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Frederic Tuten. Uncle Umberto’s Orchard. 2024. 38 pages. 330 x 230 mm. Walbaum on Papeterie St-Armand custom-ordered, 3 silk-screen prints in the special edition and 2 in the standard. Printed on a Vandercook 219. 80 copies bound by Jace Graf at Cloverleaf Studio: 60 full-bound in gray linen, with an original silkscreen print on the cover; enclosed in a slipcase covered in blue paper dry-embossed with pressmark, but with the edges covered in maroon-colored cloth, and label on the spine of the slipcase. Price: $700. 20 copies full-bound in gray linen, with an original silkscreen print on the cove; enclosed in a maroon-colored cloth-covered clamshell box, and label on the spine of the box; third print in blue folder inside the top of the box. Price: $1,100. A short story by four-time Pushcart Award-winner Frederic Tuten, with two multi-color screenprints developed by Gary Lichtenstein based on original paintings by Tuten. Colophon signed by the author/artist. Book design by Gabriel Rummonds. Calligraphy by Jerry Kelly. Printed in black and burgundy at Sandy Tilcock’s lone goose press in Bisbee, AZ.