The Library has curated a very special display with titles from Arion Press, which pairs great artists with great literature to create beautiful books by hand. Arion Press publishes several limited editions every year, each conceptually unique and printed from metal types cast on site.
See the rare display outside the Idaho Room in The Community Library.
Poetry of Sappho
Poems by Sappho in their original Greek
English translation by John Daley with Page duBois; Introduction by Page duBois; 23 wood engravings by Anita Cowles Rearden with twenty prints by Julie Mehretu; signed by the artist.
On Certainty
by Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Introduction by Arthur C. Danto; Edited by G.E.M. Anscombe & G.H. Von Wright. German text translated by Denis Paul and Anscombe. Illustrated by Mel Bochner with 12 prints in black, red and blue ink.
Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
Non-fiction by John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts With six wood engravings by Richard Wagener; A map illustration by Martin Machado; Deluxe edition box by Jonathan Anzalone, and a note on the publishing history by Jeffrey Yang.
