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

Chapel Hill, North Carolina:: Blue Bluer Books,, 2013.. Open Edition. 7" x 5.25"; 4 pages. Accordion structure. Inkjet printed with an Epson R2200 on Moab paper. Bound in black cloth-covered boards with collage title illustration on front cover. In paper slipcase with title label on side inserted into four corner picture slots. Each copy has unique burn/smoke marks made with matches and incense. Signed by the artist. Josh Hockensmith: "The two trigrams that make up hexagram 64 are Fire over Water. Thomas Cleary's translation of hexagram 64 reads, 'The unfinished being carried out is a small fox almost finished making a crossing; if it gets its head wet, nothing is profited.' "Other translations of the hexagram include 'Not yet forded,' and 'Before completion.' It can be read as an encouraging sign that the successful achievement of a goal is in sight, or alternatively as a warning not to lose focus when something is nearly finished -… Read More

Memphis, Tennessee:: Kyle Holland,, 2018.. Edition of 23. 6" W x 9" H (closed); 14 pages. Offset lithograph on Steel Blue French Paper. Text screenprinted from 12 pt. Hoefler. Bound as a modified accordion. Signed and numbered by the artist. Includes sheet with instructions for displaying. Kyle Holland: "The book depicts the forest at dusk using one-color offset lithography to reproduce photographs of a misty woodland edge and the flora leading up to it with an additional graphic image of trees and text screenprinted on top. It is not bound in the strictest sense of the word; rather, each printed sheet was folded and cut in such a way that, when the book is displayed how it was intended to be viewed, it takes the form of a modified accordion structure. A portion of the sculptural book stands while the rest of it lies on the surface it is displayed on resulting in a 9" tall x 24" wide small-scale environment that the viewer/reader can walk around. "The text in this… Read More

Tacoma, Washington:: Springtide Press,, [2014].. Edition of 31. 11 x 14" single sheet. Handset ornaments and type. Letterpress printed on handmade Arch Paper. Numbered and signed by the printer. Lyrics of the popular song written by Meredith Wilson - "I See the Moon". A broadside from Springtide Pres with the lyrics printed extending from the curve of the moon shape.

New York, New York:: Sheryl Oring,, 2005.. Edition of 100 . 4.5 x 7.25"; 28 numbered pages. Housed in an 11.75 x 9.25" manila folder that is closed on three sides. Title label at top of folder. Includes a selection of cards created during performances in Los Angeles and Walnut Creek (California) in 2004. Combines art, politics, and interactive performance to offer the public a chance to say what's on their mind. Oring set up a typewriter and asked visitors "If I were President of the US what would you say to me?" The visitor's reply was then handtyped to a postcard addressed to the White House. With photographs by Dagmar Hovestädt of participants. "I Wish to Say" took form after many Europeans told Oring that all Americans think alike. Oring: "Because I had lived in so many parts of the country, I thought this couldn't possibly be true. This project is demonstrating to the world how diverse America really is….The response has been very… Read More

Ann Arbor, Michigan:: Quack! Media Press / Sheryl Oring,, 2008 - 2010.. Special signed edition. 8.5 x 8.5"; 140 pages. More than 66 color photographs; 49 color illustrations. Bound in glossy illustrated wraps. Preface by Sheryl Oring. Introduction by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Asian American Studies at Cornell University. Signed by Oring on the title page. Accompanied with a file folder of newspaper clippings from The Birthday Project. Miriam Schaer, Bonefolder, Volume 7, 2011: "Hillary Clinton popularized the maxim that it takes a village to raise a child. Sometimes it also takes a village to make a book. At least that's how several adventurous female book artists see it. ...""In 2006, Oring launched I Wish to Say: the Birthday Project, inviting people to send 60th birthday wishes to then President Bush. As in the first project, the dictated cards expressed all sides of the political spectrum. Oring, as usual was careful to not… Read More

Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland:: Coracle Books,, 2015.. Edition of 300. 105 x 150mm; 12 pages. 4-page laminated cover. Saddle-stitched binding. Printed digitally. The Book Remembers Everything: "In her Living Locally series, Van Horn celebrates the landscape, culture, and community of her adopted home in rural Tipperary, Ireland. Collecting, documenting, and illustrating the regional language of the area, Van Horn both acknowledges her position as a kind of outsider (a 'blow in,' in the local slang, referring to 'anyone who moves here from somewhere else') and locates herself firmly within the community." Van Horn continues the series with this picture book of black and white cows grazing contentedly in the Irish countryside.

St. Paul, Minnesota:: Bluestem Cottage Press,, 2023.. Edition of 9. 5.5" x 11" closed, extends to 33"; six panels. Accordion structure. Printed on Rives BFK buff, and grey. Images include a variety of alternative print techniques such as ink drawdowns, stencils, pochoir, and Tetra Pak printing to simulate intaglio. Letterpress printed on the Vandercook Universal 1 using polymer plates. Housed in a Japanese linen paper envelope. Signed and numbered by the artist. Julie Baugnet: "Concept: Often when we think about dreams we think about the dreams of sleep or the daydreams of our aspirations. We think of dreams in more or less a positive light. But what about the dark dreams? The dreams or visions about revenge, doing something wrong, or even killing? We've all said or heard the phrase, 'I could just kill you!' Such is the case with this poem. Barking dogs interrupt a writer's train of thought and in turn those thoughts plot out methods of disposing the dogs. Tinged… Read More

Tacoma, Washington:: Springtide Press,, 2015.. 8.5 x 4" single sheet, small broadside. Letterpress printed with handset Hobo type. Wikipedia: "Hobo is a sans serif typeface. It is unique in having virtually no straight lines and no descenders. It was created by Morris Fuller Benton and issued by American Type Founders in 1910. A light version, Light Hobo, was released in 1915. Matrices were offered for mechanical composition by Intertype. Hobo possesses uniquely organic and art nouveau-style features. "Its name came from a story stating that it was sketched in the early 1900s, sent to the foundry nameless, and progressed so little for so long, that it was called "that old hobo." Colophon: "Love it or hate it, 'that old' Hobo' is unencumbered with descenders & straight lines while burdened with an unfortunate name and plus sized physique."

[North Vitzroy, Victoria, Australia]:: Gracia and Louise,, 2017.. Edition of 6 + 1 AP. 8 x 4.75"; 8 pages. Concertina structure. Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm. Covers mounted on gold-trimmed board. Housed in a printed slipcase on 225gsm Buffalo board. Covers and pages printed by Arten. Slipcase printed by Bambra Press. Bound by Louise Jennison. Numbered, dated, and initialed by artists I think all the world is falling" is the first in the Looped series. The overall theme of this series seems to be our relationship to our environment, to nature, to the world at large. This first book in the series begins with a quote from "Kylling Kluk" (1823) by J. Mathia Thiele which is also the title of this first book - "I think all the world is falling." We imagine Chicken Little from this fairy tale running around thinking the sky is falling because a nut hit him on the head. That was long ago, perhaps now we are creating the 'nuts' that are falling all… Read More

Ruston, Louisiana:: Frank Hamrick,, 2013.. Edition of 25. 6.25" x 6.25"; 20 pages. Sewn binding. LaserJet printed on 50lb., double-sided, matte Red River Paper. Garamond typeface. Bound in quarter cloth. Paper covered boards of handmade cotton rag paper printed on an etching press using a polymer plate from Boxcar Press in Syracuse, New York. Signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon. Some stories were previously published in the one-of-a-kind books Hideaway, The Long Bed Truck with the Short Bed Camper Shell, and Free Puppies  Frank Hamrick, Disclaimer: "The ... events occurred in Georgia, except for the final story, which took place in New Mexico. The characters' names have been changed to conceal their identities, except for my family members. The character 'Mom' actually is my mom. Even though that is not the name on her birth certificate; I suppose because my siblings and I did not yet exist. My dad is also my dad and my sister is my sister. The… Read More

Grasswood, Saskatchewan, Canada:: Byopia Press,, 2012.. Edition of 30. 3 x 3.5"; 6 pages. Archival inkjet printed on Legion Domestic Etching. Typeset in Minioin Pro and Bickham Script Pro. Digitally altered photos of dead mosquitoes. Signed, dated, numbered by the artist on the back cover. Black wire net band closure. Cathryn Miller: "This is a tiny book containing a tiny thought that could change the world. The text is an African proverb heavily illustrated with images of mosquitoes (mostly squashed) and wrapped in a band of what we all need in places where mosquitoes live -window screen."  "IF you think you are TOO small to make a Difference, try spending a night in a closed room with a mosquito.

Atlantic Beach, Florida:: Linda Broadfoot,, 2005.. Edition of 50. A combination of handset letterpress and computer generated work. Letterpress was used to print the text using metal type on a flat bed press on a Vandercook Universal III using Hahnemuhle Biblio and Copperplate papers at the Letterpress & Foundry of Michael and Winifred Bixler. Then digitally reproduced small Giclée prints of the artist's original 20 x 24" Polaroid image transfers were printed archivally on Crane's Museo paper using an Epson 4000 printer. A modern day Cabinet of Wonders. Broadfoot uses A. S. Byatt's "Things Are Not What They Seem" to accompany her images as "a numinous guide to viewing" these wonders of nature. The insects shown were selected from the Florida State Collection of Arthropods. Broadfoot: "In the spring of 2001, I began to borrow insect specimens from the Florida State Collection of Arthropods. Carefully transporting this delicate cargo to… Read More

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2009.. Edition of 5. 12 x 15.5"; 43 unnumbered pages, many of which fold out from the main text block. Block printed with rubber stamped letters. Cloth bound. Rebecca Goodale: "This book unfolds to reveal a vernal pool with the four indicator species and a poem about mating season." An indicator species is often the most sensitive species in the region and acts as a warning to monitoring biologists. The indicator species of the vernal Maine pool are fairy shrimp, blue salamanders and yellow spotted salamanders, and wood frogs.

Portland Maine:: Carrie Scanga,, 2019.. Edition of 6. 27 x 30 cm. Intaglio print with letterpress. Pages designed and printed by the artist. Each page includes an engraving with a stencil overprinting. Images appear on double page spreads. Cross out poems by Mark Melnicove. Drum-leaf bound in hardcover with foil stamping. A foil stamped slipcover fits over the hard cover to protect the white book cloth. Binding and foil-stamping by Martha Kearsley of Strong Arm Bindery. Scott Vile set the type and letterpress printed. Signed and numbered by the artist. Iceblink" is an interpretation of archival materials documenting the 1932 voyage by Marie Peary Stafford to Greenland to oversee the construction of a monument to her father, explorer Robert Peary. "Iceblink" refers to the perceptual phenomenon of white light reflected onto the underside of clouds close to the horizon from distant plains of ice.  Carrie Scanga: "I began this project in university library archives,… Read More

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: The Puzzled Press,, 2022.. Edition of 25. Two items - "In Dreamland" and "An Ideal Nowhere: Finding my Utopia" housed in a custom clamshell box. "In Dreamalnd" was letterpress printed on a Vandercook SP15 using plastic placematas and photopolymer. "Finding my Utopia" is printed and bound as a pahmphlet and includes both letterpress and inkjet printing. Signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon. The Puzzled Press: "An Ideal Nowhere is a collection of work that explores the relationship between personal experiences and utopian societies. It comprises two pieces - "Dreamland" and "An Ideal Nowhere: Finding My Utopia ". "In Dreamland" features text from Annie Denton Cridge's utopian fiction piece "Man's Rights; or, How Would You like It?" which was originally published in 1870. "An Ideal Nowhere: Finding My Utopia" is an essay on the connections between… Read More

Cairo, Egypt:: Islam Aly,, 2021.. Edition of 30 variants + 5 proofs. Book Size: 3x 4 x 2.7x 1.25. Laser-cut hand-made paper. Twelve sections of 3 folios per section. Handbound in laser engraved wooden boards with Coptic binding of linen thread, and leather wrapping. Signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Islam Aly: "Illuminations IV' takes viewers on a journey through the intricate patterns and designs found in illuminated manuscripts. The book features a floral design in which the patterns increase and decrease in size from each side of the book, offering a new perspective and visual experience with every turn of the page and creating a sense of movement that echoes the delicate beauty of the floral patterns themselves. This layout makes sense of direction and depth, drawing the viewer in and inviting them to explore the intricate details of the patterns.

Chicago, Illinois:: Chicago's Center for Book and Paper Arts,, 2009.. Two booklets in yellow title band. Each booklet: 4.5 x 5.75"; 14 pages; offset printed. Letterpress printed band. Printed and produced at the Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Art. Clifton Meador: "The pamphlet was originally an insert in the Blue Notebook Vol 3 No2, May 2009. This book pretty much covers my emotional arc about the President [Obama] - from euphoria to disappointment.

San Francisco, California:: Insiya Dhatt,, 2019.. Edition of 5. 8.5 x 8.5". Accordion structure. Eight laser-cut images. Materials: Museum Board, Arches Text Wove. Inkjet printed. Signed and numbered by the artist. Insiya Dhatt: "'Illusions' examines the reality or elusiveness of basic qualities of life. By obscuring desirable qualities of life and placing them opposite optical illusions, 'Illusions' demonstrates the varying internal and external views of one's foundational needs. From a distance, the book can be viewed as visually stimulating yet closer up the picture is more nuanced. "'Illusions' is an accordion book with eight laser-cut optical illusions with a single word opposite each optical illusion. These words and images question the availability of so-called expected qualities of life. In my own life, I created the illusion of strength for my family in my home country while I struggled internally in my life in the West.

Gainesville, Florida:: Crooked Letter Press,, 2021.. Edition of 200. 11.5"W x 15"H; 32 pages. Printed by Newspaper Club in color. Ellen Knudson: "I developed these drawings for my own educational and instructional purposes over years of teaching my Book Arts class. Creating diagrams helps me understand the structures better, and I can teach them in a more complete way as a result. Although somewhat directional, the diagrams included in this publication are intended to supplement in-person (or online) bookmaking instruction and practice. "I’m indebted to others that have provided instructions in book binding and inspirational note-taking; many of these diagrams stem from their teachings: Anna Embree, Sarah Bryant, Heather Weston, Alisa Golden, and Frank Zeier in particular. "I hope people find these drawings beautiful, educational, and useful!

New Paltz, New York:: Papyrus Productions ,, 2010.. Edition of 10. 10.75 x 8.125"; 38 pages. Japanese stab binding. Photography. Imagination the Spy compares through photographs historic and contemporary representations of Oceania.  Papyrus Productions: "One hundred years ago, the anthropologist Arthur Maurice Hocart worked and photographed on Lakeba and Rotuma, two remote Fijian islands. My own travels in Fiji from 1995 - 2001 took me to the same two remote islands. This book contrasts two responses to these similar experiences. Hocart's photographs, always on the left page, are housed in the Alexander Turnbulll Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mâtauranga o Aotearoa. My own imaginative response to these Fijian islands results from my photographs, watercolors made in 1995-2001, and from a personal idiosyncratic collection of nineteenth century travel books.