My mighty journey: a waterfall's story. Words by John Coy and pictures by Gaylord Schanilec
Saint Paul: Midnight Paper Sales, 2018. Edition limited to 40 copies (actually 41), large oblong folio, 36 leaves, 16 color illustrations mounted on handmade paper, with text printed on verso, and interleaved with protective translucent blank sheets; printed colophon sheet mounted to final leaf of handmade paper; bound in suminagashi paper over boards, sewn on 10 cords, with uncovered spine, revealing sewing structure. The images were printed using blocks made from material collected along the banks of the Mississippi River where the waterfall traveled up the river gorge. The blocks also include wood cuts, wood engravings, and the occasional photo polymer plate. Images were printed on Mohawk Superfine paper, and text on handmade Cave paper from handset ATF Bernhard Gothic foundry type. The suminigoshi cover art was created by Amanda Degener. Issued in a cloth-covered clamshell box (61 x 71 x 6 cm). A text for children, but not a children's book, about the 12,000-year journey of Saint Anthony Falls, the only major waterfall on the entire Mississippi River, from Saint Paul to its current home in Minneapolis." Item #54594
Price: $12,500.00
