Red Butte Press ~ Utah
(University of Utah)

To A Young Writer
By Wallace Stegner
University of Utah: Red Butte Press, 2009. Edition of 125.

10 x 13.25 x 1.25"; 28 pages. Printed on a 1846 Columbian handpress onto cotton paper handmade by Twinrocker Mill. Fournier typeface. Bound in wood, cloth, and calfskin. Housed in a clamshell box.

Publication is in concert with the centennial celebration of Wallace Stegner's birth in 1909. The feature essay first appeared in The Atlantic (November 1959). The dedication by Wendell Berry and the introduction by Lynn Stegner appear here for the first time.

Red Butte Press, publication announcement: "The book contains Wallace Stegner's vivid essay To a Young Writer, new writing by nationally distinguished writers Wendell Berry and Lynn Stegner [award-winning author and daughter-in-law of Wallace Stegner], and three original engravings by renowned artist Barry Moser. ...

"The University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library, home of Red Butte Press, is the primary repository for Wallace Stegner's archives. ...

"Wallace Stegner graduated from the University of Utah in 1930. He subsequently completed a Ph.D. at the University of Iowa, returning to the University of Utah to teach in 1934. He later taught at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard University, and Stanford University, where he developed the prestigious Creative Writing Program. Stegner taught for over forty years. In 1972, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This Red Butte Press edition celebrates Wallace Stegner's vast legacy as a teacher, a writer, and an extraordinary human being."

From the essay: "You think ten times where a lot of writers throb once."

And: "I like the sense of intimate knowing that your novel gives me. After all, what are any of us after but the conviction of belonging? What does more to stay us and keep our backbones stiff while the world reels than the sense that we are linked with someone who listens and understands and so in some way completes us? I have said somewhere else that the aesthetic experience is a conjugal act, like love. I profoundly believe it."

*Note: "The layering is repeated on the cover with the three copper inlays. The emblematic triple layering is a reference to the three essays within, created by three connected generations - Stegner, student, and mentee."
$790

SOMETHING LIVED, SOMETHING DREAMED:
URBAN DESIGN & THE AMERICAN WEST
By William McDonough
Salt Lake City, Utah: Red Butte Press, 2004. Edition of 125.

In keeping with the message of the essay, the book was conceived in the spirit of sustainable design. Over fifty people from at least six states as well as Italy worked on the project. The cotton paper was commissioned from Magnani Mill in Italy. The covers are made from a single sycamore tree reclaimed from an urban construction site in California as well as recycled aluminum, specially provided and finished by Alcoa Technical Center in Pennsylvania. Covers were fabricated in Utah by Woodworkers Gary Evershed and Chris Wright. The type is Monotype Univers and was cast from hot metal and composed in Washington by Stern & Faye. The text was printed on an 1846 Columbian handpress by Marnie Powers-Torrey, assisted by Jennifer Sorenson. Artist Chris Stern contributed three letterpress monoprints, each hand-inked, resulting in slight variations among prints making each book unique. Craig Jensen of BookLab II in Texas bound each book by hand in a modern coptic variation. Victoria Hindley, creative director of the Red Butte Press, developed the project and designed the book. Each book is housed in a drop-spine box with blind debossed title on the spine.

This is the first time that William McDonough¹s comprehensive design philosophy has been presented. The essay does not appear anywhere else. It examines the complex relationship between natural and urban landscapes in western American cities. It is a spirited manifesto that reimagines the city through McDonough¹s visionary lens, offering a lyrical invitation to reconsider the rich relationship between nature and city in the twenty-first century.

Former dean of the school of architecture at the University of Virginia, William McDonough is recognized worldwide for his writing and pioneering work in architecture and design. He is the only individual to have received the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, and in 1999, Time magazine recognized him as a Hero of the Planet. Recently, McDonough was awarded the 2004 National Design Award in the field of environmental design by the Smithsonian¹s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. This is widely considered the nation¹s highest design honor.
$690 (a few copies remaining)