Yellow Cab Quartet (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. "YELLOW CAB QUARTET" by Olivia Laing and Anne Fewster, Self-published, 2012. Number 74 in a limited edition of 100. "YELLOW CAB QUARTET" is a limited edition letterpress printed book produced in collaboration between the writer Olivia Laing (author of fiction and non-fiction, including "The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone" (2016), "Crudo" (2018), and "Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency" (2020)) and the artist-printer-designer Anne Fewster. Hand-set in metal type and letterpress printed by Anne Fewster using an Adana "EightFive" press. Images reproduced from monoprints by Anne Fewster. Thread-bound gutter. Design by Anne Fewster and Olivia Laing. The book traces four tiny true stories about the poets and writers F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Berryman, Frank O Hara, and Robert Lowell in New York. Fewster has written how a few summers prior to the book s publication she transported a full fount of 48 point Franklin gothic from New York City: "This heavy sans serif typeface, suggestive of billboards and newspaper headlines, underpins Yellow Cab Quartet." Fewster continues: "A series of monotype drawings forge associative meaning across the thread-bound gutter, softly ushering interpretation. Urban canyons, alcohol-soused taxi journeys, monochrome portraits, the New York School. On the threshold mediating between text and reader, the paratexts of Yellow Cab Quartet inscribe contextual significance, reiterating and amplifying the verbal. The book is not a transparent container of ideas." Produced in a limited edition of 100. This is number 74. The number is handwritten (by Laing or Fewster?). Nearly as new. Some slight curling at the corners. Impress at the bottom of the cover (see pictures). This copy was found at a bookstall on the Hackney doorstep of my neighbour at the time, the pop singer Bat For Lashes. It is infused with the smell of, I think, bergamot.