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Match in a Bottle

Item date(s): 1997

Kurt Gohde  - (drawings by)
Louise Genest  - (bookbinding by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 285mm, Box = 300mm
Binding: Designer binding
Inscription: Signed by the artist and the author.
Edition: #42/50


Place publication: North Andover MA
Publisher: Kat Ran Press
Cat. 060 - C7-7
Exhibition 2017; 2019

Additional notes:
See Joshua Heller - A Spring 2009 List - Item 9. [not the special binding; but see other bindings by this binder].

See Joshua Heller - Cat 37, Item 109.

Kurt Gohde made over 800 original drawings with matches, kerosene lamps, 'snaps", gold leaf, gun powder, and cigarette lighters. The title page and poems are each accompanied by one of these drawings.

Unique binding by Louise Genest in full gray Oasis leather laced-in binding with partial exposed spine and sewing. Design of cut-out boards and covering leather. Tooled onlays in relief in marbled papers and tooled onlays in patinated shaded copper leaves. Insertion of brass mesh colored in copper in-between the boards. Exposed sewing on copper wires with exposed wires to add to design. Loose gray threads at top of spine. Top edge painted. Doublures echoing cover board design, in colored Arches chiffon paper with recessed inlays in marbled paper and tooled onlays in colored and lacquered Japanese paper. Binder’s stamp in relief at base of back doublure. Drop-back box of gray cloth and gray marbled paper to a design matching the binding, with copper colored trim to box; title on spine.

See Printinging History, Vol. XXVI, Number 2, p. 54 & 55, for an interesting article by Prof. David Pankow, which illustrates a variant binding.

See also normal edition (GB/3513)

Exhibition notes:
Item 060 - C7-7 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017

Samplings: International Artists' Books and Archive on the Book Arts

JGCBA, WAM

26 March to 6 July 2019

Ref: GB/3523













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