an Idle Thought
laboriously presented:
by Ross Stockwell
San Diego, California: Ross Stockwell, 2007. Edition of 20.
4.5 x 5.5"; 14 pages. Paper strip pop-ups presented in a small codex book. Paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Written and bound by Ross Stockwell.
Ross Stockwell: "This book employs the same device as The Term [an earlier artists' book by Stockwell] (a ribbon that runs from page to page) but it has a different plot. A strip of paper, running straight and true ... stumbles and bends and goes crooked ... until, at last, it gets back on track. Note: This cliché (straight=good, bent=problematic) is first used cliché fashion to illustrate an Idle Thought, and is then examined, on the last page, as a cliché."
$150
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The Term
By William Carlos Williams
San Diego, California: Ross Stockwell, 2005. Edition of 50.
5.75 x 7"; 8 pages. Three double-page pop-ups. Paper-covered boards with red cloth spine. Book design by Ross Stockwell. Book construction by Bay Park Press.
A paper bag pop-up winds its way through the pages of the Williams' "The Term."
"A rumpled sheet of brown paper about the length ..."
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