Search Results: Authors starting with G from Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC

Philly [Pkiladelphia, PA]: :: Candy Coated Press,, 2007.. Edition of 84. 7.5 x 10.75"; one sheet folded. producing four pages. Medium: Reductive woodcut (Shina) and hand-set lead type This book was created in twelve press runs with multiple reductive woodcuts and hand-set lead type. Numbered Caroline Garcia Ziegler: "'A Gaggle of Hoodlums' was written on the Louisiana artist's brisk, 6-block walk from school to the subway in Philadelphia. The seemingly nonsensical poem describes ogling and catcalling men who would band together to harass women, either from a stationary post leaning against buildings, or by actively getting in their way to block their path, forcing women to engage with them.  "The Loup Garou is a werewolf in Cajun folktales, and in the artist's family, if you were out 'rougarou-ing,' you were out causing mischief." Caroline Garcia Ziegler: "One of the things I really like about this book is that it's not an… Read More

California:: Cheri Gaulke.. Edition of 100. A pouch made of multi-colored Balinese sarongs contains an artists' book whose design is inspired by traditional palm-leaf books. Indonesian teak covers are held together by a central red cord and batiked wooden beads. Digitally printed on an Epson Stylus Photo 2200 with archival inks and Epson watercolor paper in an edition of 100. Each pouch is unique as each has its own batik design and cloth. Each book is signed and numbered. A true story. One lesbian trying to get pregnant; one gay man dying of AIDS. Life; death. The struggle to make life; the struggle to hold on to life. The ironies compound and cancel each other, until what is left are the dignity of struggle and sanctity of possibility. "Mark began dying of AIDS long before I began trying to conceive, both of us racing against the inevitability of time" begins the text, which tells the story of a journey between birth and death and of a magical trip to Bali. The imagery… Read More

Los Angeles, California:: Cheri Gaulke,, 2005.. Edition of 50. Marriage Matters was written by Cheri Gaulke and designed by Gaulke and Sue Maberry. It was color laser printed on iridescent Stardream paper in shades of purple, lavender, white and peach with a silk ribbon closure. The accordion spine allows the book's covers to open back and be held with the silk ribbon. With the alternating vertical and horizontal pages splayed open, the book's shape resembles a two-tiered wedding cake. This book is luscious looking and filled with juicy details! This book was made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department. In a year of intensifying public debate about the freedom to marry, Cheri Gaulke and Sue Maberry invited 10 lesbian and gay couples to go to Sears and have their portraits taken. The portraits were accompanied by personal stories and the story of Maberry and Gaulke's own 26-year relationship in an artists' book, Marriage Matters. The book… Read More

Los Angeles:: Stephanie Gibbs,, 2016.. Deluxe Edition of 15; Standard Edition of 50. . Standard version: Two volumes in paper slipcase. Volume 1: 4.25 x 5.5"; 56 pages. Volume 2: 4.25 x 5.5"; 16 pages including free end sheets; double-page Ouija board and Ouija pointer included. Sources: Eye engraving, Dioptrique oculaire, Chérubin d'Orléans, 1671; The Spirit Photographs of William Hope, National Media Museum; The Ouija, Kennard Novelty Co., Museum of Talking Boards. Printed onto Asuka papers using an Indigo printer. Bound in laminated Asuka paper over marbled paper with Joss paper endsheets. Stephanie Gibbs: "A fully assembled kit for contacting those who have passed beyond the veil. The user selects a spirit from the photograph album; chooses the emotional distillation that will pull that spirit into this realm; and uses the bell, book, and candle in the summoning. The enclosed Ouiji board then allows conversations between the realms. "The deluxe… Read More

Los Angeles:: Stephanie Gibbs,, 2018.. Edition of 16. 6.5 x 8"; 58 pages. Five color screenprints on hand dyed Crane's Lettra. Digital printing on paper vellum. Bound in quarter leather with abaca covers. Design, screenprinting, dying, and binding by Stephanie Gibbs. Numbered. Initialed by the artist.  References: Chiromantie, Johannes Hartlieb (ca. 1485-95);. Finger Prints, Francis Galton (1892). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UN (1948). Forensic Science in Criminal Courts, President's Council (2016). Gibbs accompanies excerpts from the "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" with texts regarding analysis for DNA, bitemark, fingerprint, footwear, hair, and firearms residue. Images of palm prints and fingerprints are interspersed throughout the text. Stephanie Gibbs: "Fate is written in many forms: in the line of a palm, in the swirls of a fingertip, in the helix of a chromosome.  "While forensic science is accepted by many as… Read More

Tucson, Arizona:: Spaceheater Editions,, 2016.. Edition of 50. 7 x 7"; 48 pages. HP Indigo printed on acid-free Mohawk Superfine paper. Signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon. Includes an original, signed, archival inkjet print, in an antique silkworm-patterned glassine enclosure attached to back pastedown. Text block has blackened head, tail, and fore-edges. Bound in pictorial paper boards. Spaceheater Editions: "Vergangenheitsbewältigung is the process of coming to terms with the past. Vergangenheit, 'past,' and bewältigung, 'overcoming the negative, repressed and incriminating mental injuries and guilt.' It is a German composite-word that is best rendered in English as a 'struggle to overcome the negatives of the past.' "In 2016 Garcia found a box of old family photographs in an antique store. The photographs chronicled the life of a small German-American boy named Klaus Lechner, starting around 1890 and continuing until the 1940s… Read More

New York:: Eleonora Gomez Bas,, 2003.. Edition of 3. 6 x 9" closed; extends to 114". Text in Spanish and English. Inkjet printing on archival paper. Concertina binding. Numbered. Includes separate colophon "a brief note on the content of this book". Eleonora Gomez Bas: "'Home and Back / Entrehogares' combines a poem in Spanish and English throughout the book, with accompanying photographs taken during my life in Caracas (Venezuela), and New York City.  "Having left my home country to move to Venezuela at 10, and later on moving to the United States at 24, attachment, separation, impermanence and adaptation have been major themes in my life since an early age. In my work 'Home and Back / Entrehogares', I use images and poetry to explore my journey of adaptation over the course of the past twenty years. Images blend into each other, depicting a process where I flow from place to place, sometimes more seamlessly than others. Words reflect my search… Read More

Boston, Massachusetts:: Eleonora Gomez Bas,, 2002.. One-of-a-Kind. 8" x 8.25" x 1.25"; containing 24 35mm black and white photo prints, mounted onto Strathmore Bristol cardstock. All photographs taken using Canon A1 and Canon Rebel SLR cameras, with Kodak T-MAX 400 film. Bound in cloth boards with titles printed on front cover. Laid in black glossy box with paper title label on cover. Elenora Gomez Bas: "I made this book at North Bennet Street School (Boston, MA) in 2002. My wish was to give a container to a select group of photos from a trip to 'Valle de la Pascua' (Estado Guárico, Venezuela), and from my hikes up 'El Avila' mountain (Caracas, Venezuela).  "My boyfriend and I went to 'Valle de la Pascua' (a 4 1/2 hour drive from Caracas) in 1999 to visit an altar built for the 'Anima de Pica'-Pica'; (Pica Pica Soul). Legend has it that a man by the name of José Zambrano was once found dead by a Pica-Pica plant (the… Read More

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2002.. Edition of 5. 11.5 x 7.25 x 1"; 5 two-page spreads. Star carousel book construction. Handcolored silkscreen prints. Bound in purple silk cloth with tipped on illustration. Linda J. Docherty, Catalog of the Exhibition, Catalog of the Exhibition: Threatened and Endangered: Artists' Books Created by Rebecca Goodale, 2004:"Because human encroachment on nature more often takes place incrementally, the damage may be done before the consequences are clear. Goodale's Northern Blazing Star anticipates a future in which species survival depends on artificial recreation of natural patterns. This star book focuses on Maine's last grassland, the Kennebunk Plains, home to the grasshopper sparrow, upland sandpiper, black racer, and Northern blazing star. The latter, a rare plant pollinated by yellow butterflies, depends on fire to preserve the character of its habitat. Under normal conditions, lightning would kindle the necessary fire, but the… Read More

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2014.. Edition of 8. 7.5 x 7"; hybrid structure of 13 flag pages plus an 8-page pamphlet sewn into on fold. Accordion structure extending from back pastedown. 13 flag pages have 3 asymmetric flags per page. Silkscreen and hand painting. Printed on [Katie] MacGregor Handmade Paper. Letterpress text designed and printed by Scott Vile of Ascenius Press. Bound in cloth-covered boards. Numbered. Signed by artist and poet.. Another in Goodale's Threatened and Endangered series. Rebecca Goodale's heart-shaped flags are accompanied by Miller's poem. Wild ginger, a low perennial with two heart-shaped leaves, is listed in Maine's threatened flora category. Cathleen Miller: "I am a poet, herbalist, artist, dreamer, gardener, systems-thinker, and special collections librarian living in Portland, Maine. I am an observer, in poems and in life. I write about connection, desire, place, the natural world, and bodies in space".

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2014.. Edition of 3. 18.5 x 20.5"; 11 leaves. Drypoints on Japanese paper. Chine collé. Bound in cloth-covered boards. Signed and numbered by the artist. Rebecca Goodale: "Some prints cut out and attached on top of others to create illusion of wading at the edge of the sea and shore. There is also a two-page spread of chine collé larvae. This large clothbound book is read vertically, the pages moving up and down like the surf." Part of Goodale's extensive "Threatened and Endangered Species" series. Casco Bay Estuary: "Horseshoe crab spawning surveys were initiated in Maine in 2001 in response to anecdotal reports that populations were declining. This project involves collaboration among the Maine Department of Marine Resources, Bar Mills Ecological, Maine Coastal Program, and many other organizations to establish quantitative baseline population data to determine whether horseshoe crab populations are… Read More

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2012.. Edition of 3. 6 x 6"; 18 unnumbered pages. Handmade paper folded into 5 French-folded signatures sewn onto two straps. Handcolored collagraphs and velvet flowers tell the wordless story. Banded with button and thread closure. Rebecca Goodale has been documenting the extinct and endangered flora and fauna of Maine since 1999. Her books in this area, as Nicholas Schroeder said in a review of her exhibition Lullaby, "vivify, celebrate, and elaborate them, often with poetic flourishes, rich metaphor, and abundance of color. Their surfaces mirror her subjects' habitats, and the rhythm of their bindings borrows from their intricate and animate patterns."  Once in a while she diverts from the specific theme of extinct and endangered to produce a playful book still with the theme of flora and fauna. Bird, String, Cricket is such a book. It is a playful book with bright colors and velvet flowers — a bird, a string, and a cricket.

Freeport, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2022.. Edition of 9. 6 x 7"; 13 unnumbered pages. Single sided accordion structure. Drypoints printed at Circling the Square Press in Gardiner then hand colored at the artists' studio in Freeport. 6 x 7"; 13 unnumbered pages. Single sided accordion structure. Drypoints printed at Circling the Square Press in Gardiner then hand colored at the artists' studio in Freeport. Scott Vile at Ascensius Press in Bar Mills designed printed the letterpress type. Bound in cloth boards with tent illustration tipped on front board. Laid in cloth covered clam shell box. Foil stamping on the box by Scott Mullenberg at Mullenberg Designs in Portland Bookbinding and box making by the artist. Signed and numbered by the artist and poet. Rebecca Goodale: "In preparation for the 2021 Belfast, Maine Poetry Festival, poet Jefferson Navicky and artist Rebecca Goodale rented a campsite at Wolfe's Neck Farm for six days. There they gathered ideas while sitting at… Read More

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2003.. Edition of 10. 5.5 x 11" with hand colored silkscreen prints. Two section binding with French folds and Japanese lace paper. Linda J. Docherty, exhibition catalog, 2004: "Goodale also uses words to place threatened and endangered species in relationship to other living things. In Beach Plum ... she describes a community of species that share a protected natural area, Beach Plum Farm, along the coast of Maine. Complementary colors - red and green, yellow and purple - visually reinforce this verbal image of a diverse yet balanced natural harmony. The final line alludes to the recurring cycle of the seasons and also to the imminence of change. When the 'old women who still make jelly' no longer come to harvest the beach plums, another tradition uniting humans and nature will be gone.

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2002.. Edition of 10. 8.5 x 8.5" with compound binding. Mixed media prints with hand lettering. Another of Goodale's books in the Threatened & Endangered series. Each in this series uses different structures and approaches to communicate knowledge and love of each species. In this book she used Japanese grass paper to cover the boards. Using this material allows the reader to have a tactile experience as well as a visual one with the subject of the book.

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2012.. Edition of 5. 5.5 x 5.5 x 3". Paper ribbon of MacGregor handmade papers. Paste papers, hand coloring, and silkscreen prints. In drop hinge cloth-covered clamshell box. Title handpainted on lid in Latin. Title, number, edition, year, and signature on pastepaper lining lid interior. Another work in Rebecca Goodale's Threatened & Endangered series, which presents the threatened and endangered flora and fauna of Maine. In Maine the small water lily is considered to be in the threatened status.  Here the delicate lily pads and one bloom are attached to paper ribbon anchored to the box's bottom. Nicholas Schroeder, Rebecca Goodale's Artists Books at UNE: "For those not solely concerned with Goodale's unorthodox field guide of endangered species, her most arresting ideas are to be discovered in the limitless ways in which she conceives of a book. 'Pygmy Pond Lily,' … exploits a jack-in-the-box motif to an… Read More

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2003.. Edition of 10. 19 x 12", two section french fold cloth bound book with hand colored silkscreen prints. To capture this animal listed on Maine's Threatened and Endangered Species list, Goodale visited the zoo where there were three little Lynx kittens. To be sure she captured their actual size on the pages she made puppets. From these she created "stencils" of the kittens in different playful positions.

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2009.. Edition of 6. 5.5 x 5.5 x 3.25" cloth-covered box holds a pamphlet and interior lid that can be lifted to display a string assembly on which hang 5 butterfly cutouts (printed on a Gocco printer). The outer box has an interior notch for the interior lid to rest upon. Five cotton strings attach to underside of interior lid and bottom of the box. A cotton loop on top of interior lid lifts the butterfly display. Laid in on top of the interior lid a 5 x 5" hand-stitched two-leaf title and colophon pamphlet with text handwritten in ink. The outer cloth-covered box, a drop lid clamshell box, has a cotton thread and bone closure. Rebecca Goodale: "Sleepy Duskywing was added to Maine's threatened species list in 2007. It is a small brown butterfly. "After opening the box and pulling the string upward five of the butterflies float up out of the box. With a string from the ceiling the loop on the interior lid can be tethered in place for… Read More

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2006.. Edition of 10. 5.5 x 15.5" closed, entends to 55". Silkscreen printed using a screen with wax resist. Interlocking accordion book bound into a flat backed, maroon cloth covered case. Another in Goodale's Threatened and Endangered series, a book of a flowing tangle of grapes.

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2007.. Edition of 8. 9" diameter paper discs printed on both sides; 12 leaves connected with black and white ribbon. Housed in 10 x 10 x 2.5" black cloth-covered box. The latest in Goodale's Threatened and Endangered Species series concerns the New England Cottontail. In 2007, the state of Maine added the New England Cottontail to its Endangered Species List. Goodale lists loss of contiguous habitat, highway deaths, and pollution as three major reasons for their decline. Rebecca Goodale: "It is a circle book, a little like an Alexander Calder mobile, discs that are printed 2 sided with imagery about a rare rabbit and all of its struggles with the human altered environment. This piece will be in an exhibit at the Portland (ME) Museum of Art this spring [of 2008].