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Tears Are Everywhere
Tears Are EverywhereKira Lynn Cain andEllen Robinette2026Buckman Publishing 36 pages8.25 × 10.25 in. closedPerfect-bound hardcoverPrint-on-demand ink jet From its front cover, where the hand-lettered title merges playfully with line illustrations that give way to an explosion of watercolor, Tears Are Everywhere might be mistaken for a children’s book. The format inside is similar, too. The…
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RAGE PEN
RAGE PENDavid Blackmore and Michael HamptonFolium2025 108 pages8.25 × 5.83 in. closedPerfect-bound softcover with perforated fore-edgesXerox printing with embossed coverEdition of 100 In 2017 artist David Blackmore turned his studio into a rage pen (rage room for American readers) and invited anonymous collaborators to vent their frustration by destroying a symbolic object. Blackmore documented the…
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One More Day
One More Day: A Collection of CollectionsSonny Meno-Gutierrez2026 72 pages8.5 × 8.5 in. closedPerfect bindingDigital printing One More Day is an omnibus edition of photo series by Sonny Meno-Gutierrez. Some of the projects already exist as separate photobooks, but they function differently within One More Day. The book is, as the subtitle puts it, “a…
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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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Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings
Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate ReadingsJanelle Rebel2024The Everyday Press Perfect-bound softcover with French folds353 pages5.25 × 7.75 in. closedLetterpress cover, offset inside Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings is a bibliography of bibliographies. Not just any bibliographies, though — author Janelle Rebel is both an artist and a librarian, and the collected bibliographies reside at that same…
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Two Blank Books
The Collected Poems of Donald J. TrumpBrad Freeman20245.75 × 6.5 in. closedSingle-signature clothbound hardcover40 pagesLaser printingEdition of 50 I Have Nothing to Say, and I am Saying ItLandry Butler20246.25 × 9.25 in. closedPerfect-bound hardcover200 pagesDigital printing This month’s review departs from my usual format, just as November 2024 has been an unusual month. I am reviewing two books together, and the books are, not…
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Tender to Empress
Tender to EmpressMaureen AlsopWet Cement Press2022 8 × 8 in. closed114 pagesPerfect-bound hardcoverInk jet Tender to Empress is a collection of visual poems by poet, artist, and psychologist, Maureen Alsop. These digital collage-poems began as a gallery installation, but the book has its own dynamics, thoughtfully pairing pages into spreads and sequencing the poems toward…
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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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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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One Star
Zak JensenOne Star2023 4 × 6 in. closed124 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverDigital printing Zak Jensen’s self-published book One Star collects one-star customer reviews of seasonal affective disorder lamps interspersed with stock photographs of the Sun. A bookmark accompanies the book; on one side: the title, edition size, artist’s name, and date of publication; on the other: a…
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