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Bookbinding & Book Arts
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B3317. Handmade Books For a Healty Planet / Kapuscinski
Handmade Books for a Healthy Planet: Sixteen Earth-Friendly Projects from Around the World by Susan Kapuscinski. 2010. 132pp. 8.5" x 8.5". Paper
This book of projects for your kids or grandkids explores the fascinating world of handmade books. They will learn about history around the world while they make their own books with earth-friendly recycled materials. All that is needed are cereal boxes, grocery bags, scissors, and glue stick. The step-by-step instructions include: Wish Scroll from Ethiopia, Medieval Book of Hours, Time Line Accordion book from Central America and Mexico, Book of Haiku from Japan. Good for classroom instruction or just fun.
Available May 2010.
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B3207. Surface of Meaning / Bringhurst
The Surface of Meaning: Books and Book Design in Canada by Robert Bringhurst. 2008. 240pp. 9.25"x11". Hardcover $59.95
A survey of Canadian books and book design, including books for Native Americans in their own languages & bilingual books, small press books, university press books, private press books and trade books. Each of the four sections of the book starts with a brief essay by Bringhurst: What's a Book - and Why? Transparency, tangibility, complexity, and culture. The Invisible Book: Literary structures before, beneath, and beside the European colonization. The Echo of Tangibility: Constructing culture from the Second World War to the Digital Divide. Stills from a Typographic Movie: Canadian books from 1980 to the present day. (This is a presentation of books in codex form, rather than a survey of artist's books.) A few, such as Canadian artist Nick Bantock's Sabine's Notebook, will be familiar from their USA editions.
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B3208. Everywhere Being is Dancing / Bringhurst
Everywhere Being is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking by Robert Bringhurst. 2009. 352pp. 5.25"x8.5". Paper
The companion volume to The Tree of Meaning (B2898, $17.95). Everywhere Being is Dancing collects twenty essays under the subversive principle that "everything is related to everything else." His studies build upon this sense of basic connection, involving the work of poets, musicians, artists and philosophers as varied as Aristotle, J.S. Bach, Glenn Gould, Dennis Lee, Don McKay, Joan Miró, Plato, Ezra Pound, Skaay and Gary Snyder. Includes Bringhurst's own translations of the fragments of Parmenides and Cháálatsoh's Navajo narrative "The Origin of Horses."
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B3232. Leather Books / Karli Frigge
Leather Books: An Illustrated Handbook by Karli Frigge. 1997. 90pp. 5.5"x9.75". Edition of 370 copies. Paper $58.00.
This manual presents instruction and drawings for two methods of binding. In each, the signatures are sewn over leather strips and then pulled through the boards. Parts of the leather thongs are visible with each binding. The bindings use traditional binding techniques such as rounding and backing a spine and making a making a hollow. Includes 75 instructional drawings.
The fore edge is not trimmed - these are uncut sheets that will need to be separated.
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B3241. Wedding Invitations / Cegielski
Wedding Invitations by Jennifer Cegielski. 2004. 158pp. 6.75"x6.75". Hardcover $19.95. SALE.
Like most wedding books, this is directed to the bride-to-be, but it also makes a great manual for calligraphers new to addressing and designing invitations. Presents both traditional and modern designs, details the many different types of inks, papers, & printing methods available, and discusses ceremony cards, response cards, maps, & other enclosures. The text covers all aspects of invitation etiquette, including properly wording inner and outer envelopes. There is a lot of good information in this beautiful book.
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B3306. Art of the Woodcut / Salaman
The Art of the Woodcut: Masterworks from the 1920’s by Malcolm Salaman. 2010. 192pp. 8-3/8"x11". Paper $19.95. Now available
The first printed illustrations books were woodcuts. In the 20th century woodcuts were often used for illustrations in fine printing and special editions. This survey of woodcut illustration from the 1920’s has nearly 200 striking images includincuding a few pages of two-color woodcuts and a few full-color pages. Artists include Rockwell Kent, Rudolph Ruzicka, Eric Gill, Willam Zorach, and JJ Lankes. Reprint of The Woodcut of Today at Home and Abroad. 1927.
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B3221. Thread that Binds by Pamela Leutz HARDBOUND
The Thread That Binds by Pamela Train Leutz. 2010. 352pp. 6"x9". Hardcover $55.00.
Comprised of 21 interviews of independent bookbinders in a quest to learn about the lives of representatives of this field. Each chapter tells a different story. You discover the challenges, successes, and "common threads" among each of the binders. Includes images offering a closer look at these bookbinders' studios, as well as photographs of the bookbinders themselves. Each binder is introduced to us first by Pamela Leutz; the interview follows. A special interview with bookbinder Don Etherington is included. An excellent book for those considering working on their own in the field of bookbinding.
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B3222. Thread that Binds by Pamela Leutz SIGNATURES
The Thread that Binds by Pamela Leutz. 2010. 352pp. 6"x9". Unbound signatures.
UNBOUND SIGNATURES
Comprised of 21 interviews of independent bookbinders in a quest to learn about the lives of representatives of this field. Each chapter tells a different story. You discover the challenges, successes, and "common threads" among each of the binders. Includes images offering a closer look at these bookbinders' studios, as well as, photographs of the bookbinders themselves. Each binder is introduced to us first by Pamela Leutz, the interview follows. A special interview with bookbinder Don Etherington is included. An excellent book for those considering working on their own in the field of bookbinding.
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B3223. Thread that Binds by Pamela Leutz PAPER
The Thread that Binds by Pamela Leutz. 2010. 352pp. 6"x9". Paperback
Comprised of 21 interviews of independent bookbinders in a quest to learn about the lives of representatives of this field. Each chapter tells a different story. You discover the challenges, successes, and "common threads" among each of the binders. Includes images offering a closer look at these bookbinders' studios, as well as, photographs of the bookbinders themselves. Each binder is introduced to us first by Pamela Leutz, the interview follows. A special interview with bookbinder Don Etherington is included. An excellent book for those considering working on their own in the field of bookbinding.
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B3229. Bookbinding and Conservation HC / Don Etherington.
Bookbinding and Conservation: A Sixty-Year Odyssey of Art and Craft by Don Etherington. 2010. 180pp. 8.5"x11". Hardcover $49.95.
Don Etherington began bookbinding at the age of thirteen and went on to study bookbinding and design at the London School of Printing. This autobiography takes you through his lifelong journey of bookbinding and conservation, including his teaching and his journey from Europe to the US, where he became Training Officer and Assistant Restoration Officer at the Library of Congress in 1970. This account of his personal and professional life includes his generous contribution to the conservation effort in Florence, Italy, following the great flood that caused incredible damage to thousands of books. Etherington's work can be found in collections worldwide. Numerous personal photographs and a gallery of Etherington's fine bindings.
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