Apparitions
By Geoffrey Black
Drawings by Thomas Pinkert
Iowa City: Peridot Press, 2001. Edition of 52.
7 x 11";38 pages. Handset type and letterpress printed. Illustrations printed from polymer plates in three colors. Oakdale Walnut cover paper and Oakdale Walnut Crinkle end sheets. Printed dry on Oakdale flax text paper (B4 and B9) with handmade watermarked gampi and abaca-cotton papers (both made and watermarked by printer). Bound using vellum tackets and handspun flax thread. Wrapped in folders of rawhide leather.
In memoriam: Geoffrey Black, 1951 - 1986
$475 |
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A Bird in the Hand
By S. M. Schneider
N.p.: Peridot Press, 1986. Edition of 100.
5.125 x 7.125"; 30 pages. Handset type and letterpress printed dry on Japanese paper. Wood engravings (including one fold-out illustration) by Pati Scobey. Case bound in linen with heat-stamped cover ornament illustration (bound & heat-stamped by Katherine Kuehn based on printer’s design).
Poems by Susi Schneider:
Up From Down Under
Autumn Scene
A Bird in the Hand
Feel My Heartbeat
Protective Coating
Voyeur
The World at Your Fingertips
Excerpt from A Bird in the Hand
The bushes in front hide the porch inside
where you spend your time.
Wide bamboo curtains help to keep the outside out. ...
$225 |
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Night Breezes and the Next Tomorrow
By Danann McDermott
Madison, Wisconsin: Peridot Press, 1984. Edition of 75.
5.75 x 10"; 15 pages. Handset type and letterpress printed dry. Illustrations printed from zinc plates in five colors. Handmade cover paper (made by printer) with glitter embellishments attached to silk screened cover illustration, French door accordion-folded Japanese kozo text paper printed on one sheet which unfolds as a broadsheet, bound with silver thread.
This book of poetry is the third book from Peridot Press.
$175
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Backwaters
By Stephen M. Miller
illustrations by Stephanie Newman
Madison, Wisconsin: Peridot Press, 1983. Edition of 60.
5.375 x 7"; 30 pages. Handset type and letterpress printed dry. Illustrations printed from zinc plates in two colors. Handmade cover and text paper made by Susi Schneider. Concertina binding. Printed spine and cover illustration. Other insets fishing line and lure. Bound with silver thread.
Colophon: "Backwaters, the second book of The Peridot Press, ... brings together the talents of Stephen Miller, poet and explorer of human natures, and Stephanie Newman, artist and, for this book, haunter of diners and bowling alleys. "
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