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Four New Books by Peter and Donna Thomas 260 Fifteenth Ave. Santa Cruz, CA 95062 831-475-1455 [log in to unmask] Miniature books Lead Pencil (2002). The stub of a pencil is evocative of many thoughts and emotions: scrimping and saving, making due with what you have, being in elementary school, public libraries, government offices, taking tests... There is a Hungarian born sculptor, Andras Borocz, who is known for using pencils in his art work. Finding they shared birthdays led Peter to explore using pencils as construction materials and content for his own books. The concept for Lead Pencil was generated after making several one of a kind and small edition books dealing with pencils. The cover is a color photocopy on handmade paper made directly from pencils and pencil shavings. The text is letterpress printed on raised painted panels and a graphite colored wooden structure holding a used elementary school pencil is placed along the spine. This edition was made as a birthday book so there are 45 copies, in keeping with our tradition of birthday books. 2 x 2 3/4 inches. $75. Mineral King/Kern Loop (2001). A summer backpack trip Donna took in Sequoia National Park, a beautiful region of the southern high Sierra, was inspiration for this book which documents the trip in a free verse poem accompanied by eight watercolor illustrations. There are twenty-four accordion pages, printed with color photocopy on Peter’s handmade paper, and bound in a unique open case binding (developed by Peter & Donna) using Peter’s handmade paper. 2 1/8 by 2 1/4 inches. 40 copies. $48. Accordion to Zither: a musical ABC (2002). This alphabet book presents 26 of our favorite musical instruments in watercolor illustrations by Donna Thomas. This book has thirty accordion pages copied in color on Peter's handmade paper. The open case binding is covered in sheet music created by Donna on Peter’s paper. 1 7/8 by 2 3/8 inches. 100 copies. $52. A larger book: In the summer of 2001 Donna took a backpack trip with her friends Heather McPherson and David Worton through the wilderness of the northern boundary area of Yosemite National Park, walking some of the same trails California poet Gary Snyder wrote about as he walked and worked there years before. After returning from her trip, Donna heard Snyder read from his journals and was struck by the fact that though peoples responses to urban landscapes have drastically changed over the last fifty years, nature has remained a constant. Even though years separated the two trips, nature still presented the same physical challenges and inspires the same emotional responses. On the trip, Donna painted eleven illustrations. Heather kept an insightful journal. David, after being home awhile, put his ideas about our place in nature into essay form. Donna then took all these elements and wove them together, using calligraphy and colored inks, on Peter's handmade paper. Donna's paintings were mounted on the pages and the trail, with it's features of lakes, streams and mountains, was drawn across each page. The ten pages were color photocopied and woven together using handmade paper straps through each left hand margin. The book was bound with linen cloth over boards, a painting is inset on the cover, and it rests in a slipcase constructed of handmade paper over boards. Fifteen copies. 6 1/4 by 8 1/4 inches. $250. Please add $15 for insured postage. The original calligraphy and art work for this edition has been bound in a special one of a kind book. The front cover is a relief map of the areas Donna hiked, carved in balsa wood then covered with leather. Colored leather onlays were used to indicate the lakes and rivers of the region, the trail is marked and the title is painted on the cover using acrylic paints. The original illustrations are sewn onto the pages using colorful embroidery threads. The book rests in a clamshell box with leather spine and Peter's handmade paper covers. One copy. 6 1/4 by 8 1/4 inches. $950 for more information about these 4 new edition books (or Donna Thomas' new one-of-a-kind books) please contact: Peter and Donna Thomas 260 Fifteenth Ave. Santa Cruz, CA 95062 831-475-1455 [log in to unmask] __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]