Tag: Nonfiction
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Workshopping at WSW
Workshopping at WSWEmily Larned2025Alder & Frankia 22 pages4.375 × 11 in. closedSaddle stitch with gate foldsRisographEdition of 500 Workshopping at WSW is essentially a catalog of workshops held at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY — except the workshops are from 1983–1999, and some of them never ran. The staple-bound pamphlet is part of…
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The Streets Are Very Quiet
The Streets Are Very Quiet(You Look Like The Right Type, Book 2)Mark Addison Smith2022Printed at Fort Orange Press 448 pages9 × 6 × 2 in. closedSmyth-sewn, case-boundDigital printing inside with foil-stamped coverFirst edition of 150 The Streets Are Very Quiet belongs to a series of daily drawings titled You Look Like The Right Type, which…
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American Weather
American WeatherMary Margaret Alvarado and Corie J. Cole2024NewLights Press 64 pages9.25 × 7 in. closedLink-stitched softcover with detachable jacketRisograph inside and letterpress coverEdition of 200 American Weather is a collaboration between writer Mary Margaret Alvarado, artist Corie J. Cole, and publisher Aaron Cohick. Alvarado first published the titular essay in 2015, in the immediate aftermath…
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Last Pages
Last PagesRahel Zoller2024Edition Taube Perfect-bound softcover200 pages6.25 × 9.25 in. closedOffset printing Review by Michael Hampton In her extended collection of illustrated final page samples, torn from discarded books found in various street book swaps, recycling bins and gutters of European cities during the summer of 2022, Rahel Zoller presents the reader with an extended…
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Melt
MeltPhilip Zimmermann2023Spaceheater Editions Smyth-sewn softcover with exposed spine; separate z-fold colophonHinged metal container with clear plastic window200 pages3.25 × 5.125 × 1 in. closedUV-cured inkjet printing with foil stamping on front cover and container labelEdition of 175 Melt is the second in what Douglas Adams might call Philip Zimmermann’s increasingly inaccurately named trilogy of books…
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Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen PrinterAmos Paul Kennedy, Jr.Design by Gail Anderson and Joe NewtonPhotography by Aundre LarrowForeword by Austin Kleon and essays by Myron M. Beasley and Kelly WaltersLetterform Archive2024 Smyth-sewn hardcover with exposed spine292 pages9 × 12 in. closedOffset printing Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer was published by the Letterform Archive in…
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Prisoners’ Inventions
Prisoners’ InventionsAngeloTemporary Services (Brett Bloom and Marc Fischer)Edited by Mairead Case and designed by Partner & PartnersHalf Letter Press2020 8.5 × 5.5 in. closed200 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverDigital printing Prisoners’ Inventions is what the title suggests: a compendium of devices designed, built, and used by people incarcerated in US prisons. First published in 2003 with WhiteWalls, this…
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Pictures From the Outside: Interview with Chantal Zakari
Pictures From the OutsideChantal ZakariEighteen Publications2023 136 pages5.875 × 8.25 in. closedOffset printingEdition of 500 For Pictures From the Outside, Chantal Zakari asked her incarcerated adult students if there was a significant place they would like to see photographed, and then attempted to make the photographs they requested. The premise seems simple, but the vicissitudes…
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本の本の本
Antoine Lefebvre本の本の本 2021Antoine Lefebvre Editions 21 × 10.5 in. open48 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverOffset printing “The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.” Sol LeWitt, “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art,” Art Forum, 1967. 本の本の本 is a conceptual photographic artists’ book stemming from Antoine Lefebvre’s travels to Japan. Each duplex-printed page in the perfect-bound paperback has nine square photographs of…
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Controlled Burn
Top-down view of Controlled Burn’s enclosure, which mimics a matchbox. Title text is an illustrated logotype with a burning match replacing the ‘u’ in ‘burn’. The background is red with flame motif.
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