Maret Russell Printer (2 results)
More imagesDispatches From The Lizard Brain: A Descriptive Bibliography of Ninja Press
[Ninja Press] Maret, Russell, printer, book artist and afterword; Nina Schneider, bibliographic descriptions; Carolee Campbell, commentary; Harry Reese, foreword; Annie Schlechter, photography
Published by Russell Maret, New York, 2022
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Number 37 of 102 copies, signed by the authors and craftspeople involved in making the book. This is one of the 77 numbered copies that includes tip-ins of original material. This magnificent production documents the life and work of Carolee Campbell, founder of Ninja Press a…nd one of the country's most noted book artists. The foreword and afterword beautifully describe Campbell's ethos as an artist and bookmaker that has informed her work since she began making books in 1984. Russell Maret writes of her: "It takes a special kind of person to know that what one is working on is not ready to be discussed. It takes someone.who unhurriedly allows her books to germinate in her lizard brain until they are ready to be dispatched into the world. With each new book Carolee teaches the rest of us how it should be done - not how to make books like hers , but like her, to make books the way the books want to be made." The extensive annotated bibliography of the works produced by the press includes books, broadsides, commissions and collaborations, ephemera, and writing, reviews, criticism. The annotations include comments by Carolee on the making of each book or broadside. There is also a section describing the Ninja Press type collection and an index. There are beautiful vintage paper tip-ins throughout of papers used, and pages from some of the books and broadsides. Accompanied by a booklet reprinting two essays by Carolee. Dispatches from the Lizard Brain was designed and edited by Russell Maret, and printed by him and Sarah Moody. The primary text face, Carolee, was designed by Maret and printed from photopolymer plates on Twinrocker Handmade Paper. The titles are set by Felix Titling. The cover design was design was adapted from an ornament by Campbell. The blue green binding with a leather spine was designed and executed by Amy Borezo at Shelter Bookworks. The book is housed in a handsome brownish orange cloth covered portfolio with a white title label. In fine condition. Folio measuring 15 x 9 inches. 128 pages. PRI/060222. Signed.
More imagesPublished by Russell Maret, 2021
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United KingdomBlackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA
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Add to basket66/90 COPIES printed on Zerkall Book and Twinrocker Handmade papers, signed by Maret at the colophon, folio, 8vo, 8vo, binding by Amy Borezo, the folio in a sewn binding of white boards, lettered in black to upper board, the 8vos both charcoal grey cloth lettered in white to upper board, 3 vols together in three-panel grey cloth… dropback box, the folio in a vitrine (to ironically present it as 'an immutable relic'), fine condition. The culmination of a five-year progression towards the incorporation of more political themes into his printing having observed its oblique presence in some of the literary choices of work such as 'Character Traits', and used his ephemeral printing as an outlet for more emotional responses to the state of the nation. The present work was printed (by Maret and Sarah Moody) during three months of unrest and upheaval in the public sphere Biden's defeat of Trump and the attack on the Capitol building that ensued; it comprises three printings of the same essential text, the largest with the full text of the Constitution and its 27 amendments in a typeface (as elsewhere, Maret's own design) that obstructs without impairing the legibility of this familiar text, and then two smaller volumes 'arrived at via the most prevalent modes of constitutional interpretation: selective redaction and algorithmic skewing' i.e., one achieved through omission of key words and phrases (the lacunae achieved by using the underside of the type, Maret's Hungry Dutch), the other by a process of circumtraduction enacted via Google Translate, which passed the original through Esperanto, Russian and Chinese, before translating back into English. Together, the three 'are intended to embody the fractured state of political discourse in America' (Prospectus). They are additionally, though it need hardly be stated, further evidence of Maret's excellence in the fields of lettering, printing and book design. [With:] Maret (Russell) The United States Constitution and Amendments, Redacted. New York: Russell Maret, 2021, 66/1,000 COPIES, four broadsides in original titled envelope, with the text of the redacted volume from the large work these 'roughly the size of the parchments on which the original Constitution manuscript was written in 1787' (Printer's website).
