Confines of Content: Exhibit Objects

ABC - Robert Pinsky
Vixen Press
2003; Edition 9/10
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

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There are 10 copies of this book, typeset, designed and printed at the Vixen Press. I am indebted to Robert Pinsky for his permission to use his poem, and to Bruce Beck who has given me the paper on which it is printed. This book is made in memory of my brother, Eugene Fox.  July 2003.

An Abecedarium - Muriel Underwood
Miscellaneous Graphics
2005; Edition 19/50
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

Produced and printed with equipment at Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts.

An Inflammatory Guide to Banned and Challenged Books- Jessica Spring
Springtide Press
2005
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

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An Inflammatory Guide was printed by hand to commemorate Banned Books Week 2005 at King's Bookstore in Tacoma, WA.
Research & Editorial: Sweet Pea
Design & Printing: Jessica Spring

Anansi Company – Ronald King and Roy Fisher
Circle Press
1992; Edition 56/120
From the Herskovits Library of African Studies

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The content of the book is mainly derived from those familiar tales central to Caribbean culture, concerning Anansi the spider-man and his company of animal friends. In these stories, Anansi still speaks with a shaman's spirit voice, high and hoarse, and in a disheveled language that's a travesty of whatever dialect he might be supposed to use. The book is made up of fifteen unbound sections, designed, silk-screened, hand-stenciled and letterpressed by Ron King onto 300gsm Arches rag-made paper, held in a card wrap-around and inserted into a heavily blocked solander box, which is covered in three different colors of cloth. Thirteen of the sections are French-folded and pocketed inside to hold the puppets and carry the letterpressed poems which are set in Monotype Walbaum. The puppets, which are made from hand-bent brass wire and card, measure 30 cm. overall and are easily extracted from the book.

Ballet for Opening Day – Nelson Algren
Sherwin Beach Press
2002; Edition 6/50
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

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The type is Walbaum, cast by Michael and Winifred Bixler of Skaneateles, New York. The etchings were pulled by Teresa S. Mucha, master printer, Big Cat Press. The paper was handmade by Twinrocker of Brookston, Indiana. The book was designed by Robert McCamant, printed by Martha Chiplis, and bound by Trisha Hammer.

Dreaming: A Story from the !Kung – Jammie and Pippa Skotnes
Capetown, South Africa
199?
From the Herskovits Library of African Studies

Unique copy made and bound by Pippa Skotnes. A strong sense of history and tradition infuse Skotnes’ visual images but the connections she makes between past and present imbue her work with contemporary significance. Her formal studies in archeology and printmaking infuse her etchings and books with African and Western cultural and aesthetic references and pose important debates about image transformation.
Story recorded in Cape Town by Lucy Lloyd.

Circulus Sapientiae – Saint Hildegard
Janus Press
2001; Edition 19/120
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

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This publication was planned to celebrate Hildegard's nine hundredth birthday. Claire Van Vliet made the pulp paintings with Katie MacGregor in Whiting, ME who also made the colored sheets and covers. The other papers are Twinrocker Lilac Wind & Barcham Green RWS, Nefertiti, Renaissance IV and Dover; the popups were executed by Audrey Holden, the chemise & slipcase by Judi Conant & Mary Richardson in Maidstone, VT. The latin text is Rudolph Koch's Walau & the English, Trump Mediæval. The cover lettering is Circulus Sapientiae in Hildegard's secret alphabet.

Collector's Tales –Jessica Spring
Springtide Press
2001; Edition 12/15
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

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Collectors' Tales was produced by Jessica Spring {postcards, photo albums, letterpress stuff} at Springtide Press in a boxed edition of 15. Collector cards were printed letterpress with polymer plates on handmade paper. The accompanying pamphlet, also printed letterpress on handmade paper, includes an essay written by Annie Morse {squished pennies, vintage aprons, avocado skins, art, toilet paper wrappers, pantyhose packaging} with illustrations by Susan Estelle Kwas {poster stamps, children's books, ephemera}. Eucalyptus bottle provided by Geoff Moor.

Echo Book- Ronald King
Circle Press
1994; Edition of 75
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

Drawn in wire & blind-embossed on an etching press. White pages and dark blue cover. Pamphlet stitched. Long, narrow format. The words echo book are embossed into substantial handmade rag paper so that the impression gradually grows "quieter" as you advance. Features a play on words--'Echo Book,' when reversed in capital letters, spells 'Book Echo.' The impression fades as the pages are turned in sequence.

Gateway – Alisa Golden
Never Mind the Press
1992; Edition 29/40
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

Letterpress printing of hand-set Typo Roman on Torayamo Art paper; Wood type, St. Armand, Tea Chest Silver & black Moriki.

GIF 2 – Mark Attwood, ed.
The Artists' Press
1994
From the Herskovits Library of African Studies

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GIF is a collaborative effort dedicated to the publishing of visual art.
Printed by the Artists' Press on Zerkall White, 145 gsm paper. Typeset by Paul Emmanuel. Bound by Pretoria Book Binders. Wooden slip-cases by Michael Zeffertt. Bronzes by Guy du Toit. Artworks are original works created by the respective artists, and are mounted in the book using acid-free hinges.

High Tension - Phillip Zimmerman
Visual Workshop Press (for Montage '93)
1993; Edition of 1000
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

High Tension was printed using three-color process inks (cyan, yellow, and magenta), by offset lithography, and smythe-sewn in six signatures. No black plate was used, as is customary with process four-color work.

I Scream Stoooooooge - Allen Schiller
Santa Barbara, California
1972
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

Using an alarming of media, including corrugated cardboard, wax-encased paper, text stamped and fired clay, plastic beads, Hotwheels race car tracks, rubber stampings, and twine, this collection of objects housed in a cardboard cylinder reads more like a hallucinogenic freak-out than a hand-bound narrative.

Is a Puzzle a Riddle or a Riddle a Puzzle? – Amos Kennedy
Jubilee Press
1998
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

Printed at the Graphic Design Press: Bloomington, IN. Designed and manufactured by Kennedy & Sons, Fine Printers.  Horizontally and vertically accordion pleated leaf of handmade paper with covers.

Memoria – Janet Simon
Cape Town
2001
From the Herskovits Library of African Studies

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The images in this book were created from original mixed media works by Janet Simon. The method of production involved photographing the original mixed media works and scanning the transparencies on a high resolution drum scanner. The digital images were then manipulated using Adobe Photoshop 5.5 and laid out in book format, with the addition of text, in Quark Xpress 4.0. The book was printed on mould-made cotton paper using a high quality ENCAD digital inkjet printer and GX links. The book was bound using a concertina binding technique.

Poisonous Plants at Table & Prudence:  The Cautionary Tale of a Picky Eater – George Henslow and Audrey Niffenegger
Sherwin Beach
2006; Edition 8/75
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

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Design and binding by Trisha Hammer, letterpress printing by Martha Chiplis, and Giclee color printing by Bob Mc Camant, all of Sherwin Beach Press, Chicago. Set in Monotype Gill Sans and Joanna by Michael and Winifred Bixler of Skaneateles, New York. Papers are Mohawk Superfine, a specially coated paper developed by Twinrocker Handmade Paper of Brookston, Indiana; A Japanese fabric-covered case drops away to expose the sewing and non-adhesive binding. A back pocket houses the text block while a front pocket houses a plant collection sleeve containing pressed Colchicum blossoms. The whole thing is contained in a box covered in the same fabric.

Outsiders – Wole Soyinka
Wisteria Press
1999; Edition F/32
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

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Designed and printed by Dwight Agner at The Press of the Nightowl. The text type is monotype Octavian, from The Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing. The frontispiece engraving is by Barry Moser. 32 copies printed on Nideggen mouldmade paper, of which 26 copies were sold, lettered A to Z. The binding is by Campbell-Logan Bindery. The lettered copies are quarter bound in Nigerian Oasis leather with marbled paper over boards, presented in a specially designed handmade box by Kannex Fung.

Pistol/Pistil – Ann Kalmbach & Tatana Kellner
Artists-in-Residence at the University of Southern Maine
1997; Edition 81/100
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

Pistol/Pistil is bound in wooden boards held by leather and bullet casings.  This edition of 100 was silkscreen printed on Mohawk Superine, UV Ultra and Handmade Abaca Fiber Paper.

My Father Was Always Sleeping (Shhh, Henry's Sleeping) - Nicole Hollander
Arcadian Press
1996; Edition 57/91
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

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January in Wisconsin had everything this year; blizzards, sub-zero days and nights, temperatures in the forties, and for me, the printer, a cataclysmic shock. I print at the vernal equinox for my husband, Jim,
July 17, 1935 – January 9, 1997.  All the 60 point type in the shop appears in book: Kabel Light from Zimmerman Printing in Sheboygan, designed by Rudolph Koch; Chisel from Stephenson Blake; & A.T.F. Caslon Roman. The Gill Light is from Horsfall & Sons Ltd. The method of coloring the Root River Mill abaca, from green to red and back again, was devised by Matthew Albritton.

Qauqaua  – Coex'ae Qgam
The Artists' Press
1997; Edition 40/100
From the Herskovits Library of African Studies

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This book contains eleven color images which are hand printed aluminum plate lithographs, drawn by the following artists of the Kuru Aet Project:  Thamae Setshogo, Coex'ae Qgam (Dada), Qwaa Mangana, Cgose Ncoxo, Coex'ae Bob (Enni), and Nxabe Eland.   Linocuts by the Kuru artists Sobe Sobe, Thame Kaashe and Qhaeqhao Moses were scanned and combined with text, before being hand printed on a Vandercook letterpress proof-press. The book was hand printed by Mark Attwood, Paul Emmanuel and Bill Hosterman at The Artists' Press, Johannesburg, on 250 gsm white Arches paper in a limited edition of 100 plus 20 artists' proofs.  Hand bound by Johan Maree, Cape Town, using goat skin which has been tanned by the tannery at D'kar, using elandsboontjie roots.

Selected Poems:  1961-1991 – Patrick Cullinan
The Artists' Press
1992; Edition 25/40
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

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Printed on BFK Rives 250 g/m2 by Mark Attwood. Images are original lithographs handprinted from metal plates and stones. Typeset in Garamond by Liz Wigginton. Each book contains an original oil painting on Belgian linen canvas.

Strange Fruit:  Words Protesting Lynchings and Burnings -Amos Kennedy
Jubilee Press
1994
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

Partly quotations, including four poems: "Strange fruit" by Lewis Allan, "The Haunted Oak" by Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Lynching" and "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay. Printed in black and brown on handmade abaca papers from the Root River Paper Mill, made by Caren Heft and Michael Nitsch; offset printed background images. In four signatures separated by double leaves of black handmade paper, printed in gold. Cover of folded handmade maroon paper; title in gold on front cover.

Absence – J. Meejin Yoon
Printed Matter, Inc.
2003
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

Both a book and a sculptural object, Absence is a memorial to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Yoon, an architect and designer who is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chose not to produce a traditional design proposal for the World Trade Center Memorial Competition. Instead she created a non-architectural, non site-specific space of remembrance: a portable personal memorial in the form of book.

The Dream Tree – Candy Bonello
Rainbird Books
2002
From the Herskovits Library of African Studies

Cover designed by the author and embroidered at a small factory in Cebe.
"My stories emerged out of this landscape.
From the rivers and the sea that surround it.
From the great forest fringing it.                                                                         
From the moon that influences the daily lives of the people.
The mythical River People, the Sea Sprites and the lost souls of the forest all evolve from this land.
It is from this land, these myths that my stories unfold. "

• The Lending Library – Alisa Golden
  Never Mind the Press
  1996; Edition 43/50
  From the McCormick Library of Special Collections
  
  Three single folio hand sewn books in accordion spine folder:
  
  "The Mirror Business"
  Printed on Salago & Banana Bark paper, typeset on a Caslon, Onyx & Bank Gothic letterpress.
  
  "The Local Desk"
  Middle paper handmade from abaca & drier lint, blended in a Cuisinart, dried on windows, then ironed flat. Handset on a Caslon 471. Rubberstamps from Good Impressions, West Virginia.
  
  "Fish Cake"
  Handset on a Caslon 471 & 2 letterpress, linocuts and rubber stamps from Bizarro & elsewhere.

The Real World of Manuel Cordova – W.S. Merwin
Ninja Press
1995; Edition 107/160
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

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Designed, printed, and bound by Carolee Campbell at Ninja Press. The type is Samson Uncial. The handmade papers are Persimmon-washed Kakishibu for the text and raw flax paper for the enclosure which is fastened with alum-tawed goat skin and bone. The map of the world printed on the cover is from the original, the first to show the world's currents, drawn in 1665 by Athanasius Kircher.

The Snake King – David King
Arcadian Press
1992; Edition 50/50
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

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The Snake King was made in a sunless spring. The Root River Mill abaca papers result from trying the untried, pushing the medium past what we can comfortably accomplish. As the Handschy inks hit the papers, the sun finally appeared. The Arboret type is from the Los Angeles Type Founders, the Spectrum, M&H.

Tropos – Kevin Osborn
Osbornbook
1988; Edition of 1750
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

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Tropos was printed using offset lithography on 70# Mohawk superfine with Toyo inks at Pyramid Atlantic in Washington D.C. The cover is 17 point Lexotone. Gerald Claiborne and Brad Freeman were the printers. The wood spines were manufactured by my brother, Eric Osborn. Artisan II of Alexandria, Virginia foil-stamped and the Norwitz Company of Washington D.C. bound the book.

The Tower of the Winds – Lawrence G. Van Velzer & Peggy Gotthold
Foolscap Press
2002; Edition 12/200
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

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This book was designed and printed by the authors. The edition of 200 numbered copies were printed letterpress from polymer plates on a hacker hand press. The type face is adobe herculanum. The papers are zerkall book and hand-made Epgyptian papyrus. The scroll cases were produced from dyed, hand-shaped arches paper. The binding was done at the press.

The Ultimate Safari – Nadine Gordimer
The Artists' Press
2001
From the Herskovits Library of African Studies

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This book contains twelve original lithographs, drawn on ball-grained aluminum plates by Dorah Ngomane, Aletah Masuku and Alsetah Manthosi. The plates were drawn in the village of Welverdiend, near the Kruger Park's Orpen Gate in the Northern Province, South Africa, where the artists now live. This was done during a two week workshop facilitated by Tamar Mason and Paul Emmanuel in 1995. Proofing and hand-printing of the images was later carried out by Mark Attwood, Joseph Legate and Peter Sekole at The Artists' Press, Johannesburg. Printed on 250 gsm white Arches paper. The text was hand-printed from polymer blocks on a Vandercock letterpress proof-press.

Three Cages – Joyce Cutler Shaw
Center for Book Arts
1993; Edition 121/250
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

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The text is typeset in the Alphabet of Bones, an original calligraphy based on the hollow bones of birds, and in Malibu italic. The paper is 100% cotton fiber Clearprint.

What Every Woman Needs – Sande Wascher-James
1996; Edition 5/10
From the McCormick Library of Special Collections

Contains the text of a quote by Sophie Tucker, and reproductions of American stamps honoring women.  Quilted cloth pages unfold to 20 x 20 cm. Issued in cloth covered box with embroidered lid.  Inside printed with a photograph of Sophie Tucker.