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Hardcover. Limited Edition [Deluxe]. Limited Edition [Deluxe]. Hardcover. Exquisitely printed on Arches by Michael and Katherine Russem at the Kat Ran Press, this one of only 4 copies in the deluxe binding by David Bourdeau. This copy includes a red cloth folder with several pieces of Kat Ran Press ephemera, a sheet stating the nature of the special bindings signed by Bourdeau, and two additional unique smoke drawings by Gohde (one of which is full page). The seven poems by Tracey Knapp. Eight illustrations by Kurt Gohde who "made over 800 original drawings with matches, kerosene lamps, 'snaps,' gold leaf, gun powder, and cigarette lighters. The title page and poems are each accompanied by one of these drawings" [colophon]. "Classical painters tried to freeze the moment immediately before an action took place. By drawing with smoke, I try to catch the moment immediately after. Fixing the smoke on paper stops the natural dissipation - alluding to the flame that produced it. These drawings exist like scars that tell the stories of their own creation." [artist note] Each copy is unique, as the illustrations are not prints but original "smoke" drawings. Gohde's technique ranges from scarring with a single match, to creating patterns with the smoke, to lighting a design laid out in gun powder. Illustrations, text, and binding create an harmonious whole. The book, the first of the press, sold out immediately and won critical acclaim in the book arts community. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Grey pastepaper boards with a red flame in the design, black morocco spine and edges; grey and red cloth dropspine case having a red flame recessed in the upper cover. 8vo. np [19 leaves plus illus). Numbered limited edition, this being 14 of 65 copies (40 numbered & 15 lettered) this copy a further limitation of 4 specially bound "at the request of Kat Ran Press" Fine in Fine Drop-Spine Archival Box.