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2017__0714874736Phaidon Inc Ltd 2017. Hardcover. New. 271 pages. 11.00x8.50x1.25 inches. Phaidon Inc Ltd hardcover
2010DADAX1160753113Kessinger Publishing 2010-03-19. paperback. New. 6.00x1.26x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing paperback
2010DADAX1168156939Kessinger Publishing 2010-09-10. paperback. New. 6.00x1.26x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing paperback
200510451Newark VT: Jansu Press 2005. Broadside. Broadside. 24" x 19-1/2." Limited edition one of 100 copies. Base paper is Barcham Green's DeWint with collage of Chiyogami Twinrocker McGregor Vinzani and Janus papers. Printed in brown yellow and mauve. Fine. <br /> <br /> A striking broadside adapted from a quilt by Lucy Mooney Gees Bend Alabama 1935 reproduced in a book of postcards published by Chronicle Books in 2004. Fine Janus Press — Fifty Years p. 60. Jansu Press unknown
200610457Newark VT: Janus Press 2006. Broadside. Broadside. 22-1/2" x 15." Edition unknown. Collage broadside with a facsimile of the U.S. Constitution on a cream laid paper across which is laid the printed line: "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!" Beneath the facsimile is a description. A fine copy or nearly so. <br /> <br /> This was printed by Van Vliet and Ellen Dorn Levitt at the Janus Press for the 219th Anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. It relays an unfortunate outburst by then President George W. Bush in an Oval Office meeting between Republican Congressional leaders discussing the renewal of the USA Patriot Act in November of 2005. And while this was a moment in time the sentiment remains relevant in terms of the continued degradation of the founding document in the subsequent decade. Janus Press unknown
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
202510907Gefn Janus and Plowboy Presses 2025. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. Accordion. 9-1/2" x 4-3/4" closed. 12 pp. Limited edition one of 100 copies. Signed by Johankneckt Van Vliet and Miller-Brown at the colophon. As issued in stiff wrappers of Barcham Green India Office illustrated with an image of Bach's last known musical score the unfinished Fugue of The Art of the Fugue. The accordion style structure designed by Van Vliet folds into 12 unnumbered pages that read parallel to the folds recto and verso. All housed in a handmade paper slipcase with "fugal" printed on the spine. A fine copy. <br /> <br /> A wonderful collaboration between Susan Johanknecht Claire Van Vliet and Andrew Miller-Brown. Inspired by Bach Fugues Johanknecht's poem is printed on the recto of accordion-fold. As Van Vliet and Miller-Brown were puzzling over the project last fall it became apparent that the lines could be read aloud in any order. This morphed into the accumulating text on the verso. True to the musical definition of a fugue this presentation of the poem develops through repetition and interweaving. A wonderful homage to the musical form and to Bach in particular; all the while developing into something that is not merely an homage. Gefn, Janus, and Plowboy Presses 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
202010966Newark VT: Janus Press 2020. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. Octavo. 2 71 3 pp. illus. Limited edition one of 120 numbered copies. Sewn longstitch with three different colors of thread into St. Armand Papeterie's Canal paper with small printed embellishment on front cover. Letterpress printed in black and brick red on Canaletto paper. Strikingly illustrated with photographs ink knife images and collages all of which are digitally printed many are folding. In card slipcase with printed paper label on the spine. A fine copy. <br /> <br /> A remarkable collection Luck's lyrics are by turns searching defiant and resigned but always personal and human "I thought when I threw away the bus transfers / I used again and again / I would lose this turbulence / in the coming and going / from here to there." A wonderful book of poetry wonderfully illustrated by Luck; and here beautifully designed and printed in the inimitable fashion of the Janus Press. And few Janus Press books are issued without some novel playfulness or unique element to their structure. Here a three-leaf section with short "grook" poems one on top and one on the bottom of each page that has a horizontal cut across the middle so the top and bottom of each leaf turn independently allowing the reader to navigate these several poems in a less prescriptive manner. Janus Press unknown
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
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
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
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
