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Books and Vines is coming back online!

31 Wednesday Jul 2013

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Chris Adamson’s remarkable blog Books and Vines has been inactive for some time but Chris has not disappeared from the planet. We’ve maintained infrequent contact over the months and today I had an email from him saying he’ll be back with the blog soon.

Books and Vines is a remarkable private endeavor by Chris that reviews fine press books of past and present with good photos, and detailed descriptions of the work. Chris is not in the “trade”, he is not a dealer or maker, he just has a love of fine books. I’ve been fortunate enough in the past to have books reviewed and I count Chris as one of my favorite collectors because of his passion about books, their creators and the process of their creation. In the absence of print media dealing with fine press books like the now long gone Fine Print a well rounded blog such as Books and Vines provides a resource for producers of these books as well as excitement for those who collect where so many reviews, observations, timelines and other information is so conveniently located in one place.

If you like wine then you will enjoy Books and Vines all the more because as the second half of the title implies Chris also has a passion for the fruit of the grape.

Click the link and bookmark it my fellow lovers of the book. Keep checking back in the coming weeks to see what the new incarnation might be.

“The Path” now completed

09 Thursday May 2013

Posted by in Books, Letterpress, PR and Media releases, The Path

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Center Spread

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As promised, here I present to you the first new book for 2013.

The Path
Half title page
Title Page
Final page
Inside back cover
Sigrid performing
Sigrid signs the books

 

The Path was a dream Sigrid had of having beautiful children and when shared with friends it quickly evolved into the children being songs and signified to her that it was about making and nurturing songs and the life of songwriting. Aside from the chorus the tale is told as an exact retelling although she relates “in the dream I was told that the bed comes from Guatemala and I just couldn’t fit that in gracefully. I love my dreams but that one was amazingly linear, complete and detailed. I put the last part, about “each of us have light” in because I worried about my audience feeling down about themselves. I wanted them to feel included in the dream and in the experience.”

When I heard this first it was around the proverbial north woods fire ring where several talented friends were taking their turns with guitars until the early morning hours. I was moved by the tune – it describes my own family here on the stream all so well. It didn’t take much effort to persuade Sigrid to allow me to turn it into a book. Keeping true to the original form, Sigrid has gone back into the studio and recorded this new track and it comes with the book. In the back cover there is a pocket with a download card from cdbaby so you too can enjoy this lovely magical lullaby as well.

The text is hand set in ATF Freehand type with Lydian Bold for display sizes and is printed on Hahnemuhle Schiller paper in 7 colors. The regular edition is set at 100 copies and they are bound in a limp binding of “Dark Roast” made by Paperworks Studio, a special commissioned paper I had made just for this project made of reclaimed cotton rag and spiced with fair trade coffee grounds (nicely buffered for your great great grand children’s future enjoyment.) There are also a set of three books that were printed on some quite vintage Fabriano Umbria stock I’d been saving which will be turned into presentation bindings in due time.

It’s now available to purchase on my website for $150.00 and can be found here:

http://deepwoodpress.com/books.html