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Alphabet books by Suzanne Thomas Weinert

 
   

This is Nothing New to Any Surfer Anywhere
Text by Tobias Weinert
Designed by Suzanne Weinert
Santa Cruz, California: Suzanne Thomas, 2009. Edition of 150.

2.25 x 2.75" ; 16 pages. Case-bound accordion book.

Collaboration between Tobias and Suzanne after the wedding. Text is from the journal of Tobias Weinert. Boards covered with map of Chile. Paper label title tipped on front board.

Colophon: "The text was handwritten and handpainted. Sketches were done in Chile".

We drove home with a few "maybe tomorrows" and a "perhaps the beach break" afternoons.

$75


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Just Because I'm Blonde
By Suzanne Thomas Weinert 
Santa Cruz, California: Suzanne Thomas Weinert , 2006. Edition of 150.

2.9 x 3"; 17 pages. Miniature accordion of reproduced photomontage tipped onto handmade paper. Paper-covered boards with tipped on title illustration.

Suzanne Thomas Weinert : "This book holds a very matter-of-fact poem about the assumptions people make. Text is composed from cut out letters pasted over photographs taken by [me], reproduced by color copying techniques."

Text excerpt: “Just because I'm blonde, doesn't mean I'm easy … Just because I like to kiss, doesn't mean I'm a whore ...”
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ABC North Shore of Kauai
By Suzanne Thomas Weinert 
Santa Cruz, California: Suzanne Thomas Weinert , 2007. Edition of 150.

2.5 x 1.25”; 10 pages. Case bound miniature flutter book. Color photocopies of original watercolors. Bound in orange and yellow floral Hawaiian print cloth. Paper title tipped on front board.

Suzanne Thomas Weinert : "Each letter in this alphabet book is illustrated with an image from the North Shore of Kauai. Hand-painted with watercolors on site. Color photocopies are bound in orange and yellow Hawaiian-print cloth."
$75

 

 


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Santa Cruz ABC's
By Suzanne Thomas Weinert
Santa Cruz, California: Suzanne Thomas Weinert, 2007. Open Edition.

2.75 x 2.25" closed; 28 pages. Miniature accordion. Color photocopies of original watercolors, outlined with black pen. Pages tipped onto light green paper. Blue paper-covered boards (cover paper handmade by Peter Thomas) with tipped on paper title.

Suzanne Thomas Weinert: "Each page of this alphabet book is illustrated with an image of Santa Cruz."
$75

 

 


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Coastal California
By Suzanne Weinert
Santa Cruz, California: Suzanne Thomas, 2009.

1.5 x 1.5"; 14 leaves. Accordion book. The text was handwritten and illustrations handpainted on handmade paper (paper by Peter Thomas, père).

Hardbound with band that has title tipped in. Paper covered boards.

Alternating pages of outlines of the state of California with hand-drawn images of the coast of California. Each outline stars the place illustrated. From La Jolla surfer out to the rocky beach in Humboldt.
(SOLD)

 

 


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Coffee
Text by Johann Sebastian Bach
Santa Cruz, California: Suzanne Weinert, 2009. One-of-a-kind.

1.5 x 1.5"; 14 leaves. Accordion book. Japanese stab binding. The text was handwritten and illustrations handpainted onto handmade paper that was then tipped onto sugar packets. Hardbound with title tipped in. One packet of sugar comes with the book.

Quote from Bach: "Without my morning coffee, I am just like a dried up piece of roast goat."

(SOLD)

 

 


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A Day in the Life of a Surfer
By Tobias Weinert and Suzanne Lydia Thomas
Santa Cruz, California: Suzanne Thomas Weinert, 2008. Edition of 15.

2.5 x 2" ; 18 pages. Case-bound accordion book. Paper-covered boards with illustrated title label on front cover.

Suzanne Weinert: "Each page of this book is illustrated with colorful, detailed watercolor paintings, outlined in black ink. The text was handwritten and hand painted, then color photocopied. Accordion bound in blue paper, which was handmade by Peter Thomas."

Text by Tobias Weinert. Illustrations by Suzanne Thomas Weinert. A collaboration between Tobias and Suzanne prior to wedded bliss.

Time to Wake up. Check the Surf report. It's going to be good today ...

(SOLD)


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Seashells
By Suzanne Thomas Weinert 
Santa Cruz, California: Suzanne Thomas Weinert , 2009.
One-of-a-Kind.

2.5 x 2.25"; 10 pages. Miniature accordion. Illustrations tipped in. Paper covered boards. Handmade paper by Peter Thomas.

Suzanne Thomas Weinert : "This book contains the popular tongue twister 'She sells seashells by the seashore…' Illustrated with a collection of five colored pencil drawings of shells, outlined in black ink. Sketched on the beaches of Kauai, Hawaii. ... A shell from Kauai is inlayed on the cover."
(SOLD)

 

 


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The Wine
By Suzanne Thomas Weinert 
Santa Cruz, California: Suzanne Thomas Weinert , 2008. Edition of 150.

1.75 x .875"; 12 pages. Miniature accordion illustrated and bound by Suzanne Thomas Weinert . A severed wine-bottle cork serves as the boards. Band closure.

A quotation from Homer's Odyssey (Book XIV} illustrated by Thomas: "The wine urges me on / the bewitching wine/ which sets even a wise man to singing/ and to laughing gently/ and brings forth words / which were better unspoken."
(SOLD/Out of Print)

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