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200510879Newark VT: Janus Press 2005. Broadside. Broadside. 20" x 14." Limited edition one of 75 copies. Signed by Van Vliet. Pulp painting screenprinted by Ellen Dorn Levitt. Johnson's poem printed in 12 pt Rudolph Koch's Wallau. Fine. <br /> <br /> A striking and complex broadside on Van Vliet's pulp painted sheet Levitt has screenprinted letters from Hildegard von Bingen's lingua ignota secret alphabet. Ruth Fine Janus Press — Fifty Years p.60. Buchtel The Art of Paper p. 73. Janus Press unknown
20079781Newark VT: Janus Press 2007. Wrappers. Fine binding. Oblong octavo. 26 ll. illus. Limited edition one of 150 numbered copies. Van Vliet's woven strip binding contains 12 printed leaves alternating with 14 illusion polycarbonate and flexible vinyl leaves all laid into a vinyl wrapper and housed in acrylic slipcase. Some of the vinyl leaves have started to break down their oils leaching into and discolor the paper leaves an unexpected and according to Van Vliet perfectly fitting result. <br /> <br /> This book is referential of the author's earlier Hermetic Waste Gefn Press 1986 that was issued the summer after the Chernobyl disaster. She writes in an artist statement: "The collagraph prints in Hermetic Waste were derived from alchemical engravings — here in Waste Incant the calligraphic line drawings are derived from science illustrations in children's text books. Redrawn and merging the pictorial 'facts' depict a disrupted 'nature.' Poetic texts sit inside the imagery functioning as an integrated caption. They describe processes by which toxic material enters into the environment. The back of each page lists hazardous wastes. Plastic interleaving features in both books referencing materials used in the storage of waste. How little has changed in twenty years." <br /> <br /> In her Grolier Club catalog to the collection of Robert J. Rubin Yvonne Korshak echoes and expands Johanknecht's statement of Waste Incant: "The book in its acrylic case is a statement about the storage of nuclear waste in plastic. The line drawings are derived from children's textbooks redrawn to show a disrupted nature. The toxic wastes listed partially alphabetically are printed on both sides of the embossed paper each page separated by a plastic sheet. The unstable and hence inappropriate and hazardous use of plastic to contain toxic waste is emphasized by the diverse deformations of each of the plastic sheets. <br /> <br /> "How fascinating that the book is immaculate and glamorous while its topic - waste - implies what's dirty and distasteful. The ironic disjunction dramatizes the tension between the allure of easy labor magical communications and other seductions of our high tech culture and the tarnished other side of the coin deadly byproducts with tenacious half-lives. The book uses the very products it condemns. We can't do without it can we" Yvonne Korshak and Robert J. Rubin. Beyond the Text: Artists' Books from the Collection of Robert J. Ruben. Grolier Club 2010. Janus Press unknown
200310891Newark VT: Janus Press 2003. Wrappers. Fine binding. 12mo. 2 16 ll. illus. Limited edition one of 150 numbered copies. Double-spine structure within tri-fold binding of stiff printed wrappers in slipcase. Title page and colophon leaves are bracketed by a beautiful translucent tan paper made by Van Vliet from pulp prepared with seawater by Bernie Vinzani. The 16 numbered leaves are printed on the recto only and alternate with odd-numbered leaves bound on the right and even on the left creating a beautiful back-and-forth choreography in order to navigate through the book before the reader reaches Van Vliet's photograph of Governor's Bay on the South Island of New Zealand. All housed in paper-covered slipcase with spine label. <br /> <br /> A wonderful book by Van Vliet that showcases Loney's evocative lyrics capturing a sense of place at a moment in time but also a sense of being-it is introspective and aware. A beautiful poem wonderfully presented by Van Vliet in a binding that asks the reader to slow down and approach it on its terms. Fine Ruth. Janus Press - Fifty Years p. 59. Janus Press unknown
201510892Newark VT: Janus Press 2015. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Octavo. 42 pp. illus; 42 pp. illus. pop-up errata; 80 pp. illus. Limited edition each is from an edition of 140 to 150 numbered copies 115 of which were thus gathered together and wrapped in a handmade paper-over-boards chemise with a single bifolium "Notes on Trio" laid in. Housed in slipcase with printed paper title label on the spine. Each signed by the author-Eclipses is additionally signed by Van Vliet. Variously bound and illustrated with a lithograph and digital prints by Van Vliet. Fine copies. <br /> <br /> A wonderful gathering of poetry that showcases many aspects of Van Vliet's design and decoration: from Kinsey's work with Van Vliet's beautiful illustrations of the moon and Ellen Dorn Levitt's diagrams of eclipses to Haswell's more playful design including numerous different papers and inclusion as well as the letterpress printing of the poems both in type and her own handwriting scanned and made into polymer plates to Hesse's four-season Cosmos that is bound in-the-round so that once that last page is turned the reader is looking at the first begging the question: what is first and what is last Janus Press unknown
2017315421Newark Vt: The Janus Press 2017. Number 20 of 25 copies. 25 images printed on Strathmore Cotton paper with an Epsom Sure color using Ultra Chrome HD ink. 8vo. Leporello binding cover paper is Barcham green Martian Red inb chemise. As new. Number 20 of 25 copies. 25 images printed on Strathmore Cotton paper with an Epsom Sure color using Ultra Chrome HD ink. 8vo. The Janus Press unknown books
2020x-3030417158Springer Nature 2020. Hardcover. New. 840 pages. 10.00x7.00x1.81 inches. Springer Nature hardcover
20199784Newark VT: Janus Press 2019. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Quarto. 6 pp. illus. Limited edition one of 120 numbered copies. Bound in a digital print on heavily textured paper over boards. Colophon inside the front cover the textblock is a 5-panel accordion foldout: the first three panels comprise a large vitreograph print by Van Vliet printed by Judith O'Rourke at Littleton Studios; this is followed by two panels each containing a poem by Ensing letterpress printed by Andrew Miller-Brown. The rear pastedown is a foldout digital print. All housed in a paper portfolio with author title and "Janus Press" on the front. A fine copy. <br /> <br /> Born in the Netherlands Ensing moved to New Zealand as a young girl. As a poet she has become a voice of New Zealand and these two evocative poems "Muriwai" and "At Muriwai" capture both a sense of place but also a certain transience of time. Beautifully illustrated by Van Vliet's images. A book that can be leafed through or folded out to striking effect displaying Van Vliet's images of the reef at Muriwai in New Zealand. Janus Press unknown
20139775Newark VT: Janus Press 2013. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. 6-1/2" x 7." Limited edition one of 120 copies. Accordion fold with 8 panels 4 of them are fold-down pages. Each of the four page-spreads include letterpress text in various typefaces and colors which fold-down expanding the canvas of words sayings and accusations including a catalog of U.S. Senators and Representatives of the 111th Congress who became lobbyists—a list that fills the fold-down page in a small font; these opposite a lithograph by Van Vliet each lithograph is titled by the top word on the opposite page: Propagandist Lobbyist Banker Joe Public. Bound in gold paper repeated printed with the word "Greed" and all housed in gold slipcase. A fine copy. <br /> <br /> In a contemporary newspaper article in the Burlington Free Press Candace Page relates an interview with Van Vliet: "She picks up dummy of GREED a slim volume that will sit inside a glittery cover of gold paper. It opens like an accordion to display four Van Vliet black-and-white lithographs of distorted faces: A banker a lobbyist a newscaster she says 'and this one on the end the sap John Q. Public us.'" <br /> <br /> Van Vliet continues in the Page interview: "The word 'greed' will be printed multiple times on the cover in heavy unevenly inked type as though it were printed contemptuously by some greedy person with no respect for the written word. The paper is not handmade — that would be too good for the book. Instead it is 'slick nasty machine-made paper' she says. The edges of the gold cover will be sharp 'because greed is not a comfortable subject.'" There is a wonderful irony that the lithographs employed in Greed were originally drawn for an edition of Kafka decades before that just weren't quite right for the project. Here they are perfect! <br /> <br /> This is a striking book a political book one might say an angry and defiant book. Van Vliet's politics being informed by the McCarthy era during which she was a student she admits to having distrusted the powerful ever since. This edition sold out very quickly and is now rare in commerce. A book that was is and will always be relevant. Janus Press unknown
200821829Newark VT: The Janus Press 2008. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies the entire edition. Very fine copy bookplate of James Copley. 4to illustrations and mounted paper samples original unprinted wrappers printed paper cover label accompanying the book and laid in are a map of The Loose Valley folded to 5 panels 19 b/w photographs in a printed paper portfolio and 12 paper samples in a printed paper portfolio publisher's linen over boards tray case. Very fine copy bookplate of James Copley. The Janus Press unknown books
20089780Newark VT: Janus Press 2008. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. Quarto. 65 3 pp. illus specimens. Limited edition one of 200 numbered copies. Letterpress printed from polymer plates on Finale paper the last paper made at Hayle Mill. Longstitch binding in wrappers with printed paper title label on the front cover. Housed in a clamshell box containing a letterpress printed three color map of "Loose Valley 1856 with the Mills on Loose Stream"; a portfolio with 19 photographs reprinted from the Hayle Mill Archives; and a portfolio of sample papers. A fine copy. <br /> <br /> This remarkable work of scholarship delves into the history of papermaking in Kent along the Loose Stream and the history of this particular firm started by John Pine and sold before a decade had passed to John Green whose descendants would remain at the helm generation after generation until it closed in 1987. At which time it was the "last industrial handmade mill of its kind in commercial operation in Britain" p. 60. But this book is so much more: to look at the care and presentation of this history it is as much an ode to paper and papermaking as it is a mere history. Van Vliet is an artist whose relationship with paper is distinctive among her peers—from her pulp painting and paper making to the fact that most all the books from the Janus Press are bound in thoughtfully designed paper bindings the structure of many being her own invention paper is part of every design aspect. The 16th century epigraph speaks volumes: "I prayse the man that first did paper make the only thing that sets all vertues forth: It shoes newe bookes and keepes old workes awake much more of price than all this world is worth. . . ." It's fitting that this history is printed on paper from the Hayle Mill with a watermark specially designed by Van Vliet for the final paper made at the mill. Janus Press unknown
200321728Newark VT: The Janus Press 2003. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies the entire edition. Very fine copy with a small adhesive shelf label on the slipcase. Oblong 8vo photograph original printed wrappers publisher's slipcase. Very fine copy with a small adhesive shelf label on the slipcase. The Janus Press unknown books
200621838Newark VT: The Janus Press 2006. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies signed by Claire Van Vliet the binder and the printer the entire edition. "The Gospel of Mary is a fragment of a Gnostic gospel of early second century Christianity that focuses on Mary Magdelene as the 'beloved disciple' of Christ who specially understands his message and conveys her understanding of this to the male disciples." Set in Adobe Neue Hammer Unciale and Monotype Plantin and printed on calendered Barcham Green Boxley with the assistance of Andrew Miller-Brown the cover and center piece were pulp painted by Claire van Vliet with Katie MacGregor in Whiting Maine who also made the pop-up papers. Audrey Holden executed the woven binding with Barcham Green Cairo with boxes in DeWint by Holden birch trays by Richard Holmquist. Very fine copy. 4to printed decorations pop-up centerpiece of colored papers on a base sheet pulp painted by Van Vliet original wrappers pulp painted as a cloud also by Van Vliet publisher's clamshell box with Baltic birch stays. Very fine copy. The Janus Press unknown books
2006229581Newark Vt: Janus Press 2006. No. 26 of 150 copies. Translated from the Greek by Karen King with commentaries by Rosemary Radford Ruether. 40 4 pages printed on calendered Barcham Green Boxley with a central popup of "the journey of the soul" on a double-page pulp painted base sheet by Claire van Vliet with Katie MacGregor. 1 vols. 11-1/2 x 10 inches. Woven binding by Audrey Holden using "clous" cover sheets pulp painted by Van Vliet and MacGregor; in clamshell box of birch trays by Richard Holmquist lined in DeWint by Holden. As new. No. 26 of 150 copies. Translated from the Greek by Karen King with commentaries by Rosemary Radford Ruether. 40 4 pages printed on calendered Barcham Green Boxley with a central popup of "the journey of the soul" on a double-page pulp painted base sheet by Claire van Vliet with Katie MacGregor. 1 vols. 11-1/2 x 10 inches. Janus Press unknown books
2016121407Edinburgh University Press. New. 2016. Hardcover. 1474407498 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- with a bonus offer-- . Edinburgh University Press hardcover
