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Peter Thomas, Donna Thomas
Art Library Rare Books Collection N 7433.4 .T5334 D66 2010 box 4.2

Edition of 50, Art Library has copy 36. "The text is the first line of Cole Porter's archtypal cowboy song. Letterpress printed on Peter's handmade paper. The images are vintage printers cuts from an old print shop in Butte Montana. The type is ATF 'Old Town' and is printed with a rainbow roll. The covers are made from Ponderosa Pine that was cut and milled by our cowboy friend Jim Leap in Mariposa California. A piece of saddle leather, with another vintage printers cut blind stamped on it, is mounted on the cover." — From artists' web catalog.

Peter Thomas, Donna Thomas
Art Library Rare Books Collection F 868 .Y6 T56 2000 box 4.2

"150 copies, Art Library has copy 122. Letterpress printed on Peter's handmade paper and hand bound by the printers. Linocuts by Donna." — Colophon.

Peter Thomas, Donna Thomas, Kathleen O'Connell
Art Library Rare Books Collection N 7433.4 .T5334 L47 2015 box 4.2

"Forty-six copies of this book were letterpress printed, hand stamped, digitally printed and hand bound. The design, content, structure, and actual work was a collaboration between Kathleen O'Connell's book arts and letterpress classes at Middle Tennessee State University and visiting wandering book artists, Peter and Donna Thomas." — Colophon.

Peter Thomas, Donna Thomas
Art Library Rare Books Collection TS 1124.5 .T46 1999 box 2.2

Limited edition of 150, Art Library has copy 119

Peter Thomas, Donna Thomas
Art Library Rare Books Collection N 7433.4 .T53342 T55 2003 box 1.2
 

Item consists of an open-top and open-bottom wooden box within a hardcover binding; the box has 5 horizontal, rolling, wooden pins inserted through it, upon which are afixed 5 pieces of paper serving as pages; the book was letterpress printed, on Peter's handmade paper, using old wood and metal types and images of clocks which Donna carved out of linoleum; the pages contain two quotes ("Time is money"--Ben Franklin; "Geological time is not money"--Mark Twain); the 1st quote in appears on the fronts of the pages; the 2nd quote appears on the backs of the pages and is accessed by rolling the pins; a folded U.S. $1 bill appears through the pins from behind the pages.

Peter and Donna Thomas
Art Library Rare Books Collection N 7433.4 .T5334 T74 2012 box 4.2

Edition of 100, Art Library has copy 52. "These Sierra Nevada trees were painted onsite by Donna. Handmade paper by Peter."

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