1ST ED. 2023
Alice Winchester and Jean Lipman
Treasures of American Folk Art: From the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center
Beatrix T. Rumford and Carolyn J. Weekley
American Folk Painting
Jean Lipman and Mary Black
Good Night Richard Rabbit/ Good Night Little A.B.C.
Robert Kraus, illustrated by N.M. Bodecker
Alice In Wonderland/Peter Pan (Dandelion Library)
Lewis Carroll and J.M. Barrie, edited by Josette Frank, with illustrations by Marjorie Torrey
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
Chicken Soup with Rice
Maurice Sendak
The Dwindling Party
Edward Gorrey
The Gashlycrumb Tinies
Edward Gorrey
20th Century Russian Poetry: Silver And Steel: An Anthology
selected with an introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, edited by Albert C. Todd and Max Hayward
And the Ass Saw the Angel
Nick Cave
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Little Pictures: Fiction for a New Age
Andrew Ramer
Playing With Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Elizabeth Siegel
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated with wood-engravings Fritz Eichenberg
Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Junior Deluxe Editions
Hans Christian Andersen
Grimm’s Fairy Tales: Junior Deluxe Editions
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm
I have a lot of books. Many years ago, when I began to make the books that I owned, I often questioned why I had so many books. They were important to me because I didn’t get rid of them and I moved them with me from place to place. At that time, I didn’t read books so much as I looked at them. Besides the covers and pictures that I loved to lose myself in, I was comforted by the idea of a book, that is, a collection of words, thoughts, pictures, and stories all sandwiched between two pieces of cardboard. I am comforted by the smell of old books. I love finding old photos and notes that I’ve left behind. In used books, I am always excited to find the former owners’ names, inscriptions, birthday notes, highlighted sentences, and abandoned bookmarks.
These books have meant a great deal to me at specific times in my life. They’ve helped me take my medicine, be okay with being a weirdo, be inspired, see the world through weirdo-colored glasses and appreciate it, start smoking Pall Mall cigarettes, be creative, ignore the rules of grammar because that is a way of seeing too, enjoy simple things like breathing, sleeping, looking at pictures, and the taste of hot water, not feel so isolated, develop a dark sense of humor, and feel better about my isolated times of woe because no one is as miserable as a 20th century Russian Poet.