Artichoke Editions. Jonathan L. Clark. 550 Mountain View Avenue, Mountain View, CA 9404, USA. Tel: +16509694110. Website: http://www.artichokepress.net.
Joseph Stroud. Letter to Robinson Jeffers. 2024. 11 pages. 335 x 250 mm. Pegasus [Berthold Wolpe] on Cragbourn — rare vintage American paper made circa 1935 on a cylinder-mould machine by Hurlbut Paper Mill (South Lee, MA, est. 1806); a favorite paper of Bruce Rogers and other fine-press printers in the 1930s – with hand-coated inkjet-printed photograph “Hawk Tower, Tor House, 1970” by Jonathan L. Clark. Printed on Vandercook 232P. 30 copies bound by the printer in decorative paper-covered boards with natural linen spine with a cover paper design derived from a photographic image of the stones of Robinson Jeffers’s Hawk Tower. Price: $275. Signed by the author. In his long poem, “Letter to Robinson Jeffers: Big Sur Coast, Winter, 2005”, Joseph Stroud addresses Jeffers’s ghostly presence and finds relevance for our age in the poet’s philosophy, as “the Nightmare of the future as relentless as the surge of the sea is gathering around us”. California poet Joseph Stroud is the author of six books of poetry, including the award-winning “Of This World: New and Selected Poems”. Other honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Witter Bynner Fellowship in Poetry from the Library of Congress, the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature.
Muttons & Nuts. Philip Treble. Calf House Studios, Cold Harbour Farm, Bishop Burton, East Yorkshire HU17 8JF, UK. Tel: +447706146974. Website: https://www.muttonsandnuts.co.uk.
Philip Treble. Pylon 4ZR 25. 2024. 124 pages. 207 x 129 mm. Monotype Bell on Fedrigoni Tintoretto Gesso 140 gsm, with 87 photographs. Printed on Vandercook SP-15. 20 copies handbound by Philip Treble in an asymmetric hardback case binding in letterpress-printed black Windsor full-cloth on the back, and quarter-bound on the front with a letterpress printed side using 135gsm Slate Colorplan. Price: £190. A photo book capturing a year in the life of a pylon in the Yorkshire Wolds, inviting viewers to find beauty in the seemingly mundane. Every time I was at my studio throughout 2022, I would go for a walk to take a photograph of a pylon in a field of wheat. The resulting collection of photographs recorded much more than just the pylon: the changing seasons, the weather, the crops growing, and eventual harvesting.
NewLights Press. Aaron Cohick. PO Box 19781, Louisville, KY 40259, USA. Tel: +14805676894. Website: https://www.newlightspress.com.
Aaron Cohick. Drift • Fragment. 2024. 48 pages. 317.5 x 190.5 mm. Threshold Alphabet on Somerset Book lightweight, with 24 printed and hand-painted double-page spreads using Risograph, sumi ink, gesso, acrylic ink wash, graphite, non-photo-blue pencil, and delamination. 12 copies in sewn-boards binding with cloth spine and painted board wrappers; clamshell box by Adam Bryant with colophon set into the bottom tray. Price: $2500. Drift • Fragment is an editioned, hand-painted text-image poem about reading, memory, time, labor, and rest. Each copy contains the same text but the construction of each page spread varies from book to book, obscuring some fragments and revealing others. The twenty-four double-page spreads track the hours of the day using a changing palette of colors. Three threads of text move through the book, each rendered in a different size of an experimental set of letterforms called the Threshold Alphabet.
Linda Landers Fine Press Books. Linda Landers. 68, Elsham Road, Flat C, London, London W14 8HD, UK. Tel: +447852449021. Website: https://lindalanders.art.
William Blake. Ah! Sunflower! 2023. Accordion fold. 700 x 493 mm. Snell roundhand for colophon on Somerset White Satin 250gsm, with sunflower and poem linocut by Linda Landers and two small etchings after William Blake and a decorative flora and fauna border added. Printed by computer and hand. 10 copies in cloth cover, printed and collaged with linocut and gold leaf, endpapers of hand-stenciled Fabriano, and closure of bone, parchment and ribbon. Made on order. Price: On request.
Abstract Orange. Lauren Emeritz. 1543 44th St NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA. Tel: +1 2022303532. Website: http://abstractorange.com/.
Lauren Emeritz, Abstract Orange. Water. 2024. 44 pages. 280 x 178 mm. Wood type on artist’s handmade paper. Printed on a Vandercook. 20 copies, variable, sewn and glue bound by the artist, price: $1500.
Incline Press. Graham Moss. 36 Bow Street, Oldham, Lancashire OL1 1SJ, UK. Tel: +441616271966. Website: https://www.inclinepress.com/.
John Baskerville and Caroline Archer-Parré. PREFACE. 2024. 10 pages. 270 x195 mm. Three different Baskervilles on Zerkall. Two line blocks – one from a linocut, the other from a steel engraving – by unknown illustrators. Printed on an Autovic. 148 copies: 100 sewn into heavy handmade paper from Two Rivers Paper Mill, commissioned to suit the style of Baskerville as referred to in his invoice book, price £25; 48 hardback with paper over boards, cloth spine, and design in the style of a Roxburgh Club general edition, paper stained deep reddish brown, price: £48 (OP). All work in house.
First Bite Press. Stephanie Kimbro Dolin. 228 Westridge Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028, USA. Tel: +1 9106195530. Website: https://www.firstbitepress.com.
Miranda Culp and Jef Delman. The Canon of Aphrodisia in Four Volumes. 2024. Ca. 90 pages per volume. 146 x 80 mm. Perpetua and Johanna on Arches Rives Lightweight book with a full-page frontispiece per volume and a frontispiece before each of the 12 stories in the collection, hand-drawn by Laurelin Gilmore, and with ornaments unique to each volume based on the flower and border chosen by the artist for the theme of the volume. Printed on a Vandercook Universal III. 125 copies: 100 hardback in full cloth with stamping on the spine, each volume in the collection a different color, housed in a slipcase of handmade Cave Paper, price: $800; 25 covered in Cave Paper with leather spines (different colored leather for each volume), leather headbands, decorative stamping and titling, hand-marbled endsheets, the 4 full-page frontispieces hand-painted by Laurelin Gilmore, a portfolio in Cave Paper containing 5 hand-printed illustrations not included in the limited edition, housed in a telescoping box with an acrylic window to show the spines, price: $2100. All binding by Amy Borezo. The collection contains 12 erotic stories including Authors’ Notes with historical context following each tale. The authors use erotic scenes as a fresh way to explore familiar character arcs and thematic elements, taking great care to present each tale in the idiom and voice of the original author, so that each story might work on its own terms. The original stories were conceived in a patriarchal, hetero-normative context, but by shining an egalitarian light on each of them, unexpected dynamics emerge.
The Heavy Duty Press. Michael Koppa. E10650 Old HWY 56, Viola, WI 54664, USA. Tel: +1 6086065854. Website: https://heavydutypress.com
Augustine Maxwell Jones. Understanding This Book. 2023. 20 pages. 279 x 229 mm. Franklin Gothic on Hahnemühle Biblio and Hahnemühle Ingres with 4 photographs by Koppa, giclee printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag inside cover. Printed on a Vandercook SP15. 18 copies bound with a pamphlet stitch in Photo Rag 300 gsm, tucked in a Hahnemühle Bugra jacket, stiffened with board, no adhesive, price: $400. Typographical documentation of cleaning and organizing type purchased from a retired commercial printer in 1995, presented in a 20-page book featuring every last sort from nine California job cases of ATF Franklin Gothic typefaces, and arranged according to a variety of strategies only likely to occur when composing metal types by hand.
Muttons & Nuts. Philip Treble 14 Dene Road, Cottingham, East Yorkshire HU16 5PJ, UK. Tel: +44 (0)7706146974. Website: https://www.muttonsandnuts.co.uk/.
Philip Treble. Tints. 2024. 16 pages. 200 x 130 mm. Monotype Grotesque on Mohawk Superfine White Eggshell 148 gsm. Printed on a Vandercook SP-15. 20 copies bound in a single section hardback by Philip Treble using white Windsor book cloth printed letterpress with the title from a laser engraved MDF plate, price: £90. This is a book showing a selection of eight ink colours from Hawthorn Printmaker Supplies and how to tint them using weighed-out ink in ratios of transparent white to base colour. The ratios shown are base colour, 3/1, 10/1, 30/1, 100/1 and 200/1.
Alice Austin Artist Books. Alice Austin. 1024 Carpenter Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147, USA. Website: http://amaustin.com.
Alice Austin. Blanket Bog. 2023. 5 pages. 130 x 155 mm. Garamond on Mohawk Superfine with 8 hand-cut linoleum prints, three of which are reduction prints in multiple colors, by Austin. Printed on a Vandercook SP-15. 25 copies of a five-panel tunnel book, constructed and bound by Austin, price: $700. Evokes a drive through the blanket bog along the west coast of Ireland in County Mayo. A herd of sheep stops the car and the viewer contemplates the hillside, with piles of peat, cut and stacked to dry. Printed from hand-cut linoleum prints, the side panels take the viewer along the road from farmland into the bog. The last panel is a five-color reduction linoleum print of the landscape. The back of the tunnel book has a poem written by the artist about the blanket bog.
