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Katherine Ng. Spirit Vessel. Los Angeles, California: Pressious Jade, 1997. (UCLA Special Collections)

Ng notes that in Chinese cultures evils sprits are stored in a gourd, while in Japanese cultures intoxicating ‘spirits’ are stored in gourds.

  
       
    Jean Gillingwators. Some Women. Upland, California: Blackbird Press, 1995-1997. (artist’s collection)
         
   
                                         
      Kitty Maryatt.

Nous Tissons. Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 2006. (UCLA Special Collections)

Maryatt’s gathering in this collaborative book emphasizes the connection between weaving, typography and the invention of the computer.

                  
                                         
           
                                         
 

Donna Westerman. Eeeeet Zzzd. Newport Beach, California: Saltlick Press, 1981. (artist's collection)

Westerman lives on Newport Bay, and walks her dogs there daily. Here she imagines the sounds, in type, that her dogs hear on their walk. Westerman ventured early into computer graphics, as seen here, where she manipulated photographs, colored them by hand with toothpicks, and then handpress printed the letters.

                
                                         
             
  Marion A. Baker. A Taste of India. Los Angeles, California: Printmaker Press, 1999. (artist's collection)

Baker explains that when she traveled in India, she couldn’t keep her eyes off the women, in their saris. She played with the snapshots, and says, “That’s how I felt. I felt like I was black and white.”

                
                                         
               
                                         
       

Carolee Campbell.
Breyten Breytenbach. The Intimate Stranger. Sherman Oaks, California: Ninja Press, 2006. (UCLA Special Collections) “Breyten Breytenbach charts the geography of the land while, on a shifting plane, he conjures the landscape of the human heart.” Campbell first heard Breytenbach read this poem at a writer’s conference.

                   
                                         
       
  Nancy Bloch.

Tonge’s Travels. Bath, England: The Old School Press, 2001. (artist’s collection)

The text is the diary of an Oxford undergraduate touring the Mediterranean by boat in 1857. Sewn on cords and bound half leather by Nancy Bloch. Afghani bookmark.

      
           
Jill Littlewood and Angela Moll. [Untitled.] Santa Barbara, California: Littlewood Studios, 2006. (artist’s collection)

One of three, each unique. Littlewood and Moll, a fibre artist, alternate pages of paper and cloth in this book, as a collaborative conversation related to journaling.

 
 
 
Bonnie Thompson Norman.

Word House. Seattle, Washington: The Windowpane Press, 1999. (Clark Library UCLA)

Like so many of Thompson’s pieces, this is a collaboration.

 
   
     
    Nancy Turner. Girdle Books. Los Angeles, California: Peripatetic Press, n.d. (artist’s collection)

Turner first bound this replica, in leather, of an early modern girdle book in a workshop. When she bound the companion piece from a woman’s latex girdle, she noticed that the fabric stretched to conform to the binding and wooden boards just as nicely as leather.