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An Inflammatory Guide to Banned and Challenged Books, 2005 Published for Banned Books Week, this letterpress-printed accordion is bound in a matchbook cover foil-stamped "Open mind before striking." It features books banned and challenged under categories like racism, nudity, or homosexual content with quotes about censorship and intellectual freedom. A collaboration with Sweet Pea Flaherty of King's Bookstore, An Inflammatory Guide was featured in American Booksellers Association newsletter Bookselling This Week. Unnumbered edition: 300 | $15 includes $5 donation for Reading is Fundamental |
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Four Elements, 2005 A pinwheel spins text that explores the four elements and the ongoing battle between love and strife. Pinned to a pencil stamped Be in readiness for favorable winds, Four Elements is letterpress printed with handset type in six colors. Packaged as a step-by-step kit, the pinwheel travels safely and inspires great pinwheel-making memories during assembly. Edition: 100 | $50 with handmade metal stand |
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Spiceography, 2002 Spiceography is a set of broadsides printed letterpress on handmade paper that compares spice and type, exploring their rich histories as incredibly valuable commodities. Each broadside is printed on handmade paper containing its featured spice and utilizes multiple letterpress techniques: photopolymer, handset foundry and wood type, vintage ornaments, wire printing, monoprinting, linoleum and collage. Deluxe sets are housed in hickory boxes, suggestive of shipping crates that carried type and spices. Deluxe edition of 7 with map, sold out. The complete set can be viewed at Northwestern University Special Collections or Multnomah County Library in Portland. Individual broadsides are available. |
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A Proverbial Book, 2002 A selection of proverbs are amusingly paired with hand-colored illustrations from a 1930s vocabulary primer. The text is printed letterpress with photopolymer plates on Fabriano Mediovalis. Based on a medieval structure, the book is sewn on cords and covered in Brazil wood-dyed chamois with brass clasps. Each cover in the edition features a vintage cigarette card. Edition: 40 | $150 |
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Lewises & Clarks, 2004 Lewises and Clarks profiles extraordinary pioneers that also deserve recognition in the midst of the anniversary year of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Many of those featured are women and African Americans. The covers are bound in cutch-dyed chamois, and the text is letterpress printed with photopolymer plates on coffee-dyed Fabriano Mediovalis. Edition: 15 | $250 |
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Collectors' Tales, 2001 A varied edition, Collectors' Tales examines the obsession to collect, identify and display objects of desire. Each handmade box features a deck of letterpress collectors cards with one object from each collector — ranging from a beetle to a pair of handcuffs — displayed on a velvet pillow. Art historian Annie Morse's essay examining the nature of collecting is letterpress printed on handmade paper with scratchboard illustrations by Susan Estelle Kwas. Edition: 15 | $500 |
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