Notes (toward a poem about play); | illustration and design by Tara Bryan
St. John’s, Newfoundland: Running the Goat Press, 2009. 19.2 x 15.1 cm closed. Editioned artist’s book, housed in a gatefold wrapper of pink St-Armand paper with blue suede ties. The wrapper’s upper flap is lettered in black. Unpaginated. Eight uniformly cut boards, covered on both sides and joined by two sheets of folded and printed paper. A few spots of dried adhesive, else fine. The structure is inventive: the text pages are concertina-fold and are adhered to boards cut to a standard octavo size. The arrangement allows the reader to leaf through the text pages as one would with a more conventional book. But the book may also be opened in reverse, and unfolded into a game board. The game board measures 37.7 x 59.1 cm when opened. The text was handset in Fournier and printed by Marnie Parsons on Zerkall Book paper at Running the Goat Press. The game board was screenprinted at Living Planet Studio. The book and wrapper were designed, illustrated, and assembled by Tara Bryan. From an edition of (roughly) 95 unnumbered copies. Signed in pencil by Don Austin and Tara Bryan on the verso facing the colophon page. Item #425
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