is Hahnemühle 180g cotton. Metal type specimens are printed on tipped-in Kozuke White paper. The specimen header type is the same hand-set metal Spiral type used by Victor Hammer at Wells College, Aurora, NY. The running text is set in digital Emerson by Jerry Kelly. Additional specimens and running text are printed from photopolymer plates produced at Boxcar Press, Syracuse, NY. Marbled endpapers were made by Susan Doran specifically for this book. Case bound in rust colored Asahi cloth with inset "VH" title label. Design, printing, and binding by Richard Kegler. Signed and numbered by Kegler. Foreword by Dan Reynolds. Press statement: "The finest examples of any of Victor… Read More

Rosendale, New York:: Women's Studio Workshop,, 2011.. Edition of 50. 8 x 11"; 53 pages. Digitally cut. Letterpress, silkscreen, and archivally inkjet printed. Typeface: Adobe Caslon Pro, Gill Sans. Printed on Mohawk Superfine. Hardbound book with drum leaf binding, cloth spine. Title stamped on front board. WSW: "Oral testimonies, maps, and excerpts from personal accounts, from and about occupied Palestine, are the subject of this book. Maps and testimonies were collected from various Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights organizations and governmental agencies with additional writings and drawings by the artist."  WSW, blog: "Her book, Facts on the Ground, talks about Palestine and the plight of the Palestinian people. It is an important piece that presents information rarely, if ever, available to most westerners. Toby is another fine letterpress printer.

[Madison, Wisconsin]:: ORCS,, 2017.. Edition of 300. 6 x 9"; 84 pages. Softcover. Screen printed dust jacket. Signed and numbered by the artist. Christopher Maddox: "Fake Art! is a series of statistical and poetic text analyses. Each piece imposes audacious task-reassignments and other structural manipulations to shift tone and meaning of the words broadcast by contemporary political figures. Book #1 focuses on interviews given by Donald Trump with the Associated Press and Time magazine in 2017. The new iteration may appear elevated, degraded, or a combination of these that can both satisfy and disturb the reader. The reader's experience will depend on perspective and attitude - on the sum of one's encounters with the world, and his or her confirmation bias.  "The texts presented in staggered, narrative poetic form within are not redacted. Each such page presents a single transcribed response in its entirety as spoken by President Trump. Typographic formatting has been… Read More

Monterey, Kentucky:: Larkspur Press,, 2008.. Edition of 45. 5.5 x 8.5"; 108 pages. Handset in Cloister Lightface and Centaur types. Printed on a hand-fed C & P. Handbound. Printed on Somerset Book paper. Handbound by Carolyn Whitesel in her own decorated papers over board. In cream color illustrated dust jacket. Design, composition, printing, and binding by Leslie Shane, Carolyn Whitesel, and Gray Zeitz. Signed by artist and poet. Numbered. Poems by Michael Moran accompanied with drawings by Molly Moran. Larkspur Press: "Michael Moran practices psychiatry and lives on a small farm near Frankfort, Kentucky, with his wife Vivian. Molly Moran is a poet and metal sculptor who left Kentucky for work in a Minnesota foundry.

Emeryville, CA:: Havilah Press,, 2002.. Edition of 150. 5 7/8 x 8 7/8" 56 pp. This book was printed on Zerkall Book using a Vandercook and photopolymer plates. It is hand bound in cream colored linen with blue Fabriano Roma paper over boards. Every effort was make to preserve the integrity of Alice's letter from the appearance of the type and illustrations to the cover paper. The book includes eight figures in the foreward and a fold out panorama of Yosemite Valley. The author was 27 in 1871 when she traveled from NY to CA to tour Yosemite Valley. She entrusted her brother with a letter to her mother describing the trip. The original manuscript was printed by jobbers Horton & Leonard for private distribution and apologized to the author for publishing the letter without her knowledge or permission. Very few copies of the original pamphlet survived.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Southern Pest Prints,, 2014.. Edition of 95. 4 x 6.5"; 6 panels. Double-sided accordion. Imagery originally drawn in ink then letterpress printed using photopolymer. Enhanced with lightly brushing charred wood, ink and water. Housed in pocket enclosure of handmade paper from cotton bedsheets. Numbered. Sara White: "A Family Attic was created in honor of a house that caught fire in my neighborhood in Alabama in 2014. Its text is an erasure poem extracted from a blurb about the event in the Tuscaloosa News. Imagery of items left at the scene were drawn from memory in ink.

North Bay, Canada:: Transformer Press,, 1994.. Edition of 100. 8.5 x 5.5" 12 pages. Text and family photos are photocopied on Hemp/cereal straw paper with pink Kuratani end papers and pink handmade cotton paper covers with plastic comb binding. Photos of three generations of good little girsl from the artist's family are paired with other women's stories about being good or their parents' expectations of goodness. Lise Melhorn-Boe: "I had decided to explore the socialization of little girls and so wrote a questionnaire asking about being a good girl, or not, and sent it out to the women on my list - this wasn't the first questionnaire. So the stories come from a number of women but I chose to use photos of girls in my own family.  I remembered how we used to get black and white photos in little booklets with the plastic "coils" so that's why I bound it that way.

Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, Ohio :: Toby Millman,, 2019.. Edition of 15. 4.25 x 5.5"; 72 pages. Letterpress and inkjet printing. Mounted and hinged print ephemera. Printed in two versions, on Mohawk Superfine Cover and Neenah Howard Linen, each with 13 ephemeral objects. Hard cover, drum-leaf bound. Bound in red book cloth with title stamped on front cover. Produced at the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio in July and August of 2019. Signed and numbered by the artist. Toby Millman: "'Family Business' … began from my father's accumulated stash of business cards related to the now defunct import/export electronics company started by my grandfather, Irving Kryss, and his brother, Josef, in the early 1970s. The business once had offices in Miami, Chicago, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tokyo, Colón and Caracas and the photographs and ephemera accumulated over the years tells a story of family, immigration and capitalism and the struggle to earn a living on one's own… Read More

Iowa City, Iowa:: Naughty Dog Press,, 2003.. Edition of 100. 5.5 x 8.5" six page pamphlet on Mohawk superfine paper. Attached cover of Emerald Canford paper. Archival inkjet printed. Contains a colorful pop-up presenting the playing board. A game for all ages since everyone has a family of some kind. Subtitled "Lose just by playing.

Cedar Falls, Iowa:: Islam Aly,, 2017.. Edition of 40. One book, 5 x 8 x 1.75", with ten sections of four folios, plus 5 miniature books attached by leather wrappings, each 1.5 x 1.5 x 0.75", with five sections of three folios. Materials: laser-cut mold-made Johannot paper; laser-engraved wooden boards. Coptic binding with leather wrappings connected to five small books. Signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Islam Aly: "Fantastic Fauna is a bilingual book in English and Arabic, based on the tradition of having animal characteristics as caricatures of humans. The book was inspired from Ibn Al Mqufas's Kalila and Dimna, a ninth-century collection of animal fables, which came to Persia from India. Similar to George Orwell's political allegory Animal Farm, the stories are about people and politics. The animal characters were used to represent social inequality and oppression. "Fantastic Fauna shows animal images from medieval Islamic artwork that depict imaginary… Read More

Everett, Washington:: John R. Hastings,, 2011.. One-of-a-Kind. 5.25 x 8.25 x 1.25"; 4 pages. Altered book. All pages after the original title page have been glued to form one block. 1 x 2" shadow box with armless doll at bottom right of block. Poem by Hastings printed on page with shadow box opening. Colophon tipped on back pastedown of original book, a reprint of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. With original dust jacket. John Hastings, colophon: "My sister and her husband are in the process of cleaning out their family home in preparation to sell it. One day she came across one of her old ceramic dolls. Unfortunately, its arms had long since disappeared. The next time we visited, she handed me the doll and said, with a devilish grin, 'Here, I bet you can't use this in one of your artist books.' As it turned out, she was partly right because the doll was too large to fit into the altered book I had in mind. However, after observing the doll sitting on my desk… Read More

Santa Lucia ai Monti, Verona:: Alessandro Zanella,, 2010.. Edition of 30. 7.25 x 11" Composed in Californian typeface. Printed letterpress on Hahnemuhle paper. Printing by Alessandro Zanella. Images by Peiera Luisolo. Text in Italian. Illustrated with linoleum prints by Piera Luisolo. In light weight black paper slipcase. Numbered. Signed by Luisolo. Notes from Favole in Versi: "Giacomo Leopardi was born in Recanati on 29 June 1798, the eldest of 10 children of Count Mondaldo and Adelaide of the Antici marquises. In 1908 he wrote his first poem - the sonnet: 'La morte di ettore' - and other compositions in prose and verse. Between 1809 and 1812 he wrote what are defined as childhood poems or puerile critti. The childish writings are practically the preparation for his creative production, the one to which Giacomo Leopardi owes his fame. Among them are, among other things, some fables, which were widely published after his death. The fairy tale was a typically eighteenth-century… Read More

New York:: Evelyn Eller,, 2018.. One-of-a-Kind. 9 x 6 x 1.5" hinged enameled wooden box with one opening. Mixed media collage with handmade and acid free papers, xerox. Signed by the artist. Kate O'Brien, Odyssey, Jul 13, 2015: "We need to work to remove the stigma from the word 'feminism' because it's about equality and not about man-hating … I propose we all pause and think about what the word feminism really means. To me, feminism means empowerment. It means I can speak my mind and stand up for what I believe in. It means I have the strength to accomplish anything I set my mind to. I can talk too much, laugh too loudly, love way too hard and too much, and unapologetically be me. I want everyone to one day feel comfortable and empowered enough to say the same. So instead of putting each other down, let's lift each other up. Let's stop denying the power of feminism, because it can be life-changing. Let's stop treating feminism like a dirty word and instead… Read More

Philadelphia:: Blue Heron Press / Borowsky Cener for Publication Arts,, 2002.. Edition of 200. 6 x 6" folded; 6 x 9" unfolded. Offset lithography on shaped paper. Letterpress on Daphne paper. Accordian folded into self cover. 12 pages. This multi segmented book moves through nature's profusion, dessiccation, and human encroachment, ideas which were explored in a collaboration between the two artists. This project was made possible by the Artist in Residence program at the University of the Arts. This is an ecological treatise printed from polymer relief plates onto Daphne fiber paper from Bhutan.

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2002.. Edition of 10. 8.5 x 8.5" with compound binding. Mixed media prints with hand lettering. Another of Goodale's books in the Threatened & Endangered series. Each in this series uses different structures and approaches to communicate knowledge and love of each species. In this book she used Japanese grass paper to cover the boards. Using this material allows the reader to have a tactile experience as well as a visual one with the subject of the book.

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2002.. Edition of 10. 11 x 16.5" with three section compound binding. Hand colored silk-screen prints with collage. This book's pages are composed of portraits of the fifteen birds listed by the state of Maine as Threatened or Endangered.

Claremont, California:: Scripps College Press,, 2017.. Edition of 15. 5.5" x 4.5" (closed). Carousel structure. Screenprinted cover. Papercuts. Bound in Japanese bookcloth. Signed and numbered. Scripps College Press: "this artist’s book contains a series of original poems that focus upon the necessity of experiencing tragedy and hardship for the development of a brighter and bolder self.

Rochester, New York:: Preacher's Biscuits Books.. 9 x 7"; 100 pages. Case bound in silver boards with image embossed on front board. Preacher Biscuit's Books: "Julie Buck has a lot of friends. For Finite Sets she sorts her friends from various times, places, and circumstances into Venn diagrams. A Venn diagram represents separate, closed sets in circles and shows the sets relations by overlapping regions. Inside each of Julie's circles is a self-portrait and within every friend-set a change in identity shows clearly on her stark, silhouetted face. So while the term has temporarily crept into our vocabulary, consider this a facebook that shows a friend network, as well as identity’s ever-changing face, within a set of connections." Julie Buck is a collage artist and photographer, who lives in New York City.