Purgatory Pie Press (3 results)

Condition: Fine. Number 100. Signed by the book artists. An old record that has been re-produced by the Purgatory Pie Press with a new label printed on both sides: "Roberta 'N' Rob Smith - Lame!" and "Roberta 'N' Rob Smith - Worse!" This "random re-issue" pokes fun at bad records with lots of typos, slogans, and gimmicks. The words 'Lame / Stale' and 'Worse / Fukt-Fi' have been scratched into the record. The record sleeve is printed with information about the fictitious Roberta N Bob fan club and is also signed by them. The plastic bag that covers the sleeve has several stickers which further emphasize the poor record quality "30 years after . New British Infestation", "This record waz wuns mor popular than it is NOW", etc. The label, sleeve, and stickers are letterpress printed. PRI/010213. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Number 18 of 60 copies. A beautifully crafted datebook for 2013. Each binding is unique with different colors of leather and threads. Bound in full orange leather with a black leather tie. The interior is printed in week-at-a-glance format on repurposed nautical charts with wood type that is over 100 years old. The datebooks are a tradition for the Purgatory Pie Press - they have been producing limited edition datebooks since 1980! The leather is slightly discolored on the bottom edge of the rear cover. Designed by Esther K Smith, hand-set by Dikko Faust, and printed on a Vandercook 4 letterpress.…

Aluminum and paper construction, contained in 16mm film canister (24 cm diameter), with printed labels on and inside the upper lid. Fine. Copy #35 of an edition planned to consist of 74 copies. Signed by Bartalos, and by Dikko Faust and Esther K. Smith, principals of the press. The construction contains four accordion-fold booklets, letterpress printed on handmade, Khadi jute paper. Each is bound between aluminum covers, which are die-cut into the profile shapes of a cat, duck, crocodile and man's head. They're attached with nuts and bolts to a circular, revolving disk, hinged to a die-cut figure, in an allusion to multi-headed conceptions of Hindu deities. The whole, when folded, is then inserted into the felt-lined film canister, calculated as an ode to Bollywood. "I was in India on this trip with my college roommate, and I was really struck by the industrialization and the modernization of India, juxtaposed with the traditional aspects of it . It's such an extrasensory experience being in India, and I wanted to express that in this book. . Each of the heads tell a story and how the industrialization is changing India very, very fast" - the author/artist quoted in the context of an interview. At the time of cataloguing, the publisher's website and catalogue indicate a single copy of the work is available at $5000. Signed.…