Children in the Woods (Signed)
Eugene, Oregon: lone goose press, 1992.
Limited Edition.
#44 of a Limited Edition of 75 numbered copies signed by the author and artist. With relief prints by Margaret Prentice. Printed in the spring of 1992 by Sandy Tilcock at her lone goose press in Eugene, Oregon, with the assistance of Kathleen Wigley. Both the text, handset in Perpetua, and the relief images were printed on a Vandercook 219 proofing press. The text and cover papers were made by Margaret Prentice from the plant fiber abaca with patterns created in the paper's body by colored pulp. The book was bound and boxed at the lone goose press. This essay appeared in Crossing Open Ground and first appeared in Pacific Northwest, April 1982.
Sandy Tilcock's beautiful fine press edition of Lopez's essay on how to share the wonder of nature with children. "In the end, you are trying to make clear to them that everything found at the edge of one's senses - the high note of the winter wren, the thick perfume of propolis that drifts downwind from spring willows, the brightness of wood chips scattered by beaver - that all this fits together. The indestructibility of these associations conveys a sense of permanence that nurtures the heart, that cripples one of the most insidious of human anxieties, the one that says, you do not belong here, you are unnecessary."
Item #9019387-3/4 x 12-1/16", handmade paper over thin boards, deckled fore- and bottom-edges, unpaginated, illustrated with relief images, with printer's dark green silk clamshell box with paper title label .
Very fine in box.
Price: $1,250.00