All 25 copies of "Trees" are complete now. This is copy B in its box for your viewing pleasure. It has been an incredible journey that I'm glad I was able to take with Andrea Boltresz.
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Pumping Iron...
Some bindery tasks are more glamorous than others. While I love working with leather, silk, and gemstones, sometimes it's just printable cotton. Here I am applying heat to set the ink on some covers for our as-yet unannounced printed cover edition of Trees (more about this later). At any rate, it takes two minutes at the highest heat setting to make the ink from my ink jet printer permanent. I had to stand over the hot iron for the two minutes per cover, the least you could do is watch me doing it. 😂
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I failed to note in the video how PURPLE 💜 the homemade book is. With much thanks to John. ☺️
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Trees #14 gem: Hessionite Garnet
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Trees #13 gem: Pearl
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Gray Goose Press.
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Trees #12 gem: Pearl
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Trees #11 gem:Pearl
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I haven't done one of these in awhile so here's Unusual Minibook #8
Today we have "REM Magic Nursery Rhymes" by REM Miniatures. Published by Bob Massmann in 1977 in an edition of 250 copies, it measures 2¼"×2" and contains 36 pages. What makes this one so special is the hold-to-the-light pictures humorously illustrating the rhymes. As far as I know this is the only modern miniature book utilizing the technique.
I've always loved showing this book because of its uniqueness, but now I've got a great story to go along with it. In the introduction to the book Bob mentions his collection of hold-to-the-light cards that inspired the book. Well, not quite two years ago I was contacted through Facebook by a daughter-in-law of Bob's. She had some of his things but was downsizing and wondered if I would be interested in them. I of course was, so she sent them and I made an offer that was accepted. I ended up with some neat things that came from my hero's collection so I was happy. I thought that was the end of it but a couple of months later she contacted me again, stating that she had found some more of Bob's things and would I be interested. It turns out the things were his modest collection of hold-to-the-light cards! Not only were there 37 vintage cards, but the very first set of illustrations, assembled to see how they'd be able to be bound into a book. They came to me in heavy plastic sleeves as Bob placed. I intend to keep them as the Massmann collection of hold-to-the-light cards in the sleeves he put them in.
I've shown a few pages from the book along with three of Bob's antique cards. Enjoy! ☺️
With thanks to Sherrie Massmann
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Trees #10 gem: Pearl
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Trees #9 gem:Peridot
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Trees #8 gem: Pearl
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Trees #7 gem: Pearl
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When I mentioned to a couple different people that I'd gotten in a small miniature book reference library they told me I should do an unboxing video, so to appease them here it is. Now I hate listening to or seeing myself so I shot it in one take and am posting it unedited. This may be 7½ minutes of crings, I don't know. If it I well recieved I'll consider doing more, providing I can find an editor to clean things up. Anyhow, let me know what you think of it, and if you'd like to see similar content in the future.
Oh, while these books aren't on the website yet, we do have a good selection of other reference books available on the website already.
https://booksbypress.com/product-category/reference/
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Trees #6 gem: Black Spinel
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Trees #5 gem: Peridot
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Trees #4 gem: Pearl
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Trees #3 gem: Ruby Garnet
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Trees #2 gem: Ruby Garnet
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