Pinwheel Pulsar by [Purgatory Pie Press] - 2013

[New York]: Purgatory Pie Press, 1998.. Small octavo (16.5 x 8 cm). 12 panel leporello folded and sewn into printed paper wrapper. Fine. First edition. From a total edition of 144 copies, this is one of 55 copies printed on Johannot rag paper by Dikko Faust, bound in handmade paper. Signed by the designer, Esther K. Smith. "This series of mathematical drawings is based on the growth patterns of plants and the Fibonacci sequence."

New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 1984 One of 150 copies signed by Batalos, Faust, and Esther K. Smith. 6 in. x 5 in. . Letterpress printed by Dikko Faust at the Center for Book Arts (NYC) on waxed Masa Couer paper in Orplid type. Illustrations printed in red, blue, gold, and silver from neoprene plates. A fine copy. Letterpress printmaker Dikko Faust and artistic director Esther K. Smith have collaborated on limited editions, artist books, cards, and prints for over forty years. The press was founded by Faust in 1977. He went on to complete his first two books and the paper for his third, move to New York City, and become the staff letterpress printer at the nascent Center for Book Arts. Purgatory Pie Press merged with the E.K. Smith Museum in 1980.

[New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 1990].. Aluminum and paper construction, contained in 16mm film canister (24 cm diameter), with printed labels on and inside the upper lid. Fine. Copy #35 of an edition planned to consist of 74 copies. Signed by Bartalos, and by Dikko Faust and Esther K. Smith, principals of the press. The construction contains four accordion-fold booklets, letterpress printed on handmade, Khadi jute paper. Each is bound between aluminum covers, which are die-cut into the profile shapes of a cat, duck, crocodile and man's head. They're attached with nuts and bolts to a circular, revolving disk, hinged to a die-cut figure, in an allusion to multi-headed conceptions of Hindu deities. The whole, when folded, is then inserted into the felt-lined film canister, calculated as an ode to Bollywood. "I was in India on this trip with my college roommate, and I was really struck by the industrialization and the modernization of India, juxtaposed with the traditional aspects of it ... It's such an… Read More