Books about the Printing, Paper, and Bookbinding Arts
Out-of-Print Titles
Papermaker's Tears: Essays on the Art and Craft of Paper
Tatiana Ginsberg, editor
Volume 1 (2019)
360 pages • 378 illustrations • full color • hardcover • 10 x 7 in. • 2019 • 9781940965147 • $85.00
Sheila Waters
Waters Rising: Letters from Florence
496 pages • 283 illustrations • full color • hardcover • 10 x 7 in. • DVD • 2016 • 9781940965000 • $45.00
NB: Copies may be purchased from the author’s son, designer Julian Waters, by emailing: waterslettering@yahoo.com.
Elaine Koretsky
Killing Green: An Account of Hand Papermaking in China
217 pages • 85 illustrations • full color • hardcover • 9 x 6 in. • 2009 • 9780979797415 • $35.00
NB: Carriage House Paper may have copies of this book in stock; email: info@carriagehousepaper.com.
Paper & Mediums Study Collection
Cathleen A. Baker, compiler
2016 • $1,800
Dorothy Field
Paper and Threshold: The Paradox of Spiritual Connection in Asian Cultures
Foreword by Jane M. Farmer
108 pages • 207 illustrations • full color • hardcover • 11.5 x 9.5 in. • 2007 • 9780979797408 • $45.00
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The following out-of-print books were hand-printed by Cathleen Baker, under her imprint The Legacy Press, while she was a student in the MFA in Book Arts Program at the University of Alabama, 1997–2000.
Jennifer Futernick
One Curve of Sugar
Edition 100; 34 pages, 9.25 x 5.75 inches. Letterpress-printed on Mohawk Superfine; illustrations by Larry Lou Foster; binding-meant-to-fall-apart (“Bugra”); signed by the author, illustrator, and printer. Original price: $35.00
Gaius Catullus
Carmen 1
Edition 50; French fold; unfolded: 9 x 12 in. Letterpress-printed on Mohawk Superfine with papyrus pop-up elements; signed by printer. Original price: $5.00
Cathleen A. Baker
The Story of Blue Betsey
Edition 30; 12 pages, 8 x 5.5 inches. Letterpress-printed on Mohawk Superfine; linocuts and hand-applied color; pamphlet binding (“Roma”); signed by author/printer. Original price: $25.00
Cathleen A. Baker • John DePol
Endgrain Designs & Repetitions: The Pattern Papers of John DePol
2000. Edition size 130; signed by both authors; 10.5 x 5.75 inches; 164 pages; 5 tipped-on color specimens of previously published pattern papers; letterpress-printed by hand on Mohawk Superfine paper from photopolymer plates; Diotima typeface. Binding by Gray Parrot; quarter black cloth with pattern-paper sides; paper label on spine, red endbands. Original price: $295.00
NB: This was the author’s MFA thesis project. The title is now available in an offset-printed edition: click on the book’s cover on this website’s home page for more information.