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A51. Papermaking With Kids

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76 x 60.5 mm (3” x 2 3/8”), 14 pages, 50 copies.

Binding: Quarter-bound in green sheepskin and blue paper, handmade by Peter Thomas and marbled by the authors. Title in gold on spine. End sheets cream with inclusions, handmade by the authors.…

A113. West to East

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21 x 16 cm (8 ¼” x 6 ¼”), 10-page accordion, 15 copies.

Binding: Simple accordion; covers are tan cloth over boards. Illustration on label on cover. End sheets green. Accordion pages are held together by interwoven paper tapes, handmade by Peter…

E10. Wake Up

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20 x 15 cm (7 ¾” x 6”) 30 copies.

Binding: Portfolio folder constructed of handmade and painted paper. Folder bound with a green pencil. Paper: Handmade by the participants of the summer writing program. Printing: Letterpress. Notes: Collaboration…

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…

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…

E4. From Marriage: A Sentence

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76 x 54 mm (3” x 2 1/8”) 16 copies.

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:…

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…

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.…

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…