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We recommend — The Book Restructured: Wire-Edge Binding

17 Thursday May 2018

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Arthur Larson, Book Arts Program, Book Arts Studio, collage, Daniel Kelm, Easthampton, Garage Annex School for Book Arts, gouache, Granary Books, Greta Sibley, Horton Tank Graphics, J. Willard Marriott Library, Jane Sherry, Jill Jevne, Jospeh A. Osina, Korea, New York City, Philip Gallo, photographs, printing, rare books, Rives BFK, rubber stamps, Small Offering Press, Sonam Temple, South Cholla Province, Terence K. McKenna, The Hermetic Press, Timothy Ely, typography, Wide Awake Garage, wire-edge binding


“Everything corresponds. Sweet is easy: happiness. Tanginess is trickier: people going the wrong way and calling it right; the tendency not to complain while harboring envious and covetous feelings. Sourness is things you like and don’t like — woven together. Smokiness is slow vision, seeing gradually the good things in life. What we find distasteful? That’s bitterness.”

Tea: Time in Korea
Greta Sibley
Easthampton, MA: Small Offering Press, 1994
DS904 S53 1994

Text and photographs based on three trips to Sonam Temple, South Cholla Province, Korea. Binding and box designed and produced by Daniel Kelm, Wide Awake Garage. Edition of twenty-five copies. Rare Books copy no. 14, signed by the author and the binder.


“The Book Restructured: Wire-Edge Binding”
A Book Arts Program workshop by Daniel Kelm

June 1 & 2, 2018
Friday & Saturday, 10:00 – 5:00
Book Arts Studio, J. Willard Marriott Library, Level 4

$215, register here

Wire-edge binding utilizes a thin metal wire along the hinging edge of each page. The metal wire is exposed at regular intervals, creating knotting stations where thread attaches one page to the next. The result is a binding that opens exceptionally well and provides the option of producing unusual shapes. This workshop presents various wire-edge structures useful for books, enclosures, and articulated sculpture. Participants produce both a simple codex and an accordion model that forms a tetrahedron. All levels of experience are welcome.

Daniel E. Kelm is a book artist who enjoys expanding the concept of the book. He is known for his innovative structures as well as his traditional work. In the mid-1980s, Daniel invented a style of bookbinding called wire-edge binding in order to explore the nature of the book as articulated sculpture. His expression as an artist emerges from the integration of work in science and the arts. Alchemy is a common theme in his bookwork. Daniel received formal training in chemistry and taught at the University of Minnesota and is known for his extensive knowledge of materials. Daniel teaches widely, and founded the Garage Annex School for Book Arts (GAS) in 1990. Most recently, with long-time collaborator Timothy Ely, Daniel co-delivered a lecture on The Alchemy of the Handmade Book at the Getty Center as a complement to the exhibition The Alchemy of Color in Medieval Manuscripts.

Rare Books is pleased to support the Book Arts Program with its collections.



“Decadence is sophistication severed from genuine feeling.”

Synesthesia
Terence K. McKenna (1946-2000)
New York City: Granary Books, 1992
N7433.4 M4285 S95 1992

Drawn and painted images by Timothy Ely. Typography and printing by Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. Paper is Rives BFK. Bookbinding by Daniel Kelm and staff, Wide Awake Garage. Edition of seventy five copies, twenty hors commerce. Rare Books copy is no. 47, signed by the author, printer and binder.



“I decide to go down the mountain to get a jar of fig sugar. The houses below feel very flimsy. I am greeted in one, by a cat that chases me barking like a dog back up the hill with an empty peanut butter jar.”

Venus Unbound
Jane Sherry
New York City: Granary Books, 1993
N7433.4 S418 V46 1993

The writer dreams. From the colophon: “The images were printed from metal plates made from the artist’s original paintings then treated with extensive hand-work: gouache, pen & ink, rubber stamps and collage…” Typography and printing by Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. Binding designed by Daniel Kelm. Box made by Jill Jevne. Edition of forty-one copies, eleven lettered. Rare Books copy is “A/P 2/2, signed by the author.



“The moon empties of light and is called new.”

Four Chambers, Five Nights
Greta Sibley
Easthampton, MA: Small Offerings Press, 1999
N7433.4 S5453 F68 1999

Text designed and composed by the author. Imagery created by Joseph A. Osina. Letterpress printed by Arthur Larson of Horton Tank Graphics. Binding and folders designed by Daniel E. Kelm at The Wide Awake Garage. Edition of twenty copies. Rare Books copy is no. 14.

— Photographs by Scott Beadles

 

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The Cosmic Sidereal Galactic Abecedarium of the Universe & Other Tangential Star Ephemera

16 Wednesday Aug 2017

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abecedarium, Bay Park Press, Clarendon, cosmic, Department of Physics and Astronomy, digital imaging, ephemera, Fabriano Rosapina Blanco, flexagon, galactic, J. Willard Marriott Library, Jim Goode, Jim Machecek, letterpress, monogramming, photopolymer plates, Printing Shoppe, Rare Books Classroom, Rare Books Department, Rives BFK, San Diego, Sibyl Rubottom, sidereal, solar eclipse, Somerset Book, stars, The University of Utah, universe, Vandercook Universal I, Venus, wood type, zinc intaglio plate

 

 

 

 

“Adore the sun, rising with all his rays, receiving the obeisance of gods and demons, the shining maker of light.”
— The Ramayana

The Cosmic Sidereal Galactic Abecedarium of the Universe & Other Tangential Ephemera
Sibyl Rubottom and Jim Machacek
San Diego: Bay Park Press, 2001
N7433.4 R73 C67 2001

From the colophon: “This ABC book of the universe was created from March to November 2001. During this period Jim’s mother Agnes died and took her place among the stars, Sibyl’s husband Al had successful open-heart surgery, and then the Sept. 11 tragedy occurred. Throughout it all the stars remained our constant as we created visuals with photopolymer plates, wood type, monogramming, digital imaging, and a zinc intaglio plate for the cover. Text was printed on a Vandercook Universal I letterpress in various fonts of Venus and Clarendon type. The flexagon was offset printed at the Printing Shoppe with thanks to Peter & Darryl. Thanks also to Jim Goode for his computer genius and Rhiannon for typesetting help. A galaxy of thank-yous for Jerry and Al for computer assistance, editing & their cosmic patience during our sidereal voyage. The Abecedarium was printed at Bay Park Press on Somerset Book, Fabriano Rosapina Blanco and Rives BFK papers. This is copy Q of 26.”

The sun, the moon, the stars!

Please join The Rare Books Department for a hands-on display of stars from our collections, representing more than one thousand years of cosmological gazing. This open house is in conjunction with a solar eclipse gathering hosted by the J. Willard Marriott Library and The University of Utah’s Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Rare Books Department
Monday, August 21, 10AM to 1PM
Rare Books Classroom, Level 4
J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah

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Book of the Week — Images and Impressions

27 Monday Feb 2017

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Brewster Ghiselin, copper etchings, Department of Art, English Etching, Optima, Printmaking Department, Rives BFK, Russell T. Gordon, Salt Lake City, stone lithograph, University of Utah, zinc etchings

Z239-U8-U8-1969-foreward

“Out of heaven the stars we were reading a little as they tarried
into exile.”
— Brewster Ghiselin, from “Light”

Images and Impressions
Salt Lake City: Printmaking Department, University of Utah, 1969
Z239 U8 U8 1969

Project conception by Professor Russell T. Gordon, Department of Art. Work by students of the Printmaking Department consisting of sixteen prints (fifteen zinc and copper etchings and one stone lithograph). Type is Optima. Papers are Rives BFK and English Etching. Edition of twenty-five copies, signed by the poets and the artists.

Z239-U8-U8-1969-Shell

Z239-U8-U8-1969-Wheel

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Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014), In Memorium

11 Saturday Apr 2015

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A Poet's Alphabet of Influences, Alfred A. Knopf, Atheneum, Austin, Barbara Cash, Bembo, blind-stamp, Blizzard of One, Bonnie Sucec, BookLab, C. N. Potter, Charles Seluzicki, Columbian handpress, Crown Publishers, Curtis Rag, Darker, Day Christensen, Don Howell, Elegy for My Father: Robert Strand, Gretchen Esping, handset, Humanities Research Center, Iowa City, Ives Street Press, Jorge Luis Borges, Josef Albers, K. K. Merker, Kim Merker, Larry Yerkes, Linotype Janson, Luminsim, Maine, Mark Strand, Monotype Univers, Neil Welliver, New York, Oregon, Photo-silkscreens, Pillar Guri Press, Portland, Prose, Pulitzer Prize, Random House, Reasons for Moving, Red Butte Press, Rives BFK, Romanee, Salt Lake City, Selected Poems, Shari Madsen, Sleeping With One Eye Open, Spectrum, Stempel Helvetica, Stone Wall Press, Sweden, Texas, The Continuous Life, The Manuscript Society of America, The Night Book, The Story of Our Lives, Twinrocker Paper Mill, uncorrected proof, University of Texas at Austin, University of Utah, Van Dijck, Vandercook Test, William Pène du Bois (1916-1993), William R. Holman, Windhover, Windhover Press, woodcuts

Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Strand taught at The University of Utah from 1981 to 1993.

“And though it was brief, and slight, and nothing
To have been held onto so long, I remember it,
As if it had come from within, one of the scenes
The mind sets for itself, night after night, only
To part from quickly and without warning.”

From “Luminism,” The Continuous Life


PS3569-T69-S55-1964-pg-28

Sleeping With One Eye Open
Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1964
PS3569 T69 S55 1964

Printed by K. K. Merker from Romanée type on Curtis Rag paper. Edition of two hundred and twenty-five copies. University of Utah copy is no. 60.


PS3569-T69-R4-1969-title[

Reasons for Moving
New York: Atheneum, 1968
PS3569 T69 R4 1969

University of Utah copy is poet’s autographed copy.


PS3569-T69-D3-1970-title

Darker
New York: Atheneum, 1970
PS3569 T69 D3 1970

University of Utah copy autographed by the poet.


PS3569-T69-E44-1973-pg-6

Elegy for my father: Robert Strand, 1908-1968
Iowa City: Pillar Guri Press, 1973
PS3569 T69 E44 1973

Photo-silkscreens by Gretchen Esping. Printed by Shari Madsen in 14 pt. Bembo on handmade Japanese Shogun paper. Edition of one hundred and fifty copies.


PS3569-T69-S7-1973-title

The Story of Our Lives
New York: Atheneum, 1973
PS3569 T69 S7

University of Utah copy autographed by the poet.


PQ7797-B635-T4-1975-Texas-poem

Texas
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
Austin: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1975
PQ7797 B635 T4 1975

Translation by Mark Strand. Keepsake for the members of The Manuscript Society of America, designed by William R. Holman. Set in Linotype Janson. Edition of two hundred and ninety-five copies.


PS2569-T69-N55-1985-title-spread[

The Night Book
New York: C. N. Potter: Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1985
First edition
PS3569 T69 N55 1985

Illustrations by William Pène du Bois (1916-1993)


PS3569-T69-P76-1987[

Prose
Portland, OR: Charles Seluzicki, 1987
PS3569 T69 P76 1987

Drawings by Josef Albers. Printed by Barbara Cash at the Ives Street Press, Sweden, Maine. Text set in Monotype Univers. Titles hanset in Stempel Helvetica. Blind-stamp throughout. Paper is Rives BFK. Edition of one hundred and eighty-seven copies. University of Utah copy is no. 80, signed by the poet.


PS3569-T69-B57-1998-cover

Blizzard of one
New York: Alfred A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1998
PS3569 T69 B57 1998

Uncorrected proof.


PS3569-T69-C66-1990

The Continuous Life
Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1990
PS3569 T69 C66 1990

Woodcuts by Neil Welliver. Printed by Kim Merker and Don Howell using a Vandercook Test press from handset Spectrum types on Windhover paper. Binding by Larry Yerkes. Edition of two hundred and twenty-five copies, numbered.


PS3569-T69-A6-1990-cover

Selected Poems
New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1990
PS3569 T69 A6 1990

Uncorrected proof.


PS3569-T69-P64-1994-spread

A poet’s alphabet of influences
Salt Lake City: Red Butte Press, 1993
PS3569 T69 P64 1994

Drawings by Bonnie Sucec, hand-painted by the artist. Designed, set by hand and printed damp on an 1846 Columbian handpress by Day Christensen. Type is 16 pt Van Dijck. Paper is handmade cotton rag from Twinrocker Paper Mill. Bound and boxed in linen case by BookLab. Edition of seventy-five copies plus 20 copies hors de commerce. This is copy XX, signed by the poet, artist, and printer.

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