[Janus Press] Sgantas, Judy FaircloughBiblio.com
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réf. 9777Newark VT: Janus Press 2012. Wrappers. Fine binding. 6-1/2" x 7." 28 ll. illus. Limited edition one of 120 numbered copies. Signed by Sgantas. Bound in Barcham Green 140lb DeWint handmade watercolor paper using a woven strip binding designed by Claire Van Vliet. Each leaf folds out to reveal a three-page spread-the digitally printed insect-embellished Roman capital letterforms in black and white on the left and in color on the right with the field-guide descriptions in between is printed letterpress. All housed in cloth clamshell with printed paper title label on the spine. A fine copy. This is an engaging collaboration between Sgantas and Van Vliet describing common garden pests and plants with information ranging from "common habitat" to "natural control." Simultaneously delightful and useful with consultations from entomologist Trish Hanson as well as gardeners Mark and Jan-Michael Sgantas. Janus Press unknown
1975réf. 21723Newark VT: The Janus Press 1975. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by Johanknecht the entire edition. Fine copy. Large 8vo original illustrated wrappers. Fine copy. The Janus Press unknown
1986réf. 11007West Burke VT: Janus Press 1986. Broadside. Broadside. 20-1/2" x 14." Limited edition one of 160 copies. Printed in blue in 8 and 12 pt Helvetica on handmade paper by McGregor-Vinzani Schumann's relief cut in rainbow roll from gold to yellow-green. A Fine copy. Ruth Fine The Janus Press 1981-1990 p. 46. Janus Press unknown
réf. 10880Newark VT: Janus Press 1992. Broadside. Broadside. 24" x 17." Limited edition one of 90 copies. Signed by Lopez. Printed dry in black and blue on pulp painting landscape made from kozo gampi and abaca fibers. A fine copy. A beautiful except from Lopez's Arctic Dreams the pulp painting is a inspired illustrations to Lopez's sentiment: "Whatever evaluation we make of a particular stretch of land no matter how accurate or profound it finally proves inadequate. The land retains an identity of its own still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to approach with an uncalculating mind with an attitude of regard. To try to sense the range and variety of its expression-its weather and colors and animals. To intend from the beginning to preserve some of the mystery within it as a king of wisdom to be experienced not questioned. And to be alert for its openings for that moment when something sacred reveals itself within the mundane and you know the land knows you are there." Fine Janus Press - Fifty Years p. 46. Janus Press unknown
1991réf. 10453Newark VT: Janus Press 1991. Broadside. Broadside. 20" x 14-3/8." Limited edition one of 100 copies. Pulp painted with masonite relief cut by Peter Schumann and text set in 8 line Clarendon Condensed wood type with colophon retreating into the pulp painting being set in 10 pt Trump Mediaeval italic. Fine copy. A beautiful broadside wonderfully designed using pulp painting by Van Vliet for the base. Schumann's cut at the bottom with the text stacked vertically. An engaging design with Sappho's evocative poetry here translated from the Greek by Johanna Prins. Fine Janus Press - Fifty Years p. 45-6. Janus Press unknown
1982réf. 10456Newark VT: Janus Press 1982. Broadside. Broadside. 20" x 14." Limited edition one of 550 copies. Updike's prose printed in 28 and 36 pt Trump Mediaeval capitals. Van Vliet's woodcut in rainbow roll from orange to blue all on Barcham Green Boxley paper. This from the printer's archive it was once framed for an exhibition and there are small tabs on the verso; very light foxing. A near fine copy otherwise. A beautiful sentiment from Updike attractively designed and illustrated by Van Vliet. The broadside was commissioned by Beverly Lynch for the American Library Association. Ruth Fine The Janus Press 1981-1990 p. 45; De Bellis & Broomfield A95.a. Janus Press unknown
2006réf. 10457Newark VT: Janus Press 2006. Broadside. Broadside. 22-1/2" x 15." Edition unknown. Collage broadside with a facsimile of the U.S. Constitution on a cream laid paper across which is laid the printed line: "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!" Beneath the facsimile is a description. A fine copy or nearly so. This was printed by Van Vliet and Ellen Dorn Levitt at the Janus Press for the 219th Anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. It relays an unfortunate outburst by then President George W. Bush in an Oval Office meeting between Republican Congressional leaders discussing the renewal of the USA Patriot Act in November of 2005. And while this was a moment in time the sentiment remains relevant in terms of the continued degradation of the founding document in the subsequent decade. Janus Press unknown
1989réf. 11003Newark VT: Janus Press 1989. Cloth. Very Good binding. 7-5/8" x 7-5/8." 18 pp. Limited edition number 12 of 175 copies. Signed by McPherson Van Vliet and the host of contributing artists. Bound in printed cloth over boards with a removable paper spine allowing the book to be expanded out accordion-style; in publisher's clamshell box. An exceptional copy in a very nice clamshell but for some minor staining to the front panel. The front cover recalls a quilt with printed with squares and diamonds within a solid border; the rear cover is the same design but with different colors. To open the book one gets the echo of the geometric construction of a quilt but without any predictability. Each leaf is cut out in different and random shapes; and the colors are as variable as the shapes. An innovative structure a calling card for Van Vliet's Janus Press this is a delightful and unexpected book that can be leafed through or if the removable printed spine is pulled out from where it slots into the boards it can be expanded in accordion fashion. Fine. The Janus Press 1981-1990 p. 23 42. Janus Press unknown
1989réf. 21835Newark VT: The Janus Press 1989. First edition. One of 175 numbered copies signed by McPherson Claire Van Vliet and others involved in the production. Very fine copy. Square 8vo irregularly cut colored papers bound accordion-fold original patterned cloth publisher's cloth clamshell box. Very fine copy. The Janus Press unknown
1990réf. 21825London and Newark VT: Gefn Press / Janus Press 1990. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies signed by Johanknecht and Meynell the entire edition. Very fine copy in a custom tray case. Small oblong folio 9 line cuts by Susan Johanknecht and 6 photographs by Susan Johanknecht and Katharine Meynell one fold-out original vellum-backed split boards covered with South of the Thames plaster mixed with acrylic wrapped in publisher's linen napkin with linen tie. Very fine copy in a custom tray case. Gefn Press / Janus Press unknown
1985réf. 21724Portland and West Burke VT: Trace Editions / The Janus Press 1985. First edition. One of 150 copies signed by McPherson & Van Vliet out of an entire edition of 550. Fine copy. Square 8vo original patterned cloth over boards printed paper spine label. Fine copy. Trace Editions / The Janus Press unknown
1976réf. 21722West Burke VT: The Janus Press 1976. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies printed letterpress with the lithographs printed from the stone signed by Van Vliet the entire edition. Very fine copy. 8vo original printed hand-made wrappers by Jim Bicknell. Very fine copy. The Janus Press unknown
1977réf. 21714Newark VT: The Janus Press 1977. First edition. One of 75 copies the entire edition. Spine panel faintly sunned otherwise a fine copy. Large 8vo original cloth over boards original lithograph by Claire Van Vliet over front cover printed paper spine label. Spine panel faintly sunned otherwise a fine copy. The Janus Press unknown
2025réf. 10907Gefn Janus and Plowboy Presses 2025. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. Accordion. 9-1/2" x 4-3/4" closed. 12 pp. Limited edition one of 100 copies. Signed by Johankneckt Van Vliet and Miller-Brown at the colophon. As issued in stiff wrappers of Barcham Green India Office illustrated with an image of Bach's last known musical score the unfinished Fugue of The Art of the Fugue. The accordion style structure designed by Van Vliet folds into 12 unnumbered pages that read parallel to the folds recto and verso. All housed in a handmade paper slipcase with "fugal" printed on the spine. A fine copy. A wonderful collaboration between Susan Johanknecht Claire Van Vliet and Andrew Miller-Brown. Inspired by Bach Fugues Johanknecht's poem is printed on the recto of accordion-fold. As Van Vliet and Miller-Brown were puzzling over the project last fall it became apparent that the lines could be read aloud in any order. This morphed into the accumulating text on the verso. True to the musical definition of a fugue this presentation of the poem develops through repetition and interweaving. A wonderful homage to the musical form and to Bach in particular; all the while developing into something that is not merely an homage. Gefn, Janus, and Plowboy Presses unknown
2013réf. 11567Newark VT: Janus Press 2013. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. 6-1/2" x 7." Limited edition one of 120 copies. Accordion fold with 8 panels 4 of them are fold-down pages. Each of the four page-spreads include letterpress text in various typefaces and colors which fold-down expanding the canvas of words sayings and accusations including a catalog of U.S. Senators and Representatives of the 111th Congress who became lobbyists-a list that fills the fold-down page in a small font; these opposite a lithograph by Van Vliet each lithograph is titled by the top word on the opposite page: Propagandist Lobbyist Banker Joe Public. Bound in gold paper repeated printed with the word "Greed" and all housed in gold slipcase. A fine copy. In a contemporary newspaper article in the Burlington Free Press Candace Page relates an interview with Van Vliet: "She picks up dummy of GREED a slim volume that will sit inside a glittery cover of gold paper. It opens like an accordion to display four Van Vliet black-and-white lithographs of distorted faces: A banker a lobbyist a newscaster she says 'and this one on the end the sap John Q. Public us.'" Van Vliet continues in the Page interview: "The word 'greed' will be printed multiple times on the cover in heavy unevenly inked type as though it were printed contemptuously by some greedy person with no respect for the written word. The paper is not handmade - that would be too good for the book. Instead it is 'slick nasty machine-made paper' she says. The edges of the gold cover will be sharp 'because greed is not a comfortable subject.'" There is a wonderful irony that the lithographs employed in Greed were originally drawn for an edition of Kafka decades before that just weren't quite right for the project. Here they are perfect! This is a striking book a political book one might say an angry and defiant book. Van Vliet's politics being informed by the McCarthy era during which she was a student she admits to having distrusted the powerful ever since. This edition sold out very quickly and is now rare in commerce. A book that was is and will always be relevant. Janus Press unknown
2020réf. 10966Newark VT: Janus Press 2020. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. Octavo. 2 71 3 pp. illus. Limited edition one of 120 numbered copies. Sewn longstitch with three different colors of thread into St. Armand Papeterie's Canal paper with small printed embellishment on front cover. Letterpress printed in black and brick red on Canaletto paper. Strikingly illustrated with photographs ink knife images and collages all of which are digitally printed many are folding. In card slipcase with printed paper label on the spine. A fine copy. A remarkable collection Luck's lyrics are by turns searching defiant and resigned but always personal and human "I thought when I threw away the bus transfers / I used again and again / I would lose this turbulence / in the coming and going / from here to there." A wonderful book of poetry wonderfully illustrated by Luck; and here beautifully designed and printed in the inimitable fashion of the Janus Press. And few Janus Press books are issued without some novel playfulness or unique element to their structure. Here a three-leaf section with short "grook" poems one on top and one on the bottom of each page that has a horizontal cut across the middle so the top and bottom of each leaf turn independently allowing the reader to navigate these several poems in a less prescriptive manner. Janus Press unknown
réf. 10461Janus Press 1975. Broadside. Prints. Sizes vary from 11-1/2" x 8" to 15" x 11-1/4"; but most are 12-1/2" x 10." Limited edition prints and artist's proofs. 29 lithographs and 10 relief etchings and 1 woodcut from 6 works all housed in Janus Press-issued cloth clamshell with printed title label on the spine. Contents contained in five paper portfolios: 1 3 lithographs from Parables and Paradoxes Janus Press 1963; all denoted as artist's proofs and signed by Van Vliet on recto or verso. Minor foxing to one lithograph else fine. 2 8 lithographs from Conversation with the Supplicant Janus Press 1971 printed by Eystein Hanche-Olsen at SKHS Oslo; all are noted to be from an edition of 20 or artist's proofs; each signed by Van Vliet. Fine. 3 10 lithographs labeled The Tower of Babel: An Anthology Janus Press 1975 printed by Eystein Hanche-Olsen at SKHS Oslo; 8 are noted to be from an edition of 20-35 as well as 2 not used in the book; also included in a woodcut by Van Vliet for this work numbered 12/20. All are signed by Van Vliet. Fine. 4 The balance of the illustrations for The Tower of Babel being 9 lithographs in a folder titled: Builders of Babel: Proverbs - Geneva Bible 1560; all being signed and hand-numbered 6/20 by Van Vliet. Fine. 5 finally 9 relief etchings printed by Jerome Kaplan for Kafka's Der Kubelreiter / The Bucket Rider Janus Press 1972; all signed and hand-numbered 15/20 by Kaplan; as well as one relief etching by Van Vliet for A Country Doctor Janus Press 1962 signed and hand-numbered 1/8 by Van Vliet. A wonderful collection of lithographs from the artist's archive. Janus Press unknown
réf. 10460Janus Press 1975. Broadside. Prints. Sizes vary but most are 12-1/2" x 10." Limited edition prints and artist's proofs. 19 lithographs and 4 relief etching from 4 works all housed in Janus Press-issued cloth clamshell with printed title label on the spine. Contents in three paper portfolios: 10 lithographs labeled The Tower of Babel: An Anthology Janus Press 1975; a mixture of artist's proofs and lithographs from a numbered edition including two not used in the book; prospectus for the book is laid in. The second portfolio contains the balance of lithographs used to illustrate The Tower of Babel: 9 lithographs titled Builders of Babel: Proverbs - Geneva Bible 1560; all are artist's proofs. Printed in Oslo by Eystein Hanche-Olsen at SKHS each of these 19 lithographs are signed by Van Vliet. The final portfolio contains 3 of 10 relief etchings printed by Jerome Kaplan for Kafka's Der Kubelreiter / The Bucket Rider Janus Press 1972 as well as one relief etching by Van Vliet for A Country Doctor Janus Press 1962. One lithograph with small crease to the bottom corner of the margin else all are fine in a generally Very Good or better clamshell. All the Van Vliet illustrations are signed by her and most with title A/P denotation or limitation and number on the verso. The three Kaplan relief etchings are unsigned. A wonderful collection of lithographs from the artist's archive. Janus Press unknown
2008réf. 9780Newark VT: Janus Press 2008. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. Quarto. 65 3 pp. illus specimens. Limited edition one of 200 numbered copies. Letterpress printed from polymer plates on Finale paper the last paper made at Hayle Mill. Longstitch binding in wrappers with printed paper title label on the front cover. Housed in a clamshell box containing a letterpress printed three color map of "Loose Valley 1856 with the Mills on Loose Stream"; a portfolio with 19 photographs reprinted from the Hayle Mill Archives; and a portfolio of sample papers. A fine copy. This remarkable work of scholarship delves into the history of papermaking in Kent along the Loose Stream and the history of this particular firm started by John Pine and sold before a decade had passed to John Green whose descendants would remain at the helm generation after generation until it closed in 1987. At which time it was the "last industrial handmade mill of its kind in commercial operation in Britain" p. 60. But this book is so much more: to look at the care and presentation of this history it is as much an ode to paper and papermaking as it is a mere history. Van Vliet is an artist whose relationship with paper is distinctive among her peers-from her pulp painting and paper making to the fact that most all the books from the Janus Press are bound in thoughtfully designed paper bindings the structure of many being her own invention paper is part of every design aspect. The 16th century epigraph speaks volumes: "I prayse the man that first did paper make the only thing that sets all vertues forth: It shoes newe bookes and keepes old workes awake much more of price than all this world is worth. . . ." It's fitting that this history is printed on paper from the Hayle Mill with a watermark specially designed by Van Vliet for the final paper made at the mill. Janus Press unknown
réf. 9788Newark and Burke VT: Janus Press and Plowboy Press 2022. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Folio. 4 58 4 pp. plates maps illus. Limited edition one of 120 numbered copies. Letterpress printed on Barcham Green Boxley by Andrew Miller-Brown of Plowboy Press. The frontispiece is Durer's northern celestial map. There are 28 illustrations of the constellations from Caspar Vopel's 1534 woodcuts and eight full-page original digital prints of weather by Claire Van Vliet based on her pulp paintings. Additionally there are numerous in-text illustrations some mounted some printed. This is sewn longstitch into pulp-painting covered boards by Katie MacGregor; pocket inside the front cover contains prospectus and Translator's Introduction and Notes. The book is wrapped in a linen-covered chemise lined with Durer's 1515 celestial maps all housed in maple and birchwood slipcase with a lasercut title on the spine. A fine copy. Aratus was born in Soli in present day Turkey in about 315 BCE. Educated in Athens he eventually made his way to the Macedonian court where it is believed he wrote the Phaenomena. It describes in verse the constellations their rotation in the night sky throughout the year various other natural signs and their uses as a calendar and weather forecasting tool for farmers and sailors. For Aratus these sky signs from the constellation Ursa Major to the smallest mouse tossing straw with its paws represent a gift from Zeus to guide human endeavor if only we would take notice. The Phaenomena was enormously popular in its time and afterwards. It inspired many translations some with a liberal dose of revisions and additions as well as many commentaries starting in at least the second century BCE. This edition of the Phaenomena features a verse translation from the Greek by Stanley Lombardo and a new commentary for the modern reader by Mark Breen senior meteorologist and director of the planetarium at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury Vermont. And while it is easy to get caught up in the interesting particulars of the book and its history as well as the particulars of this edition Van Vliet Miller-Brown and their collaborators have created an edition that has reinvigorated this millennia-old navigational and practical treatise. This edition is full of wonder. MacGregor's pulp painted covers are haunting and exquisitely suited for the work. And further the book designed with a mind towards early scholarly works with Aratus's text surrounded by commentary and illustration is a joy to leaf through every page spread is visually engaging from the early section on the constellations to the section on weather that is elevated by Van Vliet's art. After 70 years of bookmaking Van Vliet has not stopped pushing forward in her design and vision. Janus Press and Plowboy Press unknown
réf. 9779Newark VT: Janus Press 2018. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. Quarto. 2 24 ll. illus. Limited edition of one hundred numbered copies. Signed by Dawes and Gregg at the colophon. In a glued leaf binding in printed Canal paper covers. Gregg's drawings have been digitally printed here with Dawes's holographic poems letterpress printed from polymer plates around the drawings. Accompanying this is a smaller french-fold chapbook printed with matching foliation all housed in clamshell with maple wood sides in a slipcase with printed paper label. A fine copy. The chapbook offers a transcription of the holographic poems in the main work-though Dawes's handwriting is plenty legible. Additionally a short "Poet's Note" at the beginning of this chapbook describes his process of writing these poems in response to Gregg's drawings of Vallarta. He writes: "The poems collected here represent the most exciting part of making poems for me which is writing the first draft in that breakneck pace of someone in search of what a poem is offering and doing so with faith that it will eventually reveal itself to me." And of this particular collection of poems Dawes makes a fascinating observation: "I write to understand how I have been moved by the art." A beautiful idea searching for understanding through writing. A wonderful and accidental or perhaps inspired collaboration between the founder of the Vermont Studio Center and the Ghanaian poet. Janus Press unknown
2003réf. 10891Newark VT: Janus Press 2003. Wrappers. Fine binding. 12mo. 2 16 ll. illus. Limited edition one of 150 numbered copies. Double-spine structure within tri-fold binding of stiff printed wrappers in slipcase. Title page and colophon leaves are bracketed by a beautiful translucent tan paper made by Van Vliet from pulp prepared with seawater by Bernie Vinzani. The 16 numbered leaves are printed on the recto only and alternate with odd-numbered leaves bound on the right and even on the left creating a beautiful back-and-forth choreography in order to navigate through the book before the reader reaches Van Vliet's photograph of Governor's Bay on the South Island of New Zealand. All housed in paper-covered slipcase with spine label. A wonderful book by Van Vliet that showcases Loney's evocative lyrics capturing a sense of place at a moment in time but also a sense of being-it is introspective and aware. A beautiful poem wonderfully presented by Van Vliet in a binding that asks the reader to slow down and approach it on its terms. Fine Ruth. Janus Press - Fifty Years p. 59. Janus Press unknown
1975réf. 21716Newark VT: The Janus Press 1975. First edition. One of 75 numbered copies signed by Johanknecht the entire edition. Fine copy. 8vo original unprinted wrappers printed paper spine label. Fine copy. The Janus Press unknown
1976réf. 21729Newark and West Burke VT: The Janus Press 1976. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies the entire edition printed torn cut & bound by Claire Van Vliet at the Janus Press on and of Kozu Fabriano & Canson paper. One of Schuyler's scarcest books owing to the fact that most of the edition went to subscribers of the press with the result that few copies of the book have been available for collectors of the poet. Fine copy. 8vo illustrated with architectural cut-out endpapers fashioned after the topiary gardens at Levens Hall Westmorland England original orange decorated wrappers. Fine copy. The Janus Press unknown
1976réf. 21833West Burke VT: The Janus Press Christmas 1976. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by Siegl out of an edition of 300 with a separate suite of signed prints. Very fine copy. 8vo woodcuts printed in colors original cloth-backed pastepaper over boards publisher's board slipcase. Very fine copy. The Janus Press unknown
