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  • Collection: Peter and Donna Thomas Books

A82. The Tarantella Rose

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27 x 19 cm (10 5/8” x 7 5/8”), 15 pages, 82 copies.

Binding: Modified limp vellum binding using paper handmade by Peter Thomas. Printed pages are sewn onto paper laces that are threaded into slits in the covers. Title on label on cover. Housed in…

E1. DBIJEP

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76 x 76 mm (3” x 3”), 7 Pages, 20 copies.

Binding: Coptic bound with black paper dust jacket. End sheets red. Held by a red paper sleeve. Paper: White, handmade by Peter Thomas. Printing: Letterpress. Typography: Handset type. Each page set in a…

A87. Pandora's Box

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63.5 x 25.5 mm (2½” x 1”), scroll (16 ½") 42 cm, 130 copies.

Binding: Scroll, housed in a handmade box covered in marbled paper and set between two wooden blocks. Scroll is attached to a dowel on one end and a board covered in marbled paper on the…

A85. Meditations at the Edge

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A. 28.5 x 11.5 cm (11 ¼” x 4 ½”), 20 pages, 86 copies.

Binding: Text block sewn into boards covered in red cloth. Bhutanese paper sample with gold leaf detail on raised panel on cover. Paper: Text printed on off-white, handmade by Peter Thomas…

A86. Nature's Heart

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45.5 x 58 cm (17 7/8”x 23”), 13 pages, 12 copies.

Binding: Each copy bound differently. Coptic binding. Covers are leather over boards with raised design on the cover. Title in gold on cover. End sheets grey. Paper: White, handmade by Peter and…

A88. The View From Mount Dana

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66.5 x 51 mm (2 5/8” x 2”), 9-page accordion, 97 copies.

Binding: Case-bound fold out accordion; piano-hinge binding. The dowels that form the spine are woven through slits in both the cover paper and accordion text block. Covers are paper,…

A92. Four Views of Kealakekua Bay

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70 x 63.5 mm (2¾”x 2½”), scroll 56 cm (22"), 75 copies.

Binding: Scroll. Case-bound in patterned paper, handmade by Peter Thomas, over boards. Illlustration on label on cover. The scroll is wound onto a dowel set in a handmade Koa wood rack.…

A96. Song of Creation

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70 x 54 mm (2¾” x 2 1/8”), 12-page accordion, 500 copies.

Binding: Nested accordion; covers are cream paper, handmade by Peter Thomas, over boards. Paper: Green paper with plant fiber inclusions, handmade by Peter Thomas. Printing: Digital.…

A98. A Brief History of the Ukulele

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73 x 54 mm (2 7/8” x 2 1/8”), 26-page accordion, 300 copies.

Binding: Simple accordion; covers are mahogany or koa boards. Accordion is printed on both sides. Held by a leatherette paper sleeve. Title and illustration on label on cover. End…

E5. Nine Poets

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76 x 60 mm (3” x 2 3/8”) 30 copies.

“We developed the dowel spine portfolio as the binding for this series of miniature broadsides made while we were teaching a workshop at the Naropa Institute's Kavyayantra Press. The press did not have a…