On Rooks

Folio in 3s. 12 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches. [36] pp. Half-title, photographic prints throughout, titles of the poems printed in periwinkle ink; text clean, unmarked. Quarter dark-green French goat-skin spine, boards covered in a decorative English paper, end-leaves of pure Belgan flax; binding square and tight. SIGNED by both Carolee Campbell and Dennis Phillips. Includes the original prospectus. PN216-001a. Fine.

LIMITED EDITION of 75 copies, this is number 57; 8 additional copies hors commerce. Design, presswork, and binding by Carolee Campbell at the Ninja Press. Type is hand set Van Dijck with Felix Titling for display, printed on dampened Charter Oak handmade paper from Barcham Green Hale Mill in Maidstone, England. Photographic images by Carolee Campbell printed digitally by Karen Skove Chu and printed on Japanese Asuka washi paper. Contains a set of splendidly rich poems that record the minutiae of the moment, moving from micro to macro throughout. Accompanied by 23 photographs taken by Carolee Campbell that do not so much illustrate the text as act as an ambient penumbra.