ravenpress ~ Colorado
(Alicia Bailey)

Boston: September 19, 1901 & October 15, 1901
By Alicia Bailey
Denver, Colorado: ravenpress, 2007. One-of-a-Kind.

4 x 5.25"; 6 pages including pastedowns. The 4 interior pages are hinged foldouts containing a 4 x 5" photographic plate on one side and a print from that plate on the other with identifying material on the verso in the hand of the photographer. Housed in custom 4.8 x 6.25" box of wood, bookcloth, and book board. Paper title label on box lid. Ribbon book lift in box. Materials: brass, book cloth, paper, book board, glass plate negatives, and inkjet prints.

These glass plate negatives and prints record Boston buildings of 1901.

Alicia Bailey: "The negatives in this book were made by my great-great-grandfather, George Carpenter Wheeler, in 1901. I scanned both the negatives and the disintegrating envelopes they were stored in and printed them via both ink and laserjet. The negatives and prints from the scans are bound wire-edge style."
$500

alphabet of desire
By Heidi Zednick
2006. Edition of 26.

6.75 x 6.75"; 26 pages. Over the edition, the layout of the book is consistent yet each print is unique. Text laserprinted on Arches watercolor paper. All images painted on an open screen with water based acrylic inks, then hand pulled for each of the four colors, allowing artistic variation within the edition. Bound drum leaf style. Spine is goat skin and Moriki hand embossed with letters of the alphabet. Covers are mono screenprinted with embossed alphabet on Rives BFK. Cover board edges wrapped with Moriki, endpapers handmade by Katie MacGregor, page edges treated with blue pigmented wax. Label is foil printed Goatskin.

This book is an extended love poem in the form of an abecedary. The illustrations are abstract expressions of the text. The text not only chronicles the celebration of a relationship but expresses a wish to not forget and to remain attentive to love.

a
at what moment
did I recognize
did I remember you?

$1200
Miniature version $75

Green is the Vein
Text by Barry Dempster
Lake City, Colorado: ravenpress, 2002. Edition of 5.

5.25 x 5.75 x .5"; 20 pages. Hand printed sheets, bound in drum leaf style, with transfer text and hand-applied color, plus two pastepaper endsheets. Page edges have been painted with bright green acrylic ink. The spine is goat with a leaf pattern embossed from one of the linocuts used in the text block. The two-layer covers have an underboard leafed with variegated metal, which is exposed by the top board cutaway. Top board debossed.

A song of erotic celebration.

Alicia Bailey: "The text is extracted from Barry Dempster's piece 'Green is the Vein...' published in the collection 'Letters from a Long Illness with the World: The D.H. Lawrence Poems' "
$400

Anguine
By Alicia Bailey
2001. Edition of 14.

4.5 x 5.5" slotted zig zag book. Housed in 6.5 x 5.5 x 1" box. With color monoprint images and laser transfer text on Rives lightweight buff paper. Page backs are hand painted and stenciled. The covers are snakeskin overlaid with hand-tinted sharkskin paper. The box is leather-spined with hand-painted cloth covers and a hand-painted, recessed label on the front cover.

Alicia Bailey: “A dream or perhaps a fantasy about waking with a snake under a starlit desert sky, this book describes a titillating experience in the Southwest canyon country.”
$400

Ab
By Aleka Keleman
2000. Edition of 12.

4.625 x 3"; 32 pages. This small book is bound in millimeter style with a maroon leather spine and Pamela Smith hand marbled papers on the covers. The title label is gold laserfoil printed on the same marbled paper and inset. Each of the 32 pages is hand painted with inks on Sumi paper. Text is laserprinted. Title page is heat embossed Gocco print with hand painting on Nideggan paper. The wraparound case is of burgundy book cloth and lined with Smith marbled paper with a complementary pattern to book's cover. The case cover is Gocco printed in gold. Illustrations and book design by Alicia Bailey.

Ab means, in Aramaic, “the breath of life.” The text of this book includes descriptions of the physiological workings of the circulatory system and Aubri Aleka Keleman's poem "Suggestions for Improving the Heart and Its Workings."
$250

Safe as Houses
Text by Betty Adcock
Lake City, Colorado: ravenpress, 2000. Edition of 6.

15 x 6 x 1"; 18 pages. Nine double-spread illustrations, color copied onto Mohawk superfine text. Housed in an arch-shaped lidded wooden box. Hinged lid designed as door. Bound in board style with exposed spine.

ravenpress: "Extracts from the poem 'To Sylvia, Grown Daughter.' This book pairs portions of the poem with 9 paintings by Alicia Bailey. Adcock's writing describes the 'house of your first name' and details points of access to that house (ordinary love, fury, or any dying)."

Betty Adcock is the author of five books of poems from LSU Press. She was a Guggenheim Fellow for 2002-2003 Adcock has twice been a Pushcart Prizewinner, and has won North Carolina's Governor's Medal for Literature, and the Texas Institute of Letters Prize.
$300

Tongue Tied
By Patricia Beers
1999. Edition of 25.

2.5 x 3.75 x 4"; six panels. Text is laser print on lace paper. Artist's photographs are inkjet printed on sumi paper. The two-sided accordian book is hinge-bound with 16 penny nails and housed in a nailmesh and wood structure.

Alicia Bailey: "The poem by Patricia Beers describes the almost unbearable results of a lifetime of keeping silent. Please handle carefully, could cause injury or pain. The artist's photographs allude to bondage and repression. Object and text initially hidden by the photographs are revealed as the reader interacts with this book."

I WAS BORN
TONGUE-TIED
AGES LATER
HERE
COMES
ONCE
MORE
THE
SUFFOCATOR

$140

Jump
Text by Annie Dillard, Aubri Keleman, and Heidi Zednik
Lake City, Colorado: ravenpress, 1998. Edition of 25.

8.5 x 8.5" closed; 8.5 x 25.5" extended; 22 leaves. French door construction. Bound with three brass rings on each side. Images and text: black-and-white and color copies on transparent stock, color inkjet on Arches 90 lb. rough watercolor, 90 lb. cover and transparency, laserprint on a variety of text weight papers. Hand painted Arches cover. Cover: momi wrapped museum board with Canson endpapers. Endpapers: hand applied enamel and stampings. Title on cover: black and white xerox transfer. Black velcro closures.

Excerpts from Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Aubri Keleman's "Someone Has Made a Mistake These Women Are Fish," and Heidi Zednik's "Skinning Blue."

An inventive examination of gravity, both physical and metaphorical. French door books are sometimes irritating because of the need to rebuild the sequence. Jump more than repays the effort.
$125

Prophet
By Anne Okon
Lake City, Colorado: ravenpress, 1998. Edition of 12.

5 x 2.25" casing with 2.25 x 5 x 1.75" scroll. Materials: book board, wood, acrylic, black and white laserprint, screen, plastic, metal beads, ribbon, decorative papers, and bookcloth. Printed on color inkjet. Ribbon scroll mounted on wood dowels; dowels turn to allow text to be read. Ribbon-tie closure. Encased in hardcover paper-covered boards with paper title label.

A failed relationship is presaged by an invasion of bluebottle flies: "Something died somewhere." The poem (the Michigan poet's first published work?) is printed on a scroll mounted in a wooden frame with hinged cover.
$140 (Last Copy)

Mexico Stories
By Carolyn Hull
1997. Edition of 100.

5.75 x 4"; 24 pages. Bound in a dos-a-dos-a-dos pamphlet stitched wraparound cover. Cover 130 lb. cotton watercolor paper with hand applied acrylic patterning and tipped in cover illustration and title. Text and title page illustrations laserprinted on 80 lb. Howard Mill crushed leaf paper. Illustrations color inkjet on mulberry paper tipped in. Decorative page elements hand stamped. With dyed cotton string and coconut beads wrap for closing.

Carolyn Hull: "I had the privilege of working with Clark Blaise at the Latin American Writers' Workshop in January 96. These stories come from that magic and surreal time. My own heritage growing up along the El Paso/Juarez border is similar to these stories. To quote Robert Bly, my soul is here for its own joy. I am here to interpret one dimension for another."
$35