Pie in the Sky Press ~ California
(Rebecca Chamlee)

study for the possibility of hope
By Dennis Phillips
Simi Valley, California: Pie in the Sky Press, 2010. Edition of 25.

6.5 x 6.5"; 36 pages. Handbound and printed on a Vandercook 4 and Vandercook 219 from Goudy Old Style, Futura wood type, and photopolymer plates on Somerset Book Wove paper. Cloth case binding with the text block sewn on ramie tapes into a Bugra concertina. Lettered copies are bound in full goat leather. A limited number of printer's proof have been left in sheets for bookbinders.

Rebecca Chamlee, blog: "Paul Vangelisti [poet, editor, educator] writes, 'Dennis Phillips, in study for the possibility of hope, embarks on a speculative and finally optimistic version of the pastoral, examining the poem’s (and our) place in the natural world. As he was also at the time working on his novel Hope (Green Integer, 2007), one can’t help noting the aptness of some of the poet’s musings in relation to that other world of language. For the poet, Hope becomes both a device and a destination: ‘a boat moored in a glassy cove.’ In this book, with ‘slow surface,’ its careful and often droll meanderings, Dennis Phillips shows himself to be a poet’s poet, a true, in Heidegger’s words, ‘shepherd of Being.’ The images of native California plants and the San Gabriel Mountains on double gatefold spreads reference the view from the poet’s porch where the poems were conceived.”
$300 (numbered copy)

Azusa: a Sequel
By Paul Vangelisti
Simi Valley, California: Pie in the Sky Press, 2009. Edition of 30.

6.5 x 10"; 44 pages. Printed on a Vandercook 4 hand-operated flatbed cylinder press on Rives Heavyweight paper. Text digitally set Seria Sans printed from photo-polymer plates. Of the edition of 30: 1 - 25 standard; 26 - 30 deluxe.

Standard: sewn on ramie tapes with printed endsheets, rolled endbands, cloth Bradel case binding with a printed label.
Deluxe: full leather case binding, text block sewn on cords with printed endsheets and handsewn silk endbands.

Poets & Writers: "Paul Vangelisti is the author of twenty books of poetry, as well as being a noted translator from Italian. Most recently, Days Shadows Pass was published by Green Integer in 2007. His and Lucia Re’s translation of Amelia Rosselli’s War Variations (Green Integer, 2005) won the 2006 Premio Flaiano in Italy and the 2006 PEN-USA Award for Translation. From 1971-1982 he was co-editor, with John McBride, of the literary magazine Invisible City and, from 1993-2002, edited Ribot, the annual report of the College of Neglected Science. Vangelisti is chair of the Graduate Writing program at Otis College of Art & Design."

An alphabet book of poetry by Vangelisti printed by Rebecca Chamlee.

another porch light burning ....

busted, cracked the mirror ...

zounds, you exclaim ...

$275 standard
$750 deluxe

Further Apocrypha
By Ray DiPalma
Simi Valley, California: Pie in the Sky Press, 2009. Edition of 40.

5.5 x 10.75"; 52 unnumbered pages. Printed on a Vandercook 4 flat bed cylinder press from digital 12 point Centaur and 24 point Arrighi types.
Collages by the poet using photo polymer plates on Zerkall Nideggen paper. Sewn on ramie tapes with printed Hahnemuhle Bugra endsheets. Of the edition: 35 standard, 5 deluxe. Standard copies with a quarter cloth case binding with sides covered in pastepaper made by the binder and an inset printed label. Deluxe copies bound in full leather with embossed airplane image on front cover in cloth covered clamshell box with embossed airplane images on cover.

Rebecca Chamlee: "Further Apocrypha contains twenty-seven previously uncollected poems written by Ray DiPalma between 1993 and 2009. These writings, both sensuous and lyric in their philosophic concerns, reflect what has often been noted as DiPalma's finely tuned ear and his preoccupation with testing the limits of language and form. Six of his original graphic works accompany the poems."
$325 standard
$550 deluxe

Young Manhood of Dave Chamlee
By William Zane Chamlee
Simi Valley, California: Pie in the Sky Press, 2008. Edition of 10.

6.5 x 9.375 x 1"; 40 unnumbered pages. Printed on a Hewlett Packard 9180 with archival ink. Type: Tribute, designed by Frank Heine. Bound in orange pastepaper with brown kangaroo leather spine. Housed in burnt orange cloth covered clamshell box with marbled paste paper lining.

Colophon: "This book marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the death of my father, William Zane Chamlee, the author of this story. At the same time, I hope to honor the memory of Floyd Chamlee, my father's first cousin, who died in July 2008. An excerpt of a letter written by Floyd is quoted in the foreword. "

Rebecca Chamlee: "... a book about my great grandfather told by my father in a Humanities term paper he wrote when he attended Claremont Men's College in the '50s."

A bildungsroman, pardner. After minimal background on young Dave Chamlee, the majority of the book recounts his years as a cowboy in Texas —gunfights, boots, and cowboy hats.
$225

Vanity
By Rebecca Chamlee
Los Angeles: Pie in the Sky Press, 1988. Edition of 25.

l4.75 x 10"; 12 unnumbered trapezoidal pages in which the top edge has been trimmed on an angle. Accordion structure. Text composed in Spartan, Futura, and Baskerville types. Printed on Roma paper. Zinc cuts colored using a letterpress method developed by Dikko Faust of Purgatory Pie Press. Written, designed and bound by the artist. Bound in cloth covered boards.

From Chamlee's Seven Deadly Sins series.

The narrator [Chamlee?]: "What I can't master I disdain." She decides "after 34 year of relative inactivity and about 20 years of cigarette smoking" to become a bicycle racer. Vanity, vanity, all is …
$125