Quarter to Midnight. Gaylord Schanilec & Midnight Paper Sales. A discursive bibliography

Rulon-Miller, Robert

Published by Rulon-Miller Books, Saint Paul, 2011

About this Item

Edition limited to 450 copies, this one of 400 copies constituting the trade edition (there is also an edition of 50 special copies which are numbered and contained a signed wood engraving by Gaylord Schanilec, plus a suite of 12 trial sheets and proofs), 8vo, pp. [8], 134, [1]; illustrated throughout; original midnight blue cloth, printed paper label on the spine. Design and typography by Jerry Kelly. Gaylord Schanilec is widely considered to be the finest color wood engraver of our time. He has produced hundreds of books, broadsides, chapbooks, editioned prints and assorted pieces of ephemera. The bibliography contains an historical introduction by Rob Rulon-Miller which places Schanilec in the fertile Minneapolis letterpress scene from the late 1970s to the turn of the century. He has won numerous awards locally, nationally, and internationally, among which: 2020 John Burroughs Literary Riverby Award for exceptional nature books for young readers; 2020 Minnesota Book Award; 2015 Judges Choice Award at the 2015 Oxford Fine Press Book Fair; 2007 The Gregynog Prize; 2006 Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design; 2005 Judges Choice Award, Oxford Book Fair; 1999 Minnesota Book Award. Seller Inventory # 34301

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Title: Quarter to Midnight. Gaylord Schanilec & ...

Publisher: Rulon-Miller Books, Saint Paul

Publication Date: 2011

Binding: Hardcover

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