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[JANUS PRESS]. McPHERSON, SandraBiblio.com

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[Janus Press] Van Vliet, Claire (lithographs)Biblio.com

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. 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.'" 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! 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

Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA · États-Unis660,00 $US≈ 558,43 €

[Janus Press] Green, MaureenBiblio.com

Papermaking at Hayle Mill 1808-1987

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. 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

Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA · États-Unis880,00 $US≈ 744,57 €

[Janus Press] [Plowboy Press] Aratus | art by Claire Van Vliet; translated by Stanley Lombardo; commentary by Mark BreenBiblio.com

Phaenomena / Sky Sign

9788Newark and Burke VT: Janus Press and Plowboy Press 2022. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Folio. 4 58 4 pp. plates maps illus. Limited edition one of 120 numbered copies. Letterpress printed on Barcham Green Boxley by Andrew Miller-Brown of Plowboy Press. The frontispiece is Durer's northern celestial map. There are 28 illustrations of the constellations from Caspar Vopel's 1534 woodcuts and eight full-page original digital prints of weather by Claire Van Vliet based on her pulp paintings. Additionally there are numerous in-text illustrations some mounted some printed. This is sewn longstitch into pulp-painting covered boards by Katie MacGregor; pocket inside the front cover contains prospectus and Translator's Introduction and Notes. The book is wrapped in a linen-covered chemise lined with Durer's 1515 celestial maps all housed in maple and birchwood slipcase with a lasercut title on the spine. A fine copy. Aratus was born in Soli in present day Turkey in about 315 BCE. Educated in Athens he eventually made his way to the Macedonian court where it is believed he wrote the Phaenomena. It describes in verse the constellations their rotation in the night sky throughout the year various other natural signs and their uses as a calendar and weather forecasting tool for farmers and sailors. For Aratus these sky signs from the constellation Ursa Major to the smallest mouse tossing straw with its paws represent a gift from Zeus to guide human endeavor if only we would take notice. The Phaenomena was enormously popular in its time and afterwards. It inspired many translations some with a liberal dose of revisions and additions as well as many commentaries starting in at least the second century BCE. This edition of the Phaenomena features a verse translation from the Greek by Stanley Lombardo and a new commentary for the modern reader by Mark Breen senior meteorologist and director of the planetarium at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury Vermont. And while it is easy to get caught up in the interesting particulars of the book and its history as well as the particulars of this edition Van Vliet Miller-Brown and their collaborators have created an edition that has reinvigorated this millennia-old navigational and practical treatise. This edition is full of wonder. MacGregor's pulp painted covers are haunting and exquisitely suited for the work. And further the book designed with a mind towards early scholarly works with Aratus's text surrounded by commentary and illustration is a joy to leaf through every page spread is visually engaging from the early section on the constellations to the section on weather that is elevated by Van Vliet's art. After 70 years of bookmaking Van Vliet has not stopped pushing forward in her design and vision. Janus Press and Plowboy Press unknown

Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA · États-Unis2 750,00 $US≈ 2 326,78 €

[Janus Press] Hulme, Keri | art by Claire Van VlietBiblio.com

The Silences Between Moeraki Conversations

9785Newark VT: Janus Press 2016. Wrappers. Fine binding. Quarto. 114 pp. frontis. illus. Limited edition one of 120 numbered copies. Signed by Hulme and Van Vliet. Bound using a woven strip binding designed by Claire Van Vliet; the covers are a dynamic pulp-painting with a vitreograph frontispiece with five additional illustrations that were digitally composed by Van Vliet and are original archival inkjet prints on handmade paper; these seem to blend photography and Van Vliet's pulp painting creating a striking and textured result. This is accompanied by a small octavo glossary with eight letterpress pages and fold-out photograph. All laid into a clamshell box of paper boards with acrylic-painted fore-edge and moon inset on the spine; map of Moeraki mounted inside the upper cover; maple and tamarack sides. Housed in slipcase with printed title label. A fine copy. Among the most ambitious projects of the press it is one of the largest at 114 pages and the longest projects of the Press taking 20 years from contact to completion. Each of the 6 "Conversations" are printed on different handmade papers many of which have varying leaf sizes. The poetry by Booker Prize-winning author of Bone People Keri Hulme rewards attention and patience. Similarly Van Vliet's books require more attention from the reader and Silences is no exception. For instance in one "conversation" she varies the page size and relationship—some leaves being half-page strips on the lower portion of the book can be paged through while sequences of cutouts and illustrations along the top remain are turned less frequently creating a constancy. Even the form of the book can be altered: the page-spread illustrations for instance can be pulled forward at the inner fold making what was two dimensional into three-dimensional. One can do this with all the illustrations simultaneously creating what Van Vliet describes in her Notes for Press Patrons "a three dimensional wagon wheel display." This book is a beautiful choreography between text image and form—all elements in harmony. Buchtel John A. The Art of Paper: Claire Van Vliet and the Janus Press: Papermaking Collaborations 2024. Janus Press unknown

Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA · États-Unis2 750,00 $US≈ 2 326,78 €

[Janus Press] Johanknecht, SusanBiblio.com

Waste Incant

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. 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." 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. "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

Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA · États-Unis330,00 $US≈ 279,21 €

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