I Will Eat a Piece of the Roof and You Can Eat the Window.
by SCHANILEC, Gaylord. DUFRESNE, John
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About This Item
[Stockholm, Wisconsin]: Midnight Paper Sales, 1999. No. 38 of 220 copies signed by the author and the artist. Double-page colour wood engraving and 3 colour wood engravings in the text by Gaylord Schanilec. Handset in Joanna Monotype with Delphian Open titling. Printed on Zerkall paper. Pp. 64. 12mo., original blue cloth backed Curwen patterned paper covered boards with wood engraved title label to upper cover and printed title label to spine, housed in the original blue cloth edged, red paper covered slipcase. A fine copy.||A book in three parts, the last of which is the story. The first two parts illustrate where the story comes from, and offer a unique insight into the process of writing fiction.
Schanilec writes: “I printed a broadside for the Hungry Midnight Broadside Series with prose by novelist John Dufresne. The subject was Fluellon Fontana, whose job was making bottle trees. He collected empty bottles, dyed them wild indigo, and when the wind blew, you heard the captured spirits moaning inside the bottles. Interesting character. I introduced him into the world of my daughter’s bedtime stories, and he soon became a regular. When I suggested we do a book together, John enthusiastically accepted. I Will Eat a Piece of the Roof and You Can Eat the Window is the result of our collaboration”.|Quarter to Midnight, A.185.
Schanilec writes: “I printed a broadside for the Hungry Midnight Broadside Series with prose by novelist John Dufresne. The subject was Fluellon Fontana, whose job was making bottle trees. He collected empty bottles, dyed them wild indigo, and when the wind blew, you heard the captured spirits moaning inside the bottles. Interesting character. I introduced him into the world of my daughter’s bedtime stories, and he soon became a regular. When I suggested we do a book together, John enthusiastically accepted. I Will Eat a Piece of the Roof and You Can Eat the Window is the result of our collaboration”.|Quarter to Midnight, A.185.
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- Bookseller
- SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8622
- Title
- I Will Eat a Piece of the Roof and You Can Eat the Window.
- Author
- SCHANILEC, Gaylord. DUFRESNE, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Midnight Paper Sales
- Place of Publication
- [Stockholm, Wisconsin]
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Schanilec;Wood Engravings;John Dufresne;Midnight Paper Sales Book,Artists’ & Fine Press
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