2009. Hardcover. One of 100 copies. According to the artist: "Wild Girls Redux: An Operator's Manual is the revisit of a book created almost 12 years ago. The original book, How to Become One of the Original Wild Girls, was designed and printed in 1997. That book is a playful list of imaginary "rules" that "should" be followed to achieve Wild Girl status. The rules are light-hearted, but they have the sting of recognition that most women realize to be sexist in nature."

This new book includes the text from the original Wild Girls book on a single page at the beginning. It builds from the original text with provocative images of women juxtaposed with suggestive text adapted from the Missouri Department of Revenue Motorcycle Operator Manual such as: "1. Wear the right gear 2. Become familiar with the equipment 3. Be free from scratches and adhesions 4. Be resistant to penetration 5. Keep in good condition between rides."

Bound in an accordion portfolio with two pamphlet structures sewn in. Maroon flocked paper (velvet texture) covered boards with black title to front board. It is letterpress printed from photo-polymer plates in Blue Highway, French Cursive, and Cooper Black types on Indian Sunn Hemp paper. Lining paper is Hahnemüle Burga in Fawn. Graph paper and paper doilies are also bound in. A set of stickers is included in a front pocket.

Housed in a yellow office mailing envelope with a decorative an illustration of girls and "important" printed on the front. A printed belly band with the title wraps around the envelope. An inventory tag is printed and attached to the envelope flap. Fine. More

San Francisco: Deeply Game Publications, 2025. Number 16 of 24 copies, signed and numbered by the book artist. This is a fascinating and inventive book by Sara Press, the highly regarded book artist.The work looks at the intersection of neurodiversity and femininity, and VEILINGS is a catalog of best practices for appearing normal and being attractive. Each veil has a label attached with advice about a practice that must be layered on top of one’s natural behavior in order to fit in with neurotypicals. The advice was culled from two types of source material:
1) Masking tips shared by high-functioning neurodiverse individuals in 21st Century discussion groups and publications, &
2) Dating tips from women’s magazines published in the mid-20th Century.

This catalog is printed on loose transparent sheets of paper with designs and taken from the original veil samples catlog titled Veilings, published in 1939. Each page has a small label stapled to the upper right corner with text from one of her sources on how to behave and interact with others in order to be successful. The pages are wrapped in tissue paper with the words "Impress Neurotypicals" repeatedly printed on the page.
Housed inside of a 12” x 8.5” black box with letterpressed title and colophon. There are 30 images and 60 pages. In fine condition.

Sara is a photographer, printmaker and book artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Under her imprint Deeply Game Publications, she has published nineteen interesting and well-designed book works in editions that range in size from 3 to 100 copies. Her projects have looked at neurodiversity, peculiar areas of overlap between nature and culture (for example: dog fighting, feral children, and our co-evolution with snakes); constructions of masculinity and femininity in our culture (e.g. bloodsports, military survival manuals, and mis-remembered fairy-tales), and the relationship between emotional and scientific reasoning.Her work is intended to expand peoples’ capacity for non-dichotomous thinking, which she feels is becoming something of a lost art.Sara’s work can be seen by the public in more than 50 rare books collections including those at the Library of Congress, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and dozens of universities’ collections. ARTBK/041825. Fine. More

Niagara Falls, NY: Carol Schwartzott, 1995. Hardcover. One of 10 copies signed and numbered by the book artist. This is an artist's proof. Carol Schwartzott has been creating artists' books for over twenty-five years. Her work appears in many museums, libraries, and private collections including the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. This intriguing production from Carol is a small artist's book that takes on the theme of male/female relationships and offers a feminist view of life. The book is gocco printed and uses rubber stamps and is xerox copied. In a square plain gray binding measuring 6.5 x 7 inches, with a striking gilt, red, and blue illustration affixed to the front cover. Text pages are in an accordion fold structure with texts,images, some in gilt. The text includes the question " How does one resolve life?" In fine condition. Accompanied by a sheet with the artist's description. Unpaginated [12 pages] ARTB/060625. Fine. More