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See More... Esslemont, David CHILI: A PICTORIAL RECIPE
Decorah, IA David Esslemont 2013 folio Japanese stiff paper wrappers 39 full woodcuts
Printed in an edition of 30 copies, of which this is one of 20 trade copies. Inspired by winning a chili cook-off at his home in northeast Iowa, David Esslemont presents his prize-winning recipe in thirty-nine woodcuts in this hand-crafted book. Starting from scratch, he toasts ancho chiles, makes vegetable stock, grinds beef from farmer friends, adds homegrown garlic, tomato paste and much more . . . . The final touch is a topping of spicy sour cream garnished with julienned fresh fresno, habanero and jalapeno chiles.

Twenty copies in Japanese stab-sewn paper covers. Hand-printed from the original woodblocks on Zerkall mould-made paper 15 x 11 inches (380 x 280 mm).
Price: $ 1,200.00 other currencies Order nr. 115807

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See More... Esslemont, David CHILI: A PICTORIAL RECIPE
Decorah, IA David Esslemont 2013 folio full pigskin leather, cloth clamshell box 39 full woodcuts
Printed in an edition of 30 copies, of which this is one of 10 deluxe copies. Inspired by winning a chili cook-off at his home in northeast Iowa, David Esslemont presents his prize-winning recipe in thirty-nine woodcuts in this hand-crafted book. Starting from scratch, he toasts ancho chiles, makes vegetable stock, grinds beef from farmer friends, adds homegrown garlic, tomato paste and much more . . . . The final touch is a topping of spicy sour cream garnished with julienned fresh fresno, habanero and jalapeno chiles.

Bound in white alum-tawed pigskin with a design painted in acrylic ink of a bowl of chili on a white linen table cloth, with blind and gold tooling, sewn on linen tapes with hand-sewn headbands and leather jointed paste-paper endleaves, in a felt-lined cloth-covered drop-back box tablecloth. Hand-printed from the original woodblocks on Zerkall mould-made paper 15 x 11 inches (380 x 280 mm).
Price: $ 4,800.00 other currencies Order nr. 115806

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See More... (McCurdy, Michael) Kessler, Milton WOODLAWN NORTH: A BOOK OF POEMS.
(Boston) Impressions Workshop (1970) 4to. cloth unpaginated
Limited to 125 numbered copies. This copy is a printer's proof. A collection of poetry by Kessler (1930-2000), American poet and Professor of English at Binghamton University. Preface by Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), American poet and short story writer. Etchings executed and printed by Robert Marx. Designed, handset in Garamond, and printed on Velke Losiny (a Czech handmade paper) by Michael McCurdy. Handbound in cloth by Ivan Ruzicka. Signed by the poet, Marx, and McCurdy on colophon.
Price: $ 1,200.00 other currencies Order nr. 114887

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See More... (Penmaen Press) GENESIS.
(Boston The Pendle Press 1967) folio. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards 6 pages
Limited to 20 copies (Peich 1). McCurdy's first published work. The 2nd and 3rd chapters of the book of Genesis in the Old Testament of the Bible. Bound in quarter blue patterned cloth and light blue-gray Fabriano paper boards. Handprinted on double-fold Japanese Masa paper by McCurdy. Pendle Press on colophon. The press's name was changed to Hillside Press, then the Penmaen Press, when McCurdy found other printers using the same names (Finding Aid, Penmaen Press records, Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs). Broadside "An Introductory Comment as to the Aims & Aspirations of the Hillside Press" laid in. Very rare. Also present is another version of this broadside in a different typographic arrangment with a pencil note that states that this version was not used. Cloth portion of boards stained. Paper portion of boards lightly faded at edges.
Price: $ 2,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 114862

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