PARASOLS
$22
Bo Press, 2008
A miniature book, 1 3/4" x 1 1/2"
44 pages, 24 illustrations
A fantasy collection of designs for parasols. Colorful graphics on parasol and umbrella shapes, with patterns of peanuts, pizza, poker, puppies, pencils. pies, pills, pomegranates.....
Bound in red paper with sky blue polka dots, decorative endpapers, and paper titles printed on the front and spine. Signed by the artist.
LIZARDS
IN LOVE
$22
Bo Press 200844 pages, 24 illustrations
1 5/8" x 1 1/8"
Bound in green lizard paper, with decorative endpapers and a paper title pasted on the front.
A follow-up to GIANT LIZARDS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, this is the second book in "The Little Lizard Library". Love-struck lizards in both high and popular art; from Shakespeare to Valentines to modern tabloid scandal.
THE STREETS
OF LAREDO
$42
Bo Press,
2008,
29 pages, 18 illustrations
1 3/8" x 1 7/8"
A sad Come-All-Ye ballad of the Old West, guaranteed to make grown men weep. Written (or, at least, copyrighted) by Francis Henry Maynard in 1876, the folk ballad had existed in various forms for many years before. A young, dying cowboy warns others to beware of meeting his fate.
Bound in patched brown leather, with raised bands and decorative endpapers, and illustrated with sepia-toned photographs from the period.
A MASQUE OF EXTINCTION $22
or The Skin Beneath the Skull
2008, 74 pages, 24 illustrations
1 5/8" x 1 3/8"
Bound in black and silver lizard printed paper, woth paper titles pasted on the front and spine, and decorative endpapers.
Illustrations of humans wearing the skulls of extinct animals as masks, dinosaurs mostly, but later animals and hominids, as well. Costumes for a cross-species Dance of Death that extends backwards through time. As we are now, so once were they; as they are now, we soon will be.
(The concept for this one is a little difficult to explain. The images certainly looks deeply meaningful, but mostly I just wanted to put big dinosaur skulls on people's heads. Who doesn't?)
TOM O'
BEDLAM'S SONG
$22
"From the hag and hungry
goblin, that into rags would rend ye,And the spirit that stands by the naked man in the book of moons, defend thee.
That from your five sound senses you never be forsaken,
Nor wander from yourself with Tom, abroad to beg your bacon."
2008, 61 numbered pages, 24 illustrations
11/16" x 1 1/8"
Bound in red anmd black marbled paper, a paper titles on the front, and decorative endpapers. Signed by the artist.
The stark and beautiful English folk song mentioned by Shakespeare in KING LEAR, illustrated with (mostly) Elizabethan woodcuts.
PI
$22
20081 1/2" x 1"
46 pages, alphabetically paginated.
Bound in tan striped paper, with decorative endpapers. Signed by the artist.
A mathematical curiosity. Four versions of Pi, running together on the same pages throughout the book.
THE EDDYSTONE LIGHT
$22
20081 1/8" X 7/8"
Bound in a photographic reproduction of a 1826 copy of Bowditch's THE AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR, the interior is lined in paper printed with weathered wood. A slip-band on the recto holds a folded copy (4 1/4" x 2 3/4") of the old sea chanty.
Inspired by a customer's miniature cabin cruiser. This indispensible navigation guide, updated, is still on the deck of every U.S. Navy vessel.
COUNT OUT $22
2008,
Accordion Book, 25" extended.1 1/8" x 1 1/16"
Bound in cream paper printed with vines and flowers, with paper titles pasted on the front and spine. Signed by the artist.
A circle of feet disappear one by one, then return to form an ambitious design. From the addendum to the old counting-out rhyme, added to heighten the suspense.
EENA DEENA $22
2008,
Accordion Book, 19" extended.1 1/8" x 1 1/16"
Bound in white paper printed with spiral designs, and paper titles on the front and spine. Signed by the artist.
A pastoral panorama that flows from night to day to night again, and from deserts to gardens to waterfalls, with the words of the old counting rhyme flying and tumbling through the sky.
LITTLE BILLEE $22
There were three sailors of Bristol CityWho took a boat and went to sea..."
2007,
37
pages, 10
illustrations
1
1/2" x 1 1/4"Bound in cream and tan striped paper, with a paper title pasted on the front. Signed by the artist.
William Makepeace Thackeray's rollicking ballad of cannibalism at sea.
SOME BEETLES $22
2007,
65 pages, 48 illustrations, no text.1 3/4" x 1 1/8"
Bound in cream paper printed with red fleur-de-lys, with a paper title pasted on the front, and decorative endpapers. Signed by the artist.
Colorful and fantastic variations on an already varied order, Scientists estimate that there might be as many as eight million beetle species, and most of them are probably interesting to look at.
CELESTIAL VARIATIONS $22
2008,
77 pages, 65 illustrations.1 3/8" x 7/8"
Bound in paper printed with celestial maps ,a paper title pasted on thespine, and decorative endpapers. Signed by the artist.
New and fanciful designs for universal furnishings: planets with extra continents, hot pink galaxies, green stars, and imaginary asteroids. A inspiration for anyone planning a new universe.
FLYING CARPET $22
2007,
64 pages, 32 illustrations.1 1/2" x 1 1/8"
Bound in sky-blue paper,with paper titles pasted on the front and spine, and decorative endpapers. Signed by the artist.
An album of flying carpet sightings through (made-up) history. Examples range from a sorcerer animating a carpet in 17th century Bulgaria, to a leather shag throw rug landing at Amsterdam Airport in 1982. There is a three page introduction by the artist expanding the concept.
A CLUTCH OF CORSETS $22
2007,
60 pages, 19 illustrations.1 1/2" x 1 1/4"
Bound in blue and red Japanese paper, with a paper title pasted on the front. Signed by he artist.
Nineteen improbable corset designs drawn from various periods. The introduction, "A Few Notes on Corsets", includes several historic examples.
A FAN OF FANS $22
2007,
70 pages, 65 illustrations.1 7/8" x 1 1/8"
Bound in cream paper printed with red fleur-de-lys, with paper titles pasted on the front and spine, and decorative endpapers. Signed by the artist.
Modern and unusual design for fans, using computer-generated graphics.
SPECIMENS $22
2007,
64 pages, 22 illustrations.1 1/2" x 1 1/8"
Bound in cream paper printed with red fleur-de-lys, with paper titles pasted on the front and spine, and decorative endpapers. Signed by the artist.
Some suggestions for stocking a modern Cabinet of Curiosities. Everyday, and some not-so-everyday, objects in laboratory glassware and specimen jars. If you've ever wanted a Pulchinella in an Erlenmeyer flask, this is the book for you.
LOREM IPSUM $22
2007,
58 pages, 24 illustrations.1 1/2" x 2 1/4"
Bound in green paper printed with palm fronds and a spine of papyrus, with paper titles pasted on the front and spine and decorative endpapers. Signed by the artist.
The famous printer, compositor, and web designer's placekeeper. The text certainly looks like Latin, but isn't, quite. Illustrated with cute little woodcut-like marginalia drawn from various periods.
SILVER DAGGER $22
"Then he picked up that silver dagger,And stove it through his weary heart,
Saying, 'Goodbye, Katie, goodbye, darlin''
The time has come for us to part."
2007,
19 pages, 10 illustrations. 1 9/16" x 1 1/8"
Bound in cream colored paper printed with red fleur-de-lys, with a paper title pasted on the front. Signed by the artist.
A sad Romeo and Juliet folk song from so far up in the hills they had to pipe in daylight, with sepia daguerreotype-like illustrations.
A WEREWOLF FRAGMENT $22
"One met the Duke around midnight in a lane behind Saint Mark's church..."
2007,
21 pages.1 1/2" x 2 1/8"
Bound in red and black marbled paper, with a paper title pasted on the front, and decorative endpapers. Signed by the artist.
Illustrated with the skulls of men and wolves, a chilling speech from John Webster's Jacobean tragedy, "The Duchess of Malfi".
A GEOMETRY SAMPLER $22
2007,
64 pages, 24 illustrations1 3/4" x 1 1/8"
Bound in yell, blue, and brown paisley printed paper, with decorative endpapers, and papet titles pasted on the front and spine.
Lively color illustrations playing with basic two- and three-dimentional geometric shapes, paired with a variety of decorative typefaces.
