The Rare Book Room includes a collection of Artist Books, dating from the late 1920s to the present. All are limited editions; some are one-of-a kind, and all are beautiful. Here are some of the titles in our collection.
Mark Doty's poetry has won him numerous prizes, including the T.S. Eliot Prize, the National Poetry Series, the LA Times Book Award, the National Book Critics' Circle Award, and the National Book Award. He is currently the Distinguished Professor of English at Rutger's University.
"One hundred-sixty copies of this book, plus proofs, were printed from Bembo types on Somerset paper."
"[Letterpress priinted from 16 point Bembo types on dampened Somerset paper on the Vandercook 4 test press. The book features six woodcuts in several colors (some color applied by hand with watercolor, others printed with separate blocks) by Lisa Schoenfielder. The lap component binding, designed and executed by Julie Leonard, is long-stitched onto a handmade paper spine, with golden cloth over the boards. There is an inset label on the front"--Publisher's Web site.
Annotations: Artist book.Number 55 of 160. Signed by poet (Mark Doty) and artist (Lisa Schoenfielder).
Illustrations: Colored and black and white woodcuts by Lisa Shoenfielder.