Greener Pastures
Attention: Soon I am leaving the country and will be temporarily or semi-permanently suspending my bookbinding to focus, unwaveringly, on my writing.
Pages: 160
Length: 6 inches
Width: 4.8 inches
Depth: 0.63 inches
Cover: 1976 rural American coats and sheep collage with black and white marbleized paper on spine
Endpapers: Bilateral (green/speckled white) Japanese paper
Signatures: Slightly off white
Walking through open fields, spaces which stretch far beyond the self, extending the self until all vitals burst. But when that moment passes? Would it be forgotten? Those vibrations, which contain the boundlessness to shake your crucial entity. Creation is a natural bi-product of friction and of repose. No matter what you reap, may it be in abundance to what is sown. The relevence? Greener pastures, as an idea, seems to scream for an excuse to be shaken. And this book. . . well. . . it appears as if it already has.
$40, sold.
Little Blue Hawaii
Pages: 112
Length: 6.5 inches
Width: 4.8 inches
Depth: 0.55 inches
Cover: Pacific Ocean map, dated 1956, printed by National Geographic
Endpapers: Thin Japanese paper with straw
Signatures: Blue
This small and simple book begs to encircle the globe. If not a full circumscription then perhaps a sojourn to the Pacific? The blue blank pages beckon to be filled with moments of wonder or more fitting perhaps, moments suspended somewhere between water and air. Kind of makes me feel like swimming.
$35, sold.
Birth
Pages: 98
Length: 8.15 inches
Width: 8.15 inches
Depth: 0.5 inches
Cover: Zebra print on black with mid-18th Century encyclopedia illustrations
Endpapers: Thin red Japanese paper
Signatures: Slightly off white
A book as symbolic as the title implies. What is born, concepted then created, is light and laden, at once, black, white and infinite variegation. The illustrations depict a chick’s struggle to break open its shell. On the inside of each cover-board is another picture of the egg, surrounded by what impresses me as being blood and feathers. There is nothing subtle about this book, besides of course, the zebra print.
$45, sold.
Song of Spring and Stripes
Pages: 144
Length: 9.8 inches
Width: 5 inches
Depth: 0.69 inches
Cover: Alternating flower and diagnal line fabrics with sheet music
Endpapers: Blue flower petaled paper
Signatures: Aged off-white
This tall and slender book appears older than its age. The circa sixties floral print may have been destined as a bold halter top or perhaps even curtains, but has now landed, paired with Durand’s Valse in E-Flat. I especially enjoy the paper used for the signatures, a little yellowed around the edges, adding a tinge of permanence.
$45, Sold.
“I'm Mowing the Lawn!”
Pages: 72
Length: 8.2 inches
Width: 6.2 inches
Depth: 0.6 inches
Cover: Yellow gingham fabric with 1976 rural American women collage
Endpapers: Thin Japanese paper with grass
Signatures: Slightly off white
“Mowing the lawn is just one of the chores farm wife Edith Grady handles. Most of the day hers is the typical farm wife’s fare…,” reads the collage on the cover. This book is equably parody and nostalgia. I can still smell the fresh cut grass, pulsing out of the mower in bales, because sometimes, the weather turns so strongly humid, all grass is doubly germinated. Besides, who knows much about farm wife’s fares anymore?
$45, sold.
Green Flower Book
Pages: 136
Length: 9.8 inches
Width: 5 inches
Depth: 0.7 inches
Cover: Green floral print napkin
Endpapers: Blue flower petal paper
Signatures: Aged off-white
What else can be done with green floral napkins?
$40, SOLD (I still have a couple more green flower napkins and can bind a similar book in two weeks time.)
