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xyxx by Kimberly Warner and David McLaughlin xyxx is a book of iPhone photographs by Kimberly Warner and David McLaughlin, a "living visual, open ended love letter between two slightly twisted lovers who would rather take pictures with their phones than talk on them." xyxx is limited to images shot and manipulated with the iPhone and iPhone apps only. No computers. No photoshop. "We started playing ping pong with snaps throughout our days via email whether we were half a world apart or walking next to each other in our neighborhood...an ever evolving game of tag with no rules or expectations other than to simply be present." The 200 page full-color book was printed by Digicraft, Portland, Ore., and bound and trimmed by Publication Studio in a two-volume launch edition of 20, signed and numbered.
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I Look Up, Volume One, 1997 to 2000 by Mina Totino Edited by Kathy Slade $35, softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Complicity (stories) by Sarah Lippek The stories in this debut collection by Sarah Lippek are disturbing and beautiful. Completely assured and idiosyncratic, Lippek's language compels her characters to actions that would otherwise be unthinkable. Sarah Lippek is a law student in Seattle, Wash.. $18, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Exhibition To Be Destroyed, Again by Helen Pitt Gallery This idiosyncratic but handsome volume, co-published with the Helen Pitt
Gallery in Vancouver, presents a collection of gig posters, exhibition
posters and other ephemera from the wild fusion of punk rock, new art,
performance and political activism that collided in the Helen Pitt/Unit
Pitt/P.I.G. gallery from 1979 to 1984. Many of the posters, which
include a U-J3RK5 gig poster and an advertisement for Attila Richard
Lukacs's first solo exhibition, are reproduced at their original size,
and lovingly bound for scholars and collectors alike.
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A River Story by Anna Odessa Linzer American Book Award-winner Anna Odessa Linzer's new novel tells the story of Fish Town, a self-invented community that took root along the banks of the north fork of the Skagit River, near La Conner, Washington. The story is told by a young woman named Rose, recollecting her childhood, and an older man, Leo, recalling his late-in-life romance with both the place and the people of Fish Town. Anna Odessa Linzer is a poet, prose-writer, and long-distance cold-water swimmer. Her first novel, Ghost Dancing was published by Picador USA.
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Berlin Childhood circa 1900 by Walter Benjamin This book of new research and commentary by Carl Skoggard brings philosopher Walter Benjamin's engaging autobiographical text into a new translation that is faithful to Benjamin's voice. Berlin Childhood circa 1900, Skoggard writes, "conjures Benjamin's earliest years in a series of mysterious tableaux. But it also reflects an urgent moment in his adult life—one that posed challenges to everything he had thought and felt previously." Our Jank Edition is illustrated with thirty black & white photographs and includes a foldable, color map of Berlin, circa 1900, offset-printed by Container Corps, Portland, Ore. $22, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Owner of This World by Shawn Records Owner of This World is a book of photographs made by Shawn Records during the four months that his son, Max Records, spent working as an actor on the set of Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze's film adaptation of the Maurice Sendak classic. Max was nine-years old at the time, and neither he nor his family had been involved in the film industry before. Records, the elder, is convinced that the book will disappoint anyone looking for insight into the film or the filmmakers and offers it as a manifestation of his own anxieties; a collection of fears and reassurances, upon letting his son out into a world that is beyond his control. The book is available in a softcover edition for $45, or in softcover with a signed archival inkjet print of your choice (8" x 12" on 11"x 14" paper) for $120. Inquire for prints at other sizes. 54 photographsInterior page samples are: 1 (page 2), 2 (page 6), 3 (page 26), 4 (page 61) $45, softcover; $120 softcover with archival print. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Weekday (issue no. 1) by editors: Patricia No, Alex Felton, and Brett Heiney Weekday is Publication Studio's occasional journal of new writing. Contributors to issue no. 1 include Charles Boardman; Christine Hou; Jae Choi; Geoffrey Sanborn; Charles Bernstein; Jon Raymond + Todd Haynes; Arnold Kemp; Molly Young; Laura Jaramillo; Robert Kelly; Theodore Wheeler; Patrick Tesh; MacKenzie Courtney; Thomas Shepherd; Luc Sante; Jenny Hendrix; and Alex Felton. $14, softcover, $9 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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174 Birds by Sarah Meadows Portland artist Sarah Meadows found photographs of birds and hands. $25, softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Night Pharaoh by Rafael Oses
This epic poem by Rafael Oses
has been typeset by Cumbersome Multiples and illustrated with woodcuts by Portland
artist Daniel Duford. This limited edition of 100, printed and bound by
Publication Studio in August, 2010, includes an audio recording of Rafael Oses reading his poem and a limited-edition letterpress jacket by Tracy Schlapp of Cumbersome Multiples, who also designed the book. $20 This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Letters to the Pacific by Aaron Peck Aaron Peck's second book quotes Gertrude Stein in its epigram: "Act so there is no use in a center." These eleven letters, sent by the author from New York back to "the Pacific" during a one-year study at City University of New York, articulate the complex traffic between the many geographical edges that shape a life. In this volume the letters have been annotated by artists Adam Harrison and Dominic Osterried, who also designed the book. With 243 black & white illustrations. Aaron Peck is also the author of The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis, published by Pedlar Press of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and bootlegged in 2009 (with the author's permission) by Publication Studio.
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The Saddest Joke by Matteah Baim and Colter Jacobsen The Saddest Joke is a collection of correspondences (primarily through snail mail) between Matteah Baim and Colter Jacobsen over several years. Maybe they are sketches to help raise the spirits with a meditative chuckle. Or maybe its like if you found a sketchbook for a failed comic sketch, this would be that book. $25 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Allone Co. Editions |
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Alexander — Bell — Cooper — McCracken — Valentine (1971) by Edmonton Art Gallery In July 1971 the Edmonton Art Gallery (Edmonton, Alberta) and the Ace Gallery (Vancouver, BC, and Los Angeles, CA) published this catalog of new work offering "a close examination of the use of the colour black" by five Los Angelenos: Larry Bell, John McCracken, DeWain Valentine, Ron Cooper, and Peter Alexander. Publication Studio's facsimile edition was made with artist Stephen Lichty in June of 2010. $25, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Heather and Ivan Morison by Open Satellite Publications The second in Open Satellite's new publication series documents "Frost King," an original installation by Heather and Ivan Morison, curated by Eric Fredericksen at Open Satellite in Spring, 2010. This full-color catalog includes new fiction by Heather Morison, a photographic essay by Open Satellite director Yoko Ott, an essay by Eric Fredericksen, and an interview with the Morisons by Jen Graves, art critic at the weekly newspaper, The Stranger. The catalog is available from Open Satellite in a limited edition with an original frottage by the Morisons bound into the catalog (edition of 100, available here) or in a plain edition from Publication Studio. $30, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Affidavit by Jamie Hilder In 2008, Jamie Hilder, a Vancouver, BC, artist and critic was trained as a "Downtown Ambassador" by Genesis Security, a firm hired by that city's downtown merchants to make downtown public space more accommodating for their commercial needs. Hilder soon quit the program and kept his uniform so that he could assist people downtown in ways more to his liking, giving tourists information that the Business Improvement Association wouldn't want them to have: histories of illegal evictions, spectacularized aboriginalities, and civic policies aimed at removing visible poverty from the downtown core. He was arrested during his performance, and was later called as an expert witness when Pivot Legal Society, United Native Nations, and the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users filed a Human Rights Tribunal complaint against Genesis and the Downtown Ambassadors. This is his affidavit. $15, softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Four Books in July by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener Portland artist Sarah Faith Gottesdiener created this suite of four full-color books for an exhibition at Nationale. Gottesdiener writes, "I asked four inspirational women close to me/familiar with me/my art to give me instructions for living. I followed those instructions for one week, at four weeks, and as part of the display at Nationale I am making books inspired by their instructions..." The books comprise paintings, sketches, hand-written texts, and photographs of a ritual carried out by Gottesdiener and her friends in the woods of Oregon. (clockwise, from upper left): Outtakes from a Ritual, Freedom in Repetition, When there is No Map For the Mind, and Collection of Some Thoughts and Poses Pertaining to my Vulnerability/Collection of all Magic Objects Around or on My Person (this last book has two titles, one on front cover and one one on back). $65 softcover, set of four books. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Blush by Philip Iosca Blush is a 400-page book by Portland, Ore., artist Philip Iosca, comprising shifting saturations of pink. It can be read or browsed like a book or flipped through, like a flip book. It is large and heavy, like sculpture, colorful and planar, like a painting, plot-driven, like a novel, and pleasant to touch. The pages selected here are in sequence, but they occur in widely scattered parts of the book. A short video file, here, shows the book in motion. Blush is printed on glossy paper and bound in manila file-folders. $125, softcover This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Lexicon (from Atlas of the Conflict) by Malkit Shoshan Israeli architect Malkit Shoshan restores lost histories by mapping the geography of conflicts in the Middle East since 1948. Her Atlas of the Conflict, to be published in Fall 2010 by 010 Uitgeverij (Rotterdam, Netherlands), documents the ways that urban planning and architecture have been used to carry out oppressive political agendas. In June 2010 Shoshan came to Portland, Ore., for a Publication Studio dinner and discussion of her work. On that occasion we printed a full-color limited edition of the "Lexicon" of her book, of which we have 10 copies remaining (edition of 24).
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How to Look at a Vancouver Special by Keith Higgins In this slim, amply illustrated volume, Vancouver, BC, urbanist Keith Higgins provides a natural history and typology of the "Vancouver Special," a housing type that proliferated from the 1960s through the mid-1980s. Distilled from Higgins's vast online archive, the book ultimately recommends that we go outside and wander the streets of Vancouver to see these very special houses with our own eyes. With 24 black & white photographs. $9, softcover; $5, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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The Collected by Jacqueline Suskin This first collection of poems by Jacqueline Suskin grew from photographs the Arcata-based poet found "in Florida flea markets, on the side of the road, in junk shops, and mainly in the trash." The poems are presented opposite their companions photos in this full-color 54-page collection, printed by Digicraft, Portland, Ore., and bound and published by Publication Studio. $20, paperback; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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no. 1 by M Blash
no. 1 is the first in a series of three books by film-maker M Blash. It combines writing, drawing,
photography and film stills. M writes: "no. 1 is a diary of my first few days back in New York City
after living in my hometown of Portland, Oregon, for four years. The book
documents my emergence into a city I knew well at one time, but that now reads
like a specter of my childhood" no.
2 and no. 3, also by M.
Blash, are forthcoming from Publication Studio. $40, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Round Up by Ari Marcopoulos Ari Marcopoulos assembled this suite of 99 photographs, an occasional record of the people and days in his life, circa 2006-2007. "This is my language," Marcopoulos says of these impulsive, frank, and deftly composed images. $40, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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untitled by Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson painted a mural on the side of our North Portland neighborhood grocery store, The Cherry Sprout. This book collects original studies for the mural, which the artists made by letter-pressing small sketches at Lark Press, also in North Portland, and then hand coloring thirty-one sets that we have bound in dark green file folder covers. Edition limited to thirty-one copies. $45, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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What We Are Learning by What We Are Learning For two years, What We Are Learning issued a monthly compendium of brief reports from several dozen friends, telling what each of them had learned recently. This book gathers their reports into a uniquely compelling narrative that displaces the drama of the individual with the pleasures of the collective. What We Are Learning is one of the most provocative and successful experiments in dispersed authorship that we have seen.
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a pragmatic response to real circumstances by Anne Focke Anne Focke helped create Artist Trust, Bumbershoot, 1% for the arts, Arts Wire, and/or gallery, and myriad other tools for working artists. In this 2006 essay, originally commissioned and published by the back room, she recalls some of these projects and the habits of mind, mix of structure and openness, and rhythms of permanence and impermanence that mark the lives of artists and institutions. $9, softcover; $5, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Meiro Koizumi by Open Satellite This is the first in a series of publications we are making with Open Satellite, a Bellevue, WA-based artist residency and gallery. Open Satellite hosts artists from around the world in one- to three-month residencies leading to exhibitions. The book documents Japanese artist Meiro Koizumi's exhibition, The Corner of Sweet and Bitter. With drawings from the artist's notebooks and new essays by Robin Held, chief curator and director of exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum, Jen Graves, visual art critic for The Stranger, and Yoko Ott, director of Open Satellite, the book also significantly expands the scholarship around Koizumi's work.
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Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture by Lisa Robertson Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture is Canadian poet Lisa Robertson’s lyrical document of a decade or so of transformations in her then-home town of Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Originally published by Clear Cut Press in 2004, we offer it in an especially janky Jank Edition, chopped, cut, abraded, but with sturdy spine and every word legible, in bright yellow file-folder covers. $15, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Yoko + Moon by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener Yoko + Moon is Sarah Faith Gottesdiener's collection of ink and water drawings of Yoko Ono or of the moon. Sarah Faith Gottesdiener is an artist and musician who lives in Portland, Ore. $40, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Revenge of the Decorated Pigs by Lawrence Rinder Revenge of the Decorated Pigs (a novel) is an old-fashioned gay romp through the high stakes world of contemporary
art and commerce, written by the former Whitney Biennial
curator, Lawrence Rinder. The author calls it "a subjective
fever dream." Lawrence Rinder, director of the Berkeley
Art Museum, is the author of numerous essays, stories,
and poems. He often writes collaboratively with his friends. $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Revenge of the Decorated Pigs (limited edition) by Lawrence Rinder San Francisco artist, Colter Jacobsen, has made a limited edition series of covers for Lawrence Rinder’s Revenge of the Decorated Pigs.
Numbered and signed, these unique pieces (bound to the pages of
Rinder’s book), each come with a small tipped-in painting, also by Colter Jacobsen, also unique for each book. Copies are still available for $488. Your purchase is both an
investment in an accomplished young artist and a crucial investment in
our business, Publication Studio. Colter Jacobsen is represented by Corvi-Mora Gallery, London. $488, limited edition softcover. This item originated from: Allone Co. Editions |
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Two Odes of Quiddity and Nil. by Howard W. Robertson Two new poems for the New Year by Howard W. Robertson, author of Ode to certain interstates And Other Poems. "I wake to the river at dawn, and I feel a few million years young." $9, softcover; $5 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Capitalism Inside an Organization by Pravin J. Jain Pravin J. Jain was an executive vice president at Enron International during the years of that company's greatest expansion and catastrophic collapse. In this long essay, first commissioned and published by Clear Cut Press in 2003, he offers a sobering and positive assessment of capitalism's destructive powers and suggests that progressive goals such as social equity, innovation, and better living standards are best pursued through an unsentimental embrace of capitalism, as it was theorized by Adam Smith in the 18th century. $9 softcover; $5 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Convivium by Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Tom Fisher Convivium is a collaboration between visual artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins (who was recently selected for the 2010 Whitney Biennial) and poet Tom Fisher, comprising photographs of Hutchins's sculpture, texts written by Fisher, and fragments of other texts selected by Fisher and Hutchins. The book changes occasionally, as Hutchins and Fisher feel moved or find time to change it. (Some of the interior page images, below, are partial.) $40, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Shoot The Buffalo by Matt Briggs Shoot The Buffalo is Matt Briggs's American
Book Award-winning novel about the slow undoing of a working class
hippy family in the 1970s and '80s. Originally published by Clear Cut
Press, it is available now in a Jank Edition. $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Greatest Sips by Alex Brown and Evan George A lively and informed guide to buying fancy beer by the Los Angeles-based authors of the vegetarian food blog, Hot Knives. The book comes with a "radical Hot Knives bookmark," provided by the authors, with a URL for songs that "go well with the beers." $15, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Where We Live Now by Thomas Sieverts and others Where We Live Now (an annotated reader) presents the work of urban planner Thomas Sieverts in a new English translation by Diana George together with selected
readings in urban theory and history. The readings collected here
inspect indigenous settlement patterns in North America for
pre-European examples of sustainable urbanism that is, in Sieverts’s
terms, “in-between” or decentered. Edited and annotated by Matthew
Stadler. $30, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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California Film: 1996 by Carter California Film: 1996 is New York-based artist Carter's storyboard for an early film project featuring a "fake person," a "furry person." and a chocolate ice cream bar, among other things. Laid out in Polaroids and post-it notes, the storyboard is also captioned by Carter, who created this book in September, 2009, for the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's Time Based Art festival (TBA). Printed in digital color. $40, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Scenes from a Hotel (volume one) by Joey Veltkamp Scenes From a Hotel is Seattle artist Joey Veltkamp's
ongoing series of ink and water drawings from Seattle's Sorrento Hotel.
Volume one focuses on some of the events in the hotel's new "Night
School" project, conceived and organized by Michael Hebb. $12, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Catalogue of Variable Essence by Ashby Collinson and Dana Dart-McLean Catalogue of Variable Essence is a collaboration between Portland, Ore., artists Dana Dart-McLean and Ashby Lee Collinson.
A combination of prose fragments, poetry, and drawing, each copy in the
edition of 10 contains two original paintings by Dana Dart-McLean. $330, limited edition softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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F.W.P.C.Y. by Kristan Kennedy Portland-based artist Kristan Kennedy created F.W.P.C.Y. (meaning "For World Peace Castrate Yourself") with designer Rob Halverson for the 2009 Amsterdam Biennale. It presents her recent work in which newsprint is partially obscured under ink. $40, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Electric Aphorisms by John Roderick Electric Aphorisms is musician John Roderick's
narrative composed in 365 transmissions of 140 characters each. The
book (perfect-bound in distinctive sky blue, lavender, or rose file-folder stock) is
prefaced with an introduction by John Hodgman, composed similarly. John
Roderick also writes and plays music as The Long Winters. $15, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha by Matthew Stadler Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha is a new novel by Matthew Stadler, the author of Allan Stein and Landscape: Memory. In a provincial Mexican capital a well-known expat gringa is found dead on a remote hillside. Narco gangs are suspected, but the real killer might be closer to home. The novel is a “cover” of another book, John Le Carre’s A Murder of Quality
(in the pop music tradition of cover songs, which are new renditions of
old standards). The author explains his precise method in a special
afterword to this unusual book. Interior pages include: 1 (page 1), 2 (afterword page 1), 3 (afterword page 2), 4 (afterword page 3). $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Some, But Not All, of My Clothes by Israel Lund Some, But Not All, of My Clothes is Portland artist Israel Lund's
collection of Xeroxed laundry that he occasionally issues in the form
of a zine. He created this perfect-bound edition for inclusion in
Publication Studio's "Portland Pavilion" at the 2009 Amsterdam
Biennale. The book can be bound in either green legal file-folder stock
or manila file-folder stock (the image to the left is of an interior
page). You can view a short video of the book here. $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis by Aaron Peck The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis (a novel) is Canadian writer Aaron Peck’s
debut, concerning an archivist who goes missing somewhere between
Toronto and Vancouver, B.C. Our edition is bootlegged from the original
Pedlar Press edition, with the blessings of the author and Pedlar Press. $20, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Joy and Reffry by Roy McMakin and Jeffry Mitchell Joy and Reffry is a two-volume, full-color catalog documenting an art exhibition of the same name by Roy McMakin and Jeffry Mitchell,
co-published with Pulliam Gallery, Portland, Ore. Roy McMakin is an
artist and furniture designer. Jeffry Mitchell is an artist living in
Seattle, Wash. Fifteen copies were made and sold during the exhibition. $90, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Greatest Sips (launch edition) by Alex Brown and Evan George To celebrate the January 30, 2010 launch of our finest beer book ever, Greatest Sips, by Alex Brown and Evan George, Publication Studio printed, bound, and packed thirty unique copies in a sealed box that was shipped from Portland, Ore., to Los Angeles, Calif., and back again. To be unpacked under the watchful eye of registered guards in our Portland warehouse, these thirty copies will be stamped, numbered and signed by the Publication Studio printing and binding crew. Greatest Sips (launch edition) is limited to these thirty signed and numbered copies and is available for sale exclusively on this site. $15, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |