BUG-EYED by [Blocker, Mare] - 1994

Ames Lake:: MKimberly Press,, 1988.. Edition of 88. 5 x 8.5"; 26 pages. Letterpress printed on Ragston paper, with an Astrolux dust jacket cover. Lino cuts. Sewn binding. Signed and numbered by the artist. Letterpress printed speciment book to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the M. Kimberly Press. A fun Type Specimen book that pairs the Type with guides to titems of curiosity and interest. For example, Cameo type is paired with poisons. Skulls are printed with the names of poisons underneath each - snake venom, puffer fish, datura, tobacco, nux vomica, foxglove, hemlock, draino. Additional types and guides are News Gothic /Spontaneous Combustion; Barnum / Spotted Animals; Stymie Outline / Slug Extermination; and so on.

M Kimberly Press, 1988. Limited Edition. Unknown. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Signed and numbered limited edition of 88 copies; this being #52. Letterpress printed to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the M. Kimberly Press. Illustrations are linoleum cuts with both image and text. Non-adhesive unsupported sewing structure in an Astralux letterpress printed cover.

Ames Lake:: M Kimberly Press,, 1991.. Edition of 150. 4.75 x 7.5"; 11 unnumbered pages. Linoleum cuts. Text in Times New Roman. Printed on Rives BFK and Folio. Accordion folded pages pasted to one end of paper wrapper. Title letterpress printed on front. Signed and numbered by the artist. Inscribed to Chris Stern on the colophon. Colophon:" This book, illustrated in the tradition of Hans Holbein the Younger whose woodcuts have been a great source of inspiration, was printed on the occasion of The M Kimberly Press' Seventh Anniversary." The last lino cut image portrays the artist as a medieval scribe. Blocker's lino cuts show Death lurking in the shadows giving voice to the brief introductory story of a poor man who says to Death when he knocks on his door "You do not honor the rich or the poor, the old or the young, the beautiful or ugly. To you all are the same."

Jerome, Arizona:: MKimberly Press,, 1995.. Edition of 50. 7.75 x 7.375"; 6 illustrated pages. Accordion structure. Hand colored linoleum blocks. Printed on Magnani Incisioni. Hand-colored linocuts with 4 printed on the accordion folded paper strip of 4 panels. Pasteborad covers mounted on back of of first and last panels. Two remaining linocuts mounted on outside covers. Colophon printedd on verso. Signed and numbered by the artist. Block-printed humorous party games satirizing artists. Included are "Pin the Ear on Van Gogh", "Spin the Squeeze Bottle with Jackson", "Frida's Archery Set", "Dot to dot Seurat", and "Horseshoes a la der Blaue Reiter".

M. Kimberly Press, 1999. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Fine. Copy #15 of 100 numbered copies signed by artist Mare Blocker. Illustrated with twenty b/w linoleum cuts printed on Magnani Pescia, mounted on black stock paper with silver letterpress text. Double loop wire bound, with tan paper covered boards and mounted title label on front cover. A Fine copy.

Jerome, Arizona:: MKimberly Press,, 1999.. Edition of 100. 7.5 x 10"; 23 single sided pages. Twenty linoleum block illustrated short stories. Illustrations tipped on to black acid-free "memory book" pages with photo corners, album-style. Text printed with silver ink and Century Schoolbook type. Illustrations printed on Magnani Pescia paper. Reassembled spiral bound 'memory book' (purchased, disbound, printed and reassembled). Signed and numbered by the artist. . Mare Blocker, Colophon: "I have always loved to tell stories. This book celebrates twenty years of mining my loved ones for material for my work. Quite simply, thanks to my sixty-three first cousins, my bazillion other cousins, my friends, and of course my immediate family. "  We all have family stories and even maybe weird relatives. Blocker sets down twenty remembrances of family history illustrated with her whimsical art. Stories range from hunting frogs, planting watermelons and stinging bees to… Read More

Jerome, AZ: M Kimberly Press, 1999. First Edition. Fine. Artist's book made of 20 single-page short stories, printed letterpress in silver ink on black paper. Each story is illustrated with a linoleum block print mounted like a photograph using paper corners above the story. The form of the book is a spiralbound album that was disassembled, printed, and reassembled. The colophon reads: "I have always loved to tell stories. This book celebrates twenty years of mining my loved ones for material for my work. Quite simply, thanks to my sixty-three first cousins, my bazillion other cousins, my friends, and of course my immediate family. Now the facts-The acid-free recycled paper 'memory books,' were printed with silver ink and Century Schoolbook type. The linoleum cuts were printed on Magnani Pescia. Much appreciated technical assistance provided by Kelly Roberge, George Glassman, and Buzz White." 23 leaves. 7-1/2 by 10 inches. A fine copy, issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. Number 16 of 100.… Read More

Jerome, Arizona: The M Kimberly Press, 1999. Limited Edition. Boards with Metal Spiral Binding. Fine. Mare Blocker. 4to (7 x 10 inches). Unpaginated (20 leaves, followed by colophon). Printed recto only, with story-caption printed in silver beneath a mounted linocut printed in black. Khaki-colored boards bound with metal spiral, printed paper title label mounted on front board. Signed by Blocker in silver ink at the colophon. Of an edition limited to 100 copies, this copy is hand-numbered 14. The Seattle-native's graphic narrative of humorous and occasionally disturbing anecdotes from her youth. Presented in a functional notebook binding from her M Kimberly Press. A charming production.

Arizona:: MKimberly Press,, 1999.. One-of-a-Kind. 5 x 8"; 3 double-page illustrations. Two-layer spreads with cut out scenes. Acrylic ink on paper. Boards covered in the same background illustration. Title hand scripted on front board. Housed in a cloth-covered lipped clamshell box. William Blake's influence can be seen in Blocker's work. Her editioned work includes Proverbs of Hell. This is a unique piece depicting three scenes of purgatory: love, hell, heartburn.

Seattle, Washington:: MKimberly Press,, 2014-15.. Edition of 31. 5 x 7.25"; 62 pages including pastedowns. Carved linoleum. Ink and paper. Bound in shirt-cloth covered boards with exposed stab binding. Signed and numbered by the artist. Mare Blocker: "I started working on this book in 2011, and the nascent idea was a commonplace book. I collected little slogans and bits of poetry to include in the book. I cut a few of them in linoleum. Life happens, things change and my project changed forms too. Those first blocks didn't seem appropriate anymore, but they'll appear later in a different project. I love the word phant'sy. It's the archaic form of fantasy, and as a story teller I try to follow my own curiosities and fancies. "The book now chronicles my journey of the loss of several family members, celebrations of life, the birth of two new family members, and the garden I inherited. Many of our verses are collected in one vessel. The majority of images are… Read More