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A9. The Tale of Cara-Sou and His Magic Word

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28 x 21.5 cm (11” x 8 ½”), 14 pages, 30 copies.

Binding: Quarter-bound in brown calfskin and rust-colored commercial paper. Dust jacket in rust-colored commercial paper with title and illustration by Donna Thomas on cover. End sheets white,…

A7. The Maid and Her Cat

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17 x 9cm (6 5/8” x 3 5/8”), 12 pages, 25 copies.

Binding: Folder, full cloth brown marbled velveteen tied with burgundy ribbon. Etching mounted on left cover. Text mounted on right cover, or folder, full cloth red and purple marbled velveteen tied…

A68. You Can't Make Paper From a Loofah

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21.5 x 14 cm (8 ½” x 5 ½”), 32 pages, 15 copies.

Binding: Coptic binding. Covers are pastel green handmade paper boards textured with deeply indented laid lines. Paper: White, Svecia Antiqua. Printing: Digital. Typography: Palatino. Illustration:…

A61. Celia Fiennes

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65 x 51 mm (2 9/16” x 2”), 22 pages, 200 copies.

Binding: Copies 1-25 are full-bound in brown goatskin. Title in gold on spine. Copies 26-200 are bound in paper from text of Keble’s Reports over boards. Title and illustration on cover. Title…

A63. Aesop's Frog Fables

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20.5 x 14 cm (8” x 5 ½”), 24 pages, 50 copies.

Binding: Full-bound in green suede. Title in green on cover. End sheets green. Housed in green paper slipcase. Title in green or gold on cover. Paper: Green or turquoise, handmade by Peter Thomas.…

A121. Time I$

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63.5 x 51 mm (2 ½” x 2”), 10 pages, 100 copies.

Binding: Flap book; full-bound in printed white paper over boards. Five dowels with flaps that flip to display text are set in a wooden frame affixed to the back inside cover of the binding. Dowels…

E9. Naropa 2004

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16 x 4 cm (6 ¼” x 1 ¾”) 10 copies.

Binding: Eight individual sheets housed in a handmade “Dowel Spine portfolio”. Folder is decorated with printed words that were used on the sheets Paper: Handmade by Peter. Printing: Letterpress printed. Notes:…

E4. From Marriage: A Sentence

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76 x 54 mm (3” x 2 1/8”) 16 copies.

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…

E13. Where the Crossing happens

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17 x 13cm (6 ¾” x 5 ¼”) 38 copies.

Binding: Dowel Spine portfolio (developed by the Thomases) contains fifteen broadsides. Decorated with a unique acrylic print (made indirectly from metal type) Paper: Canson Mi Teintes. Printing: Letterpress on…