Category: Letterpress Prints

It Is Bitter to Leave Your Home by Romano Hänni

Edition of 87 numbered copies. Issued in a slipcase. “Overall production: Romano Hänni, Studio for Design, letterpress print shop. Letterpress, hand proofing press, five-color. 87 numbered copies (plus…

Eight Questions by Stephanie Copoulos-Selle

Cover title. Publication information from vendor’s website. Edition of 35. Signed and numbered by the artist. “Fabric pages. Embroidery. Original handwritten recipes on cards. Letterpress text overprinted on…

In War 1940 by Karen Baldner

Issued in a limited edition of 20 copies. Artist Karen Baldner teaches as an adjunct faculty member at the IU Herron School of Art and Design. “Letterpress and…

VVVVV by Judy Rushin, Denise Bookwalter, Allison Milham, Michelle Ray, and AB Gorham

An edition of 200. 6.5 x 6.5″ four-flap cardboard box with colophon pastedown on interior base. Contains 12 double-sided 3 x 3″ blocks, each bearing a letterpress printed…

Persimmons: Li-Young Lee by Susan Angebranndt

Issued in paper box. Edition of 50. “Persimmons” poem by Li-Yuong Lee originally published in 1986.”–Colophon. “Printed letterpress on Canson & Fabriano papers in Centaur. The embroidered words…

Labor / Movement: (Seven Workers) by Amy Borezo

“Labor/Movement (seven workers) depicts movement visually in book form, while calling attention to the complexity of everyday human activity. The book tracks the motions of seven workers over…

Jail Box by Liz Canfield and Tobias Wilbur

3 pages cut-out in the shape of unassembled boxes, illustrated with 2 color typographical designs and illustrations printed on vellum paper. The pages are attached on one end…

American Manifesto by Todd M. Thyberg

Cover title. Letterpress printed in three colors on a Heidelberg 10×15 Windmill at Angel Bomb in Minneapolis, MN., in wool and cotton papers. “With a tip of the hat…

Correspondence: Sheet Music for a Common World by Regula Russelle

Title from container; publication information from dealer’s website. “… Box with 10 unnumbered translucent mandalaesque leaves (diptychs) laid in. Relief + monoprinting, letterpress, oil crayon on handmade abaca…

Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Christopher Hatton : the Dancing Chancellor by Alice Simpson

In accordion format within covers. Colophon pasted inside back cover. Edition of 60 signed and numbered copies. “Letterpress printed on Rives BFK tan mould-made paper on a Vandercook…

American Breeding Standards by Ellen Knudson

Edition of 60. American Breeding Standards explores the systemized rules about what comprises a good or bad horse, a good or bad woman and the steps one might…

Experiments in Paper: A Curated Exploration of Invasive Plants in Alabama as Based on Early Botanicals by Kate Barber

“Hard case with four-flap paper wrapper interior containing 12 individual sheets (5.5 x 8.5″ closed, 11 x 8.5″ open); [four-flap paper is printed and illustrated, too]. Typography is…

The Short Goodbye: {being an excerpted, expunged, & expurgated rendition of Mr. Chandler’s novel The Long Goodbye} by Raymond Chandler with Lisa Rappoport

Textured cover with two “bullet hole” impressions. 12.25 x 8.5″; 16 pages. Printed letterpress on dampened Rives de Lin. Bound in Metallic Black & Silver covers with Hahnemühle…

The Pop-Up Hand Shadow Book by Helen Hiebert

Cover title. “Gate fold with fold-out pop-up panels. Letterpress printed and laser cut paper pages, book board, cherry & plywood laser cut box featuring each animal in the…

We Can Go Beyond It: An Artist’s Book by Bridget Elmer

Title from colophon sheet inserted in pocket of folding archival container. “Inspired by images generated from qEEGs of her father’s brain, the artist simulates the neurological process of…

Uniform Paper by Heidi Neilson

Cover title. Author information and date taken from colophon. An edition of 33 copies comprising only handmade paper. Each sheet of paper has a brief letterpress text describing…

Chair History by Stephanie Mahan Stigliano

Cover title. Illustrations also on lining papers and front cover. Bound in an accordian style. MCA: Stephanie Mahan Stigliano, alumna (MFA Painting and Printmaking: 1988). Link to Library…

October 1972 by Laurie Anderson

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Reply (crumpled on her desk) by Stephanie Mahan Stigliano

Reply (crumpled on her desk) written by Florence H. Williams ; designed & printed by Stephanie Mahan Stigliano Originally published in 1930. The cover is enamaled wood with…

Unfolding Poems by Michele Wong Albanese

A collaboration between one poet and eight artists. Each book contained in the box presents a different poem as interpreted by the artist. Limited ed. of 27 copies….

This Is Just to Say by Stephanie Mahan Stigliano

Encased in a box ; cover of book is padded vinyl. “I took a letterpress class because I was attracted to the beauty of the print; type slightly…

My Mother’s Napkins by Anne Thompson

“Anne Thompson wrote, illustrated, hand-set, letterpress printed, & bound this book, finishing in 2004”–Colophon. Edition of 50. Brown cloth boards with Coptic sewn binding. Pages are paper napkins,…

Point of View by Sarah Bryant

“… the back sides of the gate folds … presented a challenge. Somehow, this space needed to introduce each spread and use a system which unified the book…….

So On and So On by Emily Martin

“A do-si-do coptic bound book of images presenting a narrative in two opposing orders.”–Accompaning artist statement. Link to Library Catalog