Mornings at Jack Pine first debuted earlier this spring at the Manhattan show and since my return to the frigid north I have been working to get this new version out. I am pleased to present the first book in my Midwest Author Series in a paper cover edition. As promised back in April, the type went back to work on my ATF Little Giant #6 cylinder press to create an extended edition with hopes it will reach a broader audience.

This moving body of work by Jerry Dennis is accompanied by 10 wood engravings by Glenn Wolff. Jerry turns his keen naturalist’s eye inward as well as outward, finding in the landscape of northern Michigan a mirror for grief, love, mortality, and the fierce pleasures of being alive. Graced with Glenn Wolff’s exquisite illustrations, Mornings at Jack Pine is a small book with large ambitions — funny, tender, elegiac, and shot through with the kind of hard-won wonder that only comes from paying close attention to the world for a very long time.

This is, essentially, the same book but re-imposed to be printed in 4 sections instead of 5 to facilitate the sewing of so many books and it is printed on domestic paper stocks. It is printed in 2 colors instead of 3 and I printed the wood engravings from reproductions on photopolymer because the original blocks were very temperamental. Because of difficulties getting the paper in the weight I started with the edition is limited to 125 copies instead of the 250 noted in the colophon.

Composed in Baskerville and Eusebius type it is printed on Mohawk Superfine 70lb text enclosed in French Paper Dur-O-Tone 100lb cover stock printed in black and copper inks. It is a sewn binding glued into the cover wrap.

The deluxe copies are sold out but this version and the lettered copies are available on my newly updated website here for $70.00

More details about the book can be found here on an earlier blog post. The bindery monkeys will be here this week to get as many sewn as possible for the forthcoming release party in Traverse City, Michigan.

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