Windowpane Press ~ Washington
(Bonnie Thompson Norman)

Hidden Agenda
By Bonnie Thompson Norman
Seattle: Bonnie Thompson Norman, 2006.

3.875 x 8.5"; 8 pages. Produced in a class taught by Norman. Students: Shannon Cook, Marianne George, Geoffrey Keyes, Happy Kush, Kim O’Neill, and Megan Zimmerman.

Structured as a vertical pad (like a reporter’s notebook). The single word on each page is partially obscured by a glassine-like wrap: question, question, wander, dream, sing, laugh, dance, create.
$25

Homeland Security
By Bonnie Thompson Norman
Seattle: Bonnie Thompson Norman, 2006.

5.25 x 8"; four panels. Constructed for easy standing display. Handset, printed and bound.

Unsubtle satire directed at the current notion of “homeland security” (circa 2006).

Between the lines of a quotation from Charles Evans Hughes (Chief Justice, 1930-1941) about safeguarding constitutional rights (free speech, press, assembly) are works by Carl Schurz (Union General, US Senator): "Our country ... when right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right."
$65

Step by Step ... a walking guide
By Bonnie Thompson Norman
2004. Limited Edition.

8 x 8.5" accordion fold letterpress printed and handbound with maroon wraps.

Bonnie Thompson Norman has been the proprietor of The Windowpane Press for over twenty years. Bonnie works full time as a hand bookbinder in a large commercial bindery. She also teaches classes in printing and bookmaking on evenings and weekends. This book was produced in one of her classes.
$50

The Seasons
By Bonnie Thompson Norman
2003. Limited Edition.

5 x 3.75” Set of four letterpress printed, handbound booklets in a printed gold card folder. Each booklet is covered in a different colored paper with different decorations indicating the seasons. Each has a single double page opening with a quotation for that season.

Better Than Gold
By Bonnie Thompson Norman
2002. Limited Edition.

5 x 8". 42 pages. Letterpress printed, handbound butterfly accordion book.

A collection of quotes celebrating friendship.
$55

On War and Peace
By Bonnie Thompson Norman
2002. Limited Edition.

7.75 x 6". Letterpress printed, handbound accordion book with single signatures sewn on mountain folds.

Musings on war and peace.

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come." —Carl Sandburg.

"What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict." —Simone Weil, 1937.
$25

A Mealtime Blessing
By Bonnie Thompson Norman
1995. Limited Edition.

1.5 x 8.5" with wooden boards. Slips into letterpress printed sleeve which is then laid in wooden box that matches boards. Printed on a Vandercook SP15 from photoengraved plates. Hand-sewn binding based on palm leaf book structures found throughout Central and Southern Asia which date from ca. 450 A.D. Artwork by Jennifer Kennard.

"I learned this mealtime grace when my children and I were visiting my dear friend Jill Littlewood who learned it from a friend of hers. The blessing concludes with a squeeze of hands that travels round the table from one person to the next. This book is meant to be like that pressing of palms: acknowledging with gratefulness family, friends and the bounties which some of us are so fortunate to receive." —Bonnie Thompson Norman.
$65