Author: Jess
Illustrator: Jess
Size: 30 x 18.4 cm
Binding: Boundin Fiji Unryu paper and cloth over boards
Pages: 24
ISBN: 0-918395-03-8
Edition: Letterpress printed in Ehrhardt type on Basingwerk parchment; 120 copies.
Price: $225
Description: First printing of a collection of eight dreams from 1956 to 1966 by the renowned painter, pioneer of West Coast Assemblage and companion of poet Robert Duncan. The work includes a frontispiece pen and ink drawing by the artist.
Reviews: "Critical Dreams is very much an artist's book ... outstanding presswork ...lovely binding ... near perfection." -- Fine Print
Author: Alastair Johnston and Darrell Gray,
with Guessed Appearances by Anselm Hollo and Allan Kornblum
Illustrator: Alastair Johnston
Size: 45.8 x 15.5 cm
Binding: folded sheets in a complex hard-to-open garishly overprinted envelope of sorts
Pages: 24, roughly speaking
ISBN: No ISBN
Edition: 150 copies
Price: $40
Description: In May 1987, devastated by the death of poet Darrell Gray I began looking through a pile of collaborations we had written on a trip to Iowa City in Summer 1978. I began to edit them, secure in the knowledge that Darrell would not object to any cuts or emendations I made. To fully understand these poems you had to have been there. A casual reader will write them off as gibberish; a scholar of Joyce or Pound can anticipate hours of fun trying to separate the many obscure references to literature and art from alcohol-induced delirium.
Author: Alastair Johnston
Illustrator: Alastair Johnston
Size: 11 x 25.5 cm
Binding: Single hole with a leather lace attached to the cover which is made from a truck mudflap and cardboard.
Pages: 15, printed on one side
ISBN: No ISBN
Edition: 12 copies
Price: $400
Description:In January 2001 I took a road trip through Brazil, from Salvador da Bahia to Rio de Janeiro (& back). Apart from the scenery of Minas Gerais and other states we passed through, I noted the slogans on the backs of market trucks (that we were often stuck behind on the treacherous, ill-paved roads): religious, humorous or obscure homilies about life from the trucker's viewpoint. I began compiling these and on my return to Berkeley in May 2001 I made a book using nineteenth-century display types to approximate the weird letterforms favoured by the truckers. I also made linoblocks of the pinstriping designs that also adorned the trucks for the background. The work includes an English translation and notes.