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2009 · 85454 — Charlottesville: Virginia Arts of the Book Center Press 2009. Limited Edition number 4/50 on last page. Hardcover. Very good. Jeff Pike. Format approximately 4 inches by 6.75 inches. Unpaginated 28 pages. No dust jacket present may not have been issued. Signed by both the author and illustrator on the title page. Very rare early published compendium by emerging poetic force and award-winning illustrator. Contents include: After the Party On Plenitude Metropolitan the Consolations of Philosophy After Love Charlie Chaplin and Nineteenth Symphony. Handsome and well made example of a finely produced specialty volume. This volume was printed on the letterpress and handbound at Virginia Arts of the Book Center Charlottesville in the summer of 2009. The text was set in Cambria and printed from polymer plates made by Boxcar Press of Syracuse NY. The paper used was Hahnemuhle photo rag 100% cotton smooth. Ryan Fox is a graduate of the University of Missouri and received his MFA from the University of Virginia. The poems in this volume first appears in New Orleans Review Columbia Caketrain and New Ohio Review. Jeff Pike is a Professor of Communication Design program of the College & Graduate School of art Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Washington University in St. Lois. He worked in Charlottesville while on sabbatical. Ryan Fox attended St. Louis University High School where he was an editor of Sisyphus and a frequent contributor to the magazine and also features editor of the Prep News. Fox was a 2016 winner of the Discovery Poetry Context. He earned an MFA from the University of Virginia where he was poetry editor of Meridian and a JD from Fordham University School of Law where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Intellectual Property Media & Entertainment Law Journal. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker Boston Review and others. A member of the New York State bar. Jeff Pike earned a BFA degree from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA in Visual Communication from Syracuse University. Pike joined the faculty of the School of Art at Washington University in 1983. He has directed the Illustration program and in 1993 he was appointed Associate Dean responsible for the undergraduate programs. Pike was appointed Dean of the School of Art in 1999 a position he held through July 2008. Pike's professional work has appeared in numerous print and broadcast venues. He has worked for major advertising agencies and clients. His work has been recognized in Print Art Direction Creativity and Adweek magazines. He also has won Addy's and Flair awards for his creative work in advertising. In 2010 Pike published a boxed letterpress book of illustrations and works of fiction by two authors based upon the letters of Heloise and Abelard titled From Letters to Fictions: Heloise & Abelard. Most recently Pike's work has been accepted into the 53rd Annual New York Society of Illustrators exhibition. Pike has lectured at a number of schools and universities. He has twice been a resident at the Cité International des Arts Paris. He has led abroad programs in Belgium France and Italy. As dean he has traveled throughout Asia. Pike has been a board member for several art organizations most recently the National Association of Schools of Art and Design NASAD. Virginia Arts of the Book Center Press hardcover