[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Wednesday, 6 October 1999 Volume 09 : Number 731 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jeanne N. Chase" Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:37:23 -0400 Subject: [Baren 6124] Re: sale Congratulations John If the New York library has purchased a copy, surely it will be for sale at some of the better known book sellers, like Barnes and Noble. Anyway, I will certainly look for it. And when I go to New York, which I do frequently, I will look it up. Your prints on Marias Web Page look great!!! Jeanne ------------------------------ From: John and Jan Telfer Date: Wed, 6 Oct 99 12:38:52 -0000 Subject: [Baren 6125] Julio wrote, >There is a warehouse in Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco, where a >fellow keeps hundreds of used cases of lead type. Because of the widespread use of computers in the printing industry, print firms are selling their type letters. A friend and I bought about $200 (Aust.) each of their wooden carved letters of all different styles and sizes, no full sets. We are borrowing each others,too. Ros and I are both calligraphers and have used them in this area. Ros has incorporated hers in her Ceramic pieces as well, but I am yet to use them in my printmaking but given time..... I have also several hundred metal type letters, but these I have been using in my faux postage only at this stage. The wooden letters are beautiful scultural pieces in themselves and I have mine in a printers draw hanging on the wall. Cheers, Jan ------------------------------ From: John Ryrie Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 19:27:06 +1000 Subject: [Baren 6128] Re: NYBook Jeanne you ill not fined this book in a shop its hand made in an edition of only 20 copies. It illustrates in woodcut poems by Melbourne poet Alex Selenitsch and has a unique wooden slipcase made by designer Hamish Hill. Josephine there is a copy of this book in the national Library of Australia in the ACT if you ever get down that far. I am quite fond of Ovoid and have quoted his work. in some of my prints. I was able to get 10 sets of wooden type two years ago it ranges from 2'' to about 8'' high. It took me years of asking an searching to fined it. John Ryrie ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V9 #731 ***************************