Robin
Price, Printer & Publisher
Starr Mill Beverly Heights
Middletown, CT 06457
860.344.8644
rprice@wesleyan.edu
43 in
progress: winter 2006
11.75 x 8 x 1.5 inches, opens to 20 ft wide; 32 pages
with supplemental 32 pp booklet;
edition
of 86 plus 12 deluxe copies [summer 2007]
Text
excerpts from 86 books significant to me—mostly other
artist’s
books—were gathered using formulas based on the number
43, which was my age at the genesis
of the project. Paper maps
from locations along the 43rd parallels are bound in an accordion
that structurally supports the main text, which is printed
on graph paper and also hinged together as an accordion. A
Legend
Card and supplemental Annotated Bibliography are included.
43 was directly inspired by the fifty-volume Zweite Enzyklöpadie
von Tlön, by Ines v. Ketelhodt and Peter Malutzki
(http://www.tloen-enzyklopaedie.de/),
and Arplines by Harry Reese (http://www.turkeypress.net/).
A river, borrowed from the Ninja Press book The Real World
of Manuel Córdova, flows through the text sheets.
The unusual double-layer accordion, housed in a printed cloth-covered clamshell
box,
is co-designed and co-produced with Daniel E. Kelm at the Wide Awake Garage.
The typefaces are hand-set ATF Garamond and Kabel. Six colors printed letterpress.
All additional printing within the structure is letterpress, except for the
laser-printed text sheets of the 32 pp bibliography. $2250 (pre-publication
offer $2000 until
June 30, 2007).
43 Deluxe Edition, artistic collaboration with Daniel E. Kelm (http://www.garageannexschool.com/instructor_show.php?id=10),
12 copies. Information & price upon request.
