The Yellow Barn Press

Council Bluffs, IA: The Yellow Barn Press, 2001.

Folio. 12 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches. (xviii), (124) pp. Half-title, title page printed in black and red, 22 color plates (1 folding), 58 illustrations, index; text clean, unmarked. Black oasis goatskin spine, John DePol-designed patterned paper over boards, brown leather spine label titled in gilt, opaque glassine dust-jacket, housed in a clamshell box covered in black cloth with printed paper spine label with an additional paper spine label laid-in; binding square and tight. Original prospectus included. GIL123-002. Fine.

LIMITED EDITION of 175 copies, this is copy number 74, designed and printed by Neil Shaver, composed in Monotype Perpetura by Michael and Winifred Bixler in Skaneateles, New York, printed on Zerkall paper. Binding at Campbell-Logan Bindery, calligraphy by Jerry Kelly. Neil Shaver (1924-2019) founded the Yellow Barn Press in the 1960s. He started with poetry books in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but focused his fine press printing efforts on books about printing and books about books in the mid-1980s. Jack Walsdorf and John dePol (1913-2004) were important collaborators throughout the years. 72 copies OCLC.