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The Nameless Dead

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"The pictures for this book were taken in Khiva and Bukhara, Uzbekistan in 2000 ... The typefaces were designed specifically for this book and consist of a sans serif captioning face, a serifed text face, an italic, small caps, and [Kirillit︠s︡a].…

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Mayflies of the Driftless Region

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"400 copies printed on Zerkall paper by Gaylord Schanilec. A special edition of fifty copies is bound in full calf by Jill Jevne, and contained in a slipcase of her design ... A limited edition of 300 copies is bound in quarter goat by Gregor…

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Lonesome Rows

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"Printed from three birch plywood blocks. The papers are Somerset Velvet and Somerset Book, the types are Garamond 156 ... . The woodcut blocks were run many times in the reduction technique to develop the layered surfaces. The book was designed,…

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Letter Home (III)

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Letter written from Naples, Italy by a navy wife to family back in the United States

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Land(scaped)

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Handmade paper in irregular shape to form a skyline ; folded accordion style (131 X 15 cm.) in a folder ; The graphics have been formed by a combination of collaged pieces of paper and colored paper pulp which has been added to the surface of the…

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Khiva : Arkheologii︠a︡ i Istorii︠a︡

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"The end of Khiva : archeology and history--P. 94.

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Ink on the Elbow

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Selected correspondence, spanning over four years, between printers Esselmont and Schanilec. Includes a number of color linocuts by Esslemont and an engraved panorama of Esslemont's home in Wales by Schanilec. Contains also ink jet prints and sample…

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Four Passages

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"Accordian printed intaglio on Somerset Book Heavyweight paper. Four relief printed small pages of handmade Japanese paper are hand stitched onto the accordion using decorative stitches in red and brown. Painted board covers with relief printed…

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Forgotten Landscapes

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Artist Xavier Monsalvatje, photographed, filmed and painted the decline of the Valencian industrial area of Cross, where spectacular architecture fell into neglect and then was destroyed. This series of silk-screen printing is a reflection of its…

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The Foragers

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"A Memory Palaces production by Lane Hall, including aphorisms, exercises and textual fragments from The Elementary Spelling Book, Noah Webster (1829). Images from field collection, specimen scans and foraging."--Colophon.

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